Senior Quality Assurance Engineer in London

Fnality is building the future of financial market infrastructure – creating regulated, blockchain-based payment systems to power tomorrow’s wholesale banking ecosystem. Backed by leading global banks and operating at the intersection of technology, finance, and regulation, we are powering the future of finance, together.

Working at Fnality:

• Be your best: We have a supportive culture that helps to bring the best out of each and every single one of our employees.
• Feel free to explore: Bring your new ideas and help us to solve problems together by joining a community of experts.
• Be part of something bigger: We will support you by fostering an open, honest culture, that enables flexibility and wellbeing.
• Feel empowered: We want you to feel empowered. The nature of our business can help make this a reality.

Fnality is looking for a Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer (who must be from a payments background) who can demonstrate competencies which will enable them to successfully:

• Work in a fast-paced, regulated environment in the financial sector.
• Plan and execute the entire testing process, including test optimization and improvement.
• Communicate and work closely with colleagues in a remote setting, suggesting improvements and highlighting when communication is not at its optimum.
• Encourage a risk culture that is embedded in every policy and process of the company.
• Promote an open and honest company culture, encouraging servant leadership as best practice within the organisation.

Role Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Head of QA in designing, documenting, scheduling, and coordinating test scenarios, engaging with internal and external stakeholders to deliver robust and appropriate tests.
• Bringing together various colleagues and teams to deliver against testing outcomes.
• Writing the scripts required to run tests.
• Supporting the Head of QA on full end-to-end lifecycle of testing including business testing, product testing and operational testing.
• Defining, developing, and performing acceptance tests as part of route to live (functional & non-functional tests) on software received from technology vendors.
• Testing regular updates and releases across several environments including SIT, Pre-Production, and Production.
• Running Fedwire Participant testing including Federal Reserve System upgrades at regular intervals in line with stated requirements.
• Conducting SWIFT testing within MX environments.
• Carrying out business process tests such as disaster recovery and business continuity, including backup and recovery validation.
• Extensive experience in leading and delivering enterprise-scale testing programmes, with a strong understanding of enterprise operations including change management, incident management, regulatory compliance, release governance, environment management, and wholesale payment systems.
• Proven experience designing, developing and maintaining enterprise automation frameworks.
• Strong experience in building and maintaining CI/CD test pipelines, integrating automated testing into release processes using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or equivalent.
• Experience in designing automation strategies that maximise regression coverage while reducing execution time, maintenance effort and operational risk.
• Practical experience leveraging AI-powered tools to improve software quality.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including test automation architecture, API validation, contract testing, service integration testing, environment management and continuous testing.
• Deep understanding of blockchain platforms, digital asset infrastructure, blockchain wallets, regulated financial market infrastructures and systemically important payment systems.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, Operations, DevOps and Architecture teams, as well as with external partners, customers and regulators.
• Experience working closely with Tier 1 Banks, Central Banks and financial regulators, supporting mission-critical production platforms and ensuring high availability and operational resilience.
• Excellent understanding of payments, settlement systems and financial market infrastructure, including real-time and high-value payment systems.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 20022, CBPR+, SWIFT messaging and cross-border payment processing.
• Experience with application performance monitoring, observability, event management and production diagnostics.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in data analysis, trend analysis, root cause investigation and quality metrics to support continuous improvement.
• Working knowledge of enterprise monitoring, logging and operational tooling required to support highly available payment platforms.
• Good understanding of payment system behaviour under stress, resilience testing, capacity planning and market events.

Why should you join Fnality?

We employ curious individuals who thrive working in a fast paced and constantly changing environment, who work best when empowered to drive their own work, and who are not afraid to fail fast and learn quicker.

A bit more about us:

Digital transformation is changing our lives, work, and businesses. While other sectors evolve, financial markets remain slow, fragmented, and siloed. What the world needs now is a future-facing financial system for the digital age.

Fnality Global Payments:

We are building a network of new payment systems that will enable tokenised, peer-to-peer markets.

This role is a UK based role and you must be eligible to work in the UK. Please note we cannot sponsor visas for this role.