Our solution allows companies to open multi-currency accounts, send and receive payments worldwide, and manage cross-border transactions from a single platform. Our mission is to simplify global finance and remove friction from international business operations.
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Remote Global
Full-time
Permanent employee
About Us
Peratera is a UK-based fintech company, founded in 2022 and authorised by the FCA as an Electronic Money Institution. We are building a modern, all-in-one payment platform that enables businesses to manage global payments and financial operations seamlessly.
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
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
Prompt engineering for AI-assisted QA and test automation
Hands-on experience with AI tools for QA 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
Supportive team culture focused on knowledge sharing and ownership
Remote-friendly setup with flexible working hour
Sounds like a match? Send us your CV - we’re excited to get to know you!
About us
Peratera is a UK-based fintech company, founded in 2022 and authorised by the FCA as an Electronic Money Institution. We are building a modern, all-in-one payment platform that enables businesses to manage global payments and financial operations seamlessly.
Our solution allows companies to open multi-currency accounts, send and receive payments worldwide, and manage cross-border transactions from a single platform. Our mission is to simplify global finance and remove friction from international business operations.
www.peratera.com