QA Engineer – Automation / CI Testing

Remote (UK) | Occasional Team Meet-Ups in Norfolk
6-Month Contract | Inside IR35
Potential Permanent Opportunity

Rate £350 - £450

Cooper Lomaz are recruiting for a QA Engineer to join a global payments technology organisation delivering secure digital and SaaS-based payment solutions to financial institutions, fintechs, and enterprise customers internationally.

This role will support a key transformation project focused on bringing a previously outsourced platform fully in-house, working closely with both UK and US engineering teams to enhance software quality, testing automation, and delivery capability across a modern Agile environment.

The Role

You will play a key role in developing and improving automated testing capability across business-critical platforms within a highly collaborative engineering team. The environment is heavily focused on continuous improvement, scalable delivery practices, and modern CI/CD principles.

The successful candidate will be involved in:

• Building and maintaining automated testing frameworks
• Developing continuous integration and automated testing pipelines
• Acceptance, regression, and integration testing
• Supporting quality assurance across backend services and platform releases
• Collaborating with distributed development teams across the UK and US
• Helping transition systems and testing ownership from third-party vendors into the internal engineering function

Required Experience

• Commercial experience as a QA Engineer / Automation Test Engineer
• Strong experience writing automated tests within CI/CD environments
• Experience building and maintaining testing pipelines
• Strong technical experience with:
  • Python
  • Django
  • Kotlin
  • TeamCity
• Experience working within Agile software delivery teams
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Desirable Experience

• API and integration testing
• Cloud-based environments
• DevOps tooling and deployment pipelines
• Experience working on enterprise SaaS or fintech/payment platforms
• Experience transitioning systems from outsourced vendors to internal teams

Contract Details

• Initial 6-month contract
• Inside IR35
• Fully remote working
• Occasional meet-ups in Norfolk
• Long-term opportunity with potential for permanent transition
• Requirement to complete a DBS and background check on offer (funded by Cooper Lomaz)

This is an excellent opportunity to join a business investing heavily in technology, innovation, and modern engineering capability within the payments and digital solutions space