QA Automation Engineer / Mid-Level SDET | Playwright, C#/.NET, CI/CD | Global Payments & Banking Company Building Its Own QA Function
- Salary: RON 210,000 - 270,000 gross per year (RON 17,500 - 22,500 gross per month)
- Location: Bucharest, hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 from home
- Employment: via a local payroll partner until the company’s Romanian entity is set up
Our long-standing client, an international payments and banking group, is building its own QA function in Bucharest from scratch, and I’m looking for a QA Automation Engineer / Mid-Level SDET to join it. You’ll be part of a team of around nine automation engineers, writing tests in Playwright. C#/.NET is their preference, though they’ll consider strong Python or Java engineers too.
You’ll report to the Head of QA, with a dotted line to the Bucharest site lead, and work directly with developers in two-week sprints. Their estate spans five to ten internal and external systems, so you’ll test web apps, APIs, backend, Kafka event-driven services and some legacy Windows desktop apps, moving between projects on both sides of the business.
Non-Negotiables
- Financial services: payments, SWIFT, banking
- Playwright
- C#/.NET (Python or Java considered)
- SDET background, hands-on coding
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
- AI in your testing work, e.g. generating test cases
What You’ll Work With
- NUnit, with some TypeScript
- Kafka and Azure Service Bus
- Azure Application Insights, KQL
- Kubernetes (K8s), Docker
- IaC: Terraform
- Web apps and legacy Windows desktop apps
- GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry
- TestRail, Jira
Nice to Haves
- API testing: REST, contract, schema
- End-to-end testing across connected systems
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors
- Load testing at high transaction volumes: k6, Artillery, LoadRunner
- Service virtualisation, mocks, stubs
- Azure (AWS also fine)
- BDD: Gherkin, SpecFlow, Cucumber
- Core banking platforms
Why Join / Projects
We’ve worked with this client for several years and placed people across their tech teams. They’re an international business with a strong reputation in payments, and this is one of the more interesting builds we’re recruiting for in Bucharest.
- You’re joining a new function rather than inheriting an old one. They’re replacing an outsourced testing supplier with their own people, and you’ll help shape the culture of a growing tech hub.
- You’ll work across both sides of the business, payments and banking, so you see the whole estate rather than one product.
- They’re building a template for agentic engineering across the software lifecycle, with QA as one of its pillars, so you’ll use AI tooling on the Microsoft stack day to day.
- You’ll sit with developers in a small, collaborative team that moves quickly.
Employee Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday plus Romanian public holidays
- Extra day off in your birthday month
- Private medical cover
- Annual salary review
- Support for training and study
- Long service awards
QA Automation Engineer / Mid-Level SDET | Playwright, C#/.NET, CI/CD | Global Payments & Banking Company Building Its Own QA Function
