Senior Automation Test Engineer - Daily Rate Contract
📍 Dublin | Hybrid (3 days onsite)
We're hiring a Senior Automation Test Engineer to join a global payments technology team working on large-scale distributed platforms. This is an opportunity to play a key role in improving quality, reliability and release confidence across complex Java-based systems, while helping drive modern automation and performance testing practices.
What you'll be doing:
- Designing, building and maintaining automation frameworks across API, integration and end-to-end testing layers
- Developing automated test solutions for distributed Java microservices environments
- Integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and improving quality gates
- Leading performance testing activities using JMeter and BlazeMeter
- Creating and maintaining test data strategies, service virtualisation and test environments
- Performing API and protocol-level testing across HTTP services and SFTP workflows
- Contributing to resilience and chaos testing initiatives to validate system behaviour under failure conditions
- Working closely with Software Engineers, SREs, Product teams and other stakeholders to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle
- Mentoring team members and promoting automation testing best practices
What they're looking for:
- Strong experience in Automation Testing, Quality Engineering or Software Development in Test (SDET) roles
- Experience testing distributed Java applications and microservices-based architectures
- Strong automation framework development experience
- Hands-on experience with API and integration testing
- Strong performance testing experience using JMeter
- Experience working within CI/CD environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience working in Agile software delivery environments
Nice to have:
- BlazeMeter experience
- Contract testing experience
- Service virtualisation and mocking tools
- SFTP workflow testing experience
- Exposure to resilience or chaos engineering practices
- Experience working within large-scale cloud environments
Additional Information:
- Daily rate contract
- Initial 12-month contract with strong extension potential
- Hybrid working model (3 days onsite)
- Opportunity to work on highly scalable payment platforms used globally
- Exposure to modern quality engineering, performance testing and distributed systems
- No sponsorship available
