QA Engineer

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