Finastra

Associate QA Manual & Automation Engineer

Finastra
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11 hours ago
Pune, IndiaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Plan, design, and execute manual test scenarios for technical and business-oriented DevOps and platform deliverables.
  • Validate application and platform behavior across containerized and virtual machine-based environments.
  • Perform end-to-end testing of Kubernetes deployments, Helm charts, configuration changes, upgrades, rollbacks, and release readiness.
  • Test APIs, platform services, integrations, messaging, databases, search, logging, monitoring, and operational tooling.
  • Validate scaling, resiliency, backup, recovery, failover, and day-two operational workflows.
  • Review requirements, design notes, Jira items, and technical documentation to identify test impacts, gaps, risks, and clarifications.
  • Create and maintain test cases, test evidence, defect documentation, and release-quality summaries.
  • Investigate issues using logs, system behavior, configuration, monitoring dashboards, and collaboration with technical teams.
  • Participate in defect triage, root-cause analysis, regression validation, and production-readiness discussions.
  • Improve QA practices, test coverage, acceptance criteria, and repeatable validation for DevOps workstreams.

Requirements

  • Experience in quality assurance, system testing, technical validation, or platform/application testing.
  • Strong manual QA skills covering test analysis, test design, execution, evidence collection, and defect reporting.
  • Ability to translate technical requirements into practical test scenarios.
  • Hands-on API testing experience.
  • Understanding of backend systems, distributed applications, APIs, and microservices-based solutions.
  • Hands-on Linux experience and ability to analyze logs or system-level behavior.
  • Familiarity with containerized environments, preferably Kubernetes or OpenShift.
  • Familiarity with Kafka, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging and event-streaming technologies.
  • Exposure to Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar search and indexing technologies.
  • Experience validating integrations across applications, middleware, infrastructure, and platform services.
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex workflows and collaborate with DevOps, development, architecture, and product stakeholders.
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
  • Fintech, banking, payments, regulated enterprise software, payment flows, transaction processing, settlement, or reconciliation experience is advantageous.
  • Exposure to Azure cloud environments, monitoring and observability, security validation, API testing tools, automated testing concepts, or test automation frameworks is advantageous.
  • Basic scripting experience with Python, Bash, JavaScript, or similar languages is advantageous.
  • Experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure-focused organizations is advantageous.

Benefits

  • Unlimited vacation subject to local regulations and business priorities.
  • Hybrid working arrangements and paid time off for voting, bereavement, and sick leave.
  • Employee Assistance Program, Wellbeing Champions, Gather Groups, and monthly well-being events.
  • Medical, life, and disability insurance, retirement plans, lifestyle benefits, and other location-dependent benefits.
  • Paid volunteering time and donation-matching opportunities.
  • Access to inclusion communities and employee participation groups.
  • Online learning and accredited courses through the Skills & Career Navigator tool.
  • Global employee recognition program and regular employee surveys.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAzureBashDockerElasticsearchGrafanaHelmJavaScriptKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPrometheusPythonRabbitMQ

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About Finastra

10,000+ employees

Finastra builds banking software for financial institutions, spanning core banking, lending, payments, and treasury, delivered on-premises and via cloud APIs. It sells licensed and SaaS products and an open platform (FusionFabric.cloud) used by over 7,000 customers, including 80% of the world’s top 50 banks, in more than 110 countries. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Paddington, London, it is privately held.

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