Automation Engineer in Belfast

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end engineering, quality services, and management consulting for digital transformation.

Operating in over 25 countries, we help organisations navigate technological change by delivering innovative solutions that create competitive advantage and improve lives worldwide.

Quality Engineering Specialist

This role is focused on backend testing and quality engineering across payment terminal platforms and device management services.

The successful candidate will take ownership of test strategy, automation, and quality assurance initiatives, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical payment solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute quality engineering and testing strategies across complex backend systems.
• Build, maintain, and enhance automated testing frameworks and test suites.
• Perform API, integration, functional, non-functional, regression, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Create and execute automated test scripts while managing test environments and test data.
• Validate payment terminal functionality, device management services, configuration management, and related backend workflows.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Identify, assess, and communicate project risks, issues, dependencies, and defects to relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, and test results.
• Monitor quality metrics and provide clear reporting on system health and test outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to support successful project delivery.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing, process improvements, and quality engineering best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• ISTQB Foundation Certification (preferred).

Essential Skills

• Playwright
• Type Script
• AWS
• API Automation
• Backend Testing
• CI/CD
• Jenkins
• Git Lab

Experience

• Experience testing backend systems, ideally within payment processing, terminal management, or device management platforms.
• Strong expertise in API automation testing with a focus on backend services.
• Hands‑on experience with Playwright, Type Script, Java Script, Java, REST Assured, Cucumber, and Serenity.
• Proven experience developing and maintaining automation frameworks.
• Experience integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and Git Lab.
• Experience testing payment applications on Android POS devices, including PAX terminals, is advantageous.
• Working knowledge of microservices, containerisation, and cloud‑native architectures.
• Practical experience with AWS services and cloud‑based deployments.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery practices and collaboration tools including Git, Jira, Confluence, and Gerrit.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively within distributed teams.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges.
• We empower all passionate technology‑loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects.
• Expleo Academy – enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses.
• Competitive company benefits.
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status‑quo.
• Disability Commitment

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to

• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• Communicating and promoting vacancies.
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required.
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long‑term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.

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