QA Automation Engineer (Automation-first)

About Us

At Peratera we believe in the future of digital commerce and the borderless economy. Our products are designed to make digital commerce friction-free, no matter where in the world you operate. The world has gone digital  and the businesses winning in it need payments infrastructure that keeps up.

Our platform combines a full-featured payment gateway with a digital wallet - giving merchants a single, powerful tool to accept payments, hold balances in multiple currencies, and pay out to customers and partners anywhere in the world. We serve some of the most demanding industries in digital commerce: iGaming operators, FX platforms, global e-commerce businesses, and fintech companies who need payments to just work.

We move fast, think commercially, and care deeply about the experience of every merchant on our platform - backed by our authorisation as an FCA-regulated Electronic Money Institution (FRN: 1023849).

Your Mission 

You’ll drive and support the evolving Technology Vision and newly defined CTO strategy, ensure reliability, correctness and scalability of critical payment flows across the platform by combining exploratory testing with automation-first practices. 

Your Tech Environment
You’ll be working in a modern, scalable tech environment built around Java (Spring Boot) and REST APIs on the backend, with React and PHP powering the frontend. Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS, and the platform is designed as a set of distributed services with multiple external integrations, including payment providers.

We follow an API-first, automation-driven testing approach, leveraging tools like Playwright to ensure high reliability and fast delivery across critical payment flows.

What You’ll Do 

Core Quality Ownership 

• Take ownership of end-to-end quality of payment flows (deposit, payout, reconciliation)  
• Validate business-critical scenarios, not just features  
• Identify risks in transaction lifecycle (e.g. callback failures, timeouts)  

Testing and Automation

• Design and execute API-first test scenarios
• Build and maintain automated tests (API + selective UI)
• Develop reusable test components (clients, data builders)  

Integration Testing

• Test integrations and implement automation integration flow with external providers (Open Banking, payment processors)
• Validate async flows (callbacks, polling, retries)  

Debugging and Production Support

• Investigate production issues and reproduce bugs
• Work with logs, DB and API traces
• Support root cause analysis  

Collaboration

• Work closely with backend engineers on testability
• Define acceptance criteria with product team
• Contribute to release quality gates  

Continuous Improvement 

• Help establish regression Testing Strategy  
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (smoke tests, pre-release checks)  
• Improve overall engineering quality standards 
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What We’re Looking For

• Experience with API testing (REST, JSON, HTTP)  
• Strong understanding of backend systems  
• Experience with test automation (Playwright / RestAssured / similar)  
• Ability to debug issues using logs and databases
• Understanding of async systems (callbacks, queues, retries)
• Experience in payments / fintech

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines  

   

Nice To Have 

• SQL / data validation skills
• Experience with distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with AI tools for QA automation

• Prompt engineering for AI-assisted QA and test automation

   

What You’ll Get

• Competitive, market-aligned compensation
• Opportunity to work on a high-impact product with real-world scale
• Modern tech environment and engineering-driven culture
• International, distributed team with a collaborative mindset
• Remote-friendly setup with flexible working hours

• Supportive team culture focused on knowledge sharing and ownership

   

Sounds like a match? Send us your CV - we’re excited to get to know you.