QA Automation Engineer

Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Department: Engineering

Workplace: on_site

Employment Type: full

Description

Who we are

We’re looking for a QA Automation Engineer to design, build, and scale our automated testing frameworks across multiple microservices.

You’ll work closely with backend developers, SREs, and DevOps to ensure every release is predictable, traceable, and fast.

You’ll drive test automation standards, integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, and mentor QA engineers on best practices in automation and performance.

What you’ll do

·       Design and implement robust automated testing frameworks for RESTful APIs, Kafka events, and UI flows.

·       Develop and maintain automated regression suites integrated into Jenkins and Bitbucket

·       CI pipelines.

·       Validate microservice interactions, including DB, messaging (Kafka), and external integrations.

·       Review and refactor existing manual test cases for automation readiness.

·       Collaborate with SREs to incorporate performance and reliability testing into CI/CD.

·       Monitor and visualize test results with the Allure,with the Allure, Prometheus, and Grafana dashboards.

·       Perform root cause analysis using logs, metrics, and traces (ELK / Loki / CloudWatch).

·       Mentor and guide other QA engineers on automation best practices and coding standards.

Contribute to quality gates before UAT and production deployments.

Requirements

What you bring

·       5+ years of experience in test automation in microservices or fintech environments.

·       Java (TestNG / JUnit 5) — confident coding skills and framework design experience.

·       Strong in REST Assured, Postman, Swagger, Selenium / Selenide / Playwright.

·       Familiarity with Kafka / RabbitMQ, SQL (PostgreSQL), and Test containers.Test containers.

·       CI/CD automation experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.

·       Proficiency in Docker and containerized testing environments.

·       Strong debugging and analysis skills with the Allure,with the Allure, Grafana, and Prometheus metrics.

·       Understanding of OAuth2 / JWT / security flows for API validation.

Preferred:

·       Experience with performance tools (JMeter / K6 / Gatling).

·       Experience in AWS (EKS / Fargate) or similar cloud environments.

·       Familiarity with BDD (Cucumber / Serenity) frameworks.

·       Knowledge of observation and SRE principles.

·       Experience mentoring or leading automation teams.

Benefits

What’s in it for you

·       A front-row seat to build automation for one of Nigeria’s leading digital finance platforms.

·       Opportunity to shape CI/CD quality gates, test analytics, and automation standards.

·       Works with modern stacks: Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS, EKS, Grafana, and Prometheus.

·       A collaborative culture where engineering excellence meets real customer impact.

·       Competitive salary, hybrid work flexibility, and continuous learning opportunities.

·       Room to grow into Tech Lead or QA Chapter Lead roles as we scale.