QA Automation Engineer

Quality Analyst
Hybrid Working - London - 2 days a week on site.
Financial Services

Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a Quality Analyst to join them, the ideal candidate has strong experience working with Automation, Playwright/Cypress, Rest Assured, and API Testing.

This role is based in London.
This role will be Via Umbrella.
Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a week on site.

Key Skills and Experience

• 4+ years test automation experience across frontend and API layers.
• Proficient with Cypress or Playwright (frontend), REST Assured or Karate (API testing), and database validation against PostgreSQL.
• Experience building automated regression suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or Jenkins).
• Performance testing capability using JMeter or Gatling - the platform must support ~12,000 concurrent users. Security testing awareness (OWASP top 10, authentication/authorisation boundary testing).
• Experience with BDD/Gherkin for mapping acceptance criteria to automated tests. Accessibility testing (WCAG AA) experience is a plus.
• Must be comfortable testing complex multi-role workflows - specifically the assessor independence requirement where Employee, Manager, and ITA score the same evidence without visibility of each other's scores.

IND_PC3

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.