QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)

About our Client:

Our client is building modern, secure infrastructure for business payments. They help businesses pay any supplier using cards or bank transfers, regardless of how the supplier accepts payment — removing friction from B2B payments and improving cash flow. They operate in regulated financial environments and partner with leading payment networks and banks. Quality, reliability, and security are critical to everything they build.

About Teamified

Teamified is a talent partner helping companies build exceptional remote teams across IT, software, product, and digital innovation. We collaborate with leading enterprises and fast-scaling tech businesses worldwide to help them access world class talent and accelerate growth. With operations across the globe our mission is to make building high performing global teams simple, fast, and cost-effective. Teamified has hundreds of clients with more than 200 engineers, testers, product managers, designers, and technology experts delivering impactful solutions every day

About the Role:

We're looking for a QA Engineer to help ensure the reliability, correctness, and quality of our client's platform. You'll be responsible for designing test cases, executing manual and automated testing, and validating both UI and API-level behaviour across the platform. This role is hands-on and balanced across manual testing, test design, automation, and API testing. You'll play an important role in shaping testing practices as the platform continues to grow.

Requirements

Test Planning & Design

• Analyse product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to define comprehensive test coverage
• Write clear, structured test cases covering functional, regression, integration, and edge-case scenarios
• Maintain test documentation and ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to clarify requirements and identify risk areas early
  

Manual Testing

• Execute manual test cases across web applications and APIs
• Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and unexpected behaviours
• Validate fixes and perform regression testing prior to releases
• Test across different environments (development, test, staging, production validation where applicable)
  

API Testing

• Design and execute

  API test cases

  using

  Postman

• Create and maintain

  Postman collections

  covering core workflows and edge cases
• Write

  automated Postman scripts

  (pre-request scripts, test assertions) using JavaScript
• Validate request/response payloads, authentication, error handling, and data integrity
• Use API testing to support faster feedback loops and reduce reliance on UI-only testing
  

Test Automation

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites using

  Playwright

• Write and maintain automated tests using

  Python

• Identify candidates for automation and prioritise high-value test coverage
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines where applicable
• Ensure automated tests are reliable, maintainable, and provide meaningful feedback to the team
  

Defect Management & Reporting

• Log, track, and manage defects using

  Jira

  , providing clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence
• Work closely with developers to investigate issues and validate fixes
• Provide clear test status, quality metrics, and risk assessments to the team
  

Test Management & Tooling

• Manage test cases and test runs using a test management tool such as

  Qase

• Maintain regression suites across UI and API layers
• Help improve test processes, tooling, and documentation over time
  

Collaboration & Quality Ownership

• Act as a quality advocate within the team
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
• Contribute to improving release confidence and reducing escaped defects
• Help establish and evolve QA best practices as the team and platform scale
  

Qualification and Experience

• Experience working as a

  QA Engineer / Test Engineer

  in a production environment
• Strong experience with

  manual testing

  and test case design
• Hands-on experience with

  API testing

  , including:

• Postman

• Writing automated Postman test scripts and assertions
• Hands-on experience with

  test automation

  , specifically:

• Playwright

• Python

• Experience using

  Jira

  for defect tracking and workflow management
• Familiarity with test management tools such as

  Qase

  (or similar)
• Understanding of software development lifecycles and agile delivery
• Strong attention to detail and a structured approach to testing
  

Nice to Have

• Experience testing

  fintech, payments, or regulated systems

• Familiarity with

  CI/CD pipelines

  and automated test execution
• Experience validating authentication flows (JWT, OAuth, API keys, etc.)
• Basic understanding of

  SQL

  and data validation techniques
• Knowledge of performance, security, or accessibility testing concepts
  

How You Work

• You're detail-oriented and methodical, but pragmatic about risk
• You communicate clearly and constructively with engineers and product managers
• You're proactive in identifying issues and improving test coverage
• You balance UI, API, and automation testing effectively
• You take ownership of quality rather than treating it as a separate phase
  

Benefits

Benefits:

• Flexibility in work hours and location, with a focus on managing energy rather than time.
• Access to online learning platforms and a budget for professional development
• A collaborative, no-silos environment, encouraging learning and growth across teams
• A dynamic social culture with team lunches, social events, and opportunities for creative input
• Health insurance
• Leave Benefits
• Provident Fund
• Gratuity
  

If you possess the required skills and are eager to contribute to our team's success, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Apply now!