The posting
We are seeking a QA Engineer with strong Banking and Financial Services experience and hands-on expertise in Avaloq core banking platforms.The candidate will be responsible for functional, integration, API, database, regression, and UAT testing across banking applications and transaction processing systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse business and system requirements and define test scenarios, test conditions, and quality risks for banking applications.
- Design and execute functional, SIT, UAT, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
- Perform testing of Avaloq core banking systems and validate banking workflows and transactions.
- Validate application functionality across UI, API, database, and backend systems.
- Develop detailed test cases, test data, test scripts, and test evidence.
- Perform API testing and SQL-based database validation to verify data integrity and system interfaces.
- Identify, analyse, and troubleshoot defects; perform root cause analysis and defect triage with development teams.
- Support release validation, production deployment, post-release verification, and incident analysis.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts to improve regression coverage and testing efficiency.
- Work closely with business users, product owners, developers, and project teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
- Maintain testing documentation and contribute to QA standards, automation, and continuous improvement.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Mandatory experience in Banking / Financial Services domain, with strong understanding of banking processes and transaction-based applications.
- Mandatory hands-on experience with Avaloq core banking systems, including implementation, testing, or production support.
- Strong experience in Functional Testing, SIT, UAT, Regression, Integration, and End-to-End Testing.
- Hands-on experience in API testing and SQL/database validation.
- Experience testing complex banking workflows, financial transactions, and enterprise applications.
- Strong knowledge of test planning, test case design, defect management, and release validation.
- Experience with Jira and/or Azure DevOps for defect and test management.
- Exposure to test automation using Playwright, Python, or similar automation frameworks.
- Experience working in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience supporting production incidents, application releases, and post-production validation.



