Senior QA Engineer

You will be joining the DB Global Technology team, Deutsche Bank's technology center in Central and Eastern Europe, located in Bucharest. The Private Bank division combines Deutsche Bank's private clients' business in Germany with its international private and commercial clients and Wealth Management.

As a Senior QA engineer, you will work hands-on in a global environment with distributed delivery teams, developing robust new test suites and maintaining existing automation frameworks. You will guide manual QA engineers through their transition to QAA, including identifying training needs, setting development goals, and facilitating continuous learning and knowledge sharing sessions within the chapter.

Responsibilities:

• Design innovative, sustainable solutions which are congruent with the strategic direction of the Bank.
• Provide technical guidance on the testing strategy, design, and implementation of testing frameworks.
• Define and implement best practices, solutions and standards related to your area of expertise.
• Stay current with industry trends and drive the adoption of new technologies and methodologies to solve complex problems.
• Challenge the ‘status quo’ and influence key stakeholders to ensure industry best practice is adhered to within your area of expertise.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, product owners, business analysts and development teams to ensure alignment on technical roadmaps.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of hands-on experience in quality assurance and automation.
• Solid programming skills in Java for developing robust and scalable test automation frameworks and scripts.
• Proven experience with Agile methodologies and SDLC.
• Excellent knowledge of testing techniques (Black Box, White Box, System, Integration, Regression, Performance, Security).
• Hands-on experience with test management and defect tracking tools.
• Good understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle) with the ability to write and execute complex SQL queries for data validation.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, strong independence, and initiative.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English (Business fluency is mandatory).
• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent).

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience in the financial services industry, with knowledge of Wealth Management or other financial products.
• Experience in coordinating testing activities across multiple scrum teams or projects.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Well-being & Benefits:

• Emotionally and mentally balanced: We support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health.
• Physically thriving: We support you in managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive.
• Socially connected: We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and well-being.
• Financially secure: We support you in meeting personal financial goals during your active career and for the future.