MeDirect
is a Maltese digital bank, founded in 2004, with over 160,000 clients and operations in Malta, Belgium, and the Netherlands. We offer a wide range of financial services to both retail and corporate clients, including daily banking, savings, mortgages, and corporate services.
We are always on the lookout for driven and creative individuals who are eager to grow their career while helping us deliver cutting-edge digital banking experiences. At MeDirect, we encourage collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning, ensuring our people thrive in a dynamic environment.
Role Overview
We are seeking a talented Backend QA Engineer to join our Development Team and play a key role in ensuring the quality and reliability of backend software systems.
This position offers the opportunity to actively participate within an agile team, designing testing strategies, creating and maintaining functional and non-functional test cases, and executing test plans. Collaborating closely with developers and Technical Product Owners, the Backend QA Engineer will track and report defects, perform root cause analysis, and contribute to API regression and smoke testing. The role also involves working with automation teams to identify candidates for automated testing and preparing reusable test collections to support automation workflows.
The selected candidate should be willing to relocate to the specified job location.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Participate in the squad agile ceremonies to identify test plans
- Create/maintain integration and backend test cases both at a functional and non-functional level
- Execute tests and use test management tools to record test runs and communicate test results
- Collaborate with the TPOs and developers daily to ensure sprint goals are consistently met
- Report, and triage defects in a structured and effective manner using issue tracking software
- Liaise with the automation team for any tests that are ideal candidates for automation
- Define, identify, and execute API regression and smoke tests using collection runners
- Perform basic troubleshooting and root cause analysis in case of defects and issues
- Prepare test collections that can be used as wireframes by the QA automation team
Required knowledge, skills and experience:
- University degree in Computer Science or relevant field
- Minimum of 2 years' experience in backend testing or development roles
- Experience with issue tracking tools such as Jira and test tracking tools such as Testrail or Xray
- Strong experience with API testing clients such as Postman, bruno, or JMeter
- Working knowledge of SQL queries for databases such as MSSQL, Oracle or Postgres
- Familiarity with messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Ability to navigate through service logs and perform basic troubleshooting
- Basic ability to use debugging tools such as browser dev tools
- Good understanding of JSON schema definitions, and microservice architecture designs principles
- Working knowledge of versioning tools and repos such as Git or SVN
- Basic knowledge of cloud infrastructures, CI/CD platforms will be considered an asset
- Knowledge of scripting or development languages such as JS or C# will be considered as a very strong asset
Top Skills
What We Do
MeDirect (formerly known as Mediterranean Bank) is a pan-European retail digital challenger bank, with two main lines of business: WealthTech and specialised mortgage lending.
As a WealthTech, our aspiration is to democratise investing and disrupt the retail digital investment space by deploying a unique Wealth SuperApp offering one of the broadest range of online investment solutions to individual clients. We provide clients with autonomy, choice and guidance in the way they want to manage their money. Our SuperApp is also a one-stop-shop, catering to clients’ investment and everyday banking needs. All this with simplicity and an easy user experience.
As a specialised mortgage lending platform, we carefully select the segments we operate in, with the goal of setting new standards of service for our customers and address, when relevant, underserved segments of the mortgage market in jurisdictions we operate in.
With ca. 400 employees at Group level in aggregate, we are growing a world-class Tech platform in Malta to support our pan-European operations, currently in Belgium, the Netherlands and Malta.
We compete for talent on an international level, with 25 different nationalities currently represented in the Group. Our work environment is fast paced and constantly changing while fostering a sense of teamwork and pride in participating in MeDirect’s exciting transformation journey.
Headquartered in Malta, MeDirect has a subsidiary bank in Belgium, MeDirect Bank NV/SA. MeDirect is Malta’s third largest banking group in terms of total assets. It is a systemic bank in Malta, and its consolidated group is supervised under the Single Supervisory Mechanism by a Joint Supervisory Team including the European Central Bank, the Malta Financial Services Authority and the National Bank of Belgium.
