Senior SDET | Playwright, C#/.Net, CI/CD | Global Payments & Banking Company Building Its Own QA Function
- Salary: RON 250,000 - 310,000 gross per year (RON 20,833 - 25,833 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 is hiring Senior SDETs to help shape it. You'll join a team of around nine automation engineers, working alongside developers in two-week sprints.
You'll report to the Head of QA, with a dotted line to the Bucharest site lead. You'll write Playwright automation across web apps, APIs, event-driven services and legacy Windows desktop apps, and help design the CI/CD pipelines it runs in. C#/.NET is their preference, though they'll consider strong Python or Java engineers too.
Non-Negotiables
- SDET background, hands-on coding
- Playwright
- C#/.NET (Python or Java considered)
- API testing: REST, contract, schema
- End-to-end testing across integrated systems
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
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
- Financial services: payments, SWIFT, banking
- Load testing at high transaction volumes: k6, Artillery, LoadRunner
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors
- AI in testing: test case generation, agentic workflows
- Service virtualisation, mocks, stubs
- BDD: Gherkin, SpecFlow
Why Join / Projects
We've worked with this client for several years and placed people across their tech teams. This is one of the more interesting builds we're recruiting for in Bucharest.
- You'll be one of the first in the team, helping set the standards as testing moves in-house from an outsourced provider.
- You'll work across both sides of the business, payments and banking, rotating between projects rather than staying on one product.
- Developers sync with you directly on their changes, so you're part of delivery from the start.
- They're building a template for agentic engineering across the software lifecycle, with QA as one of its pillars, and you'll use AI in your day-to-day work.
- The tech test is practical, and you can use Google and AI as you do on the job.
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
If you're a hands-on SDET who wants to help build a QA team from the start, apply and I'll give you a call.
Senior SDET | Playwright, C#, CI/CD | Global Payments & Banking Company Building Its Own QA Function
