Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Job Purpose

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at CR2, you will play a key role within a Scrum team to ensure the quality, reliability, and robustness of our digital banking solutions.

You will work close to the product under test — understanding business requirements, clarifying acceptance criteria, designing meaningful test coverage, and implementing high-quality automation. While contributing to the broader automation framework, your primary focus will be delivering stable, maintainable automated and manual testing within your product area.

This role requires strong technical ability, leadership mindset, and attention to detail. You will actively contribute to automation design, test creation, and ongoing maintenance while helping elevate quality standards across the team.

Our Hybrid Working Model requires employees to be on-site three days per week in our Amman / Bangalore office.

Key Responsibilities

Agile & Product Collaboration

• Develop deep product and product domain understanding to ensure testing targets true business risk and critical workflows.

• Own the testing of projects you are involved in from requirements refinement to production release.
• Clarify user stories with Product Owners and developers to ensure clarity & testability.
• Participate actively in all Agile ceremonies, providing accurate estimates.
• Communicate progress, risks, and blockers proactively, escalate issues as appropriate and keep Jira up to date.
• Work within an Agile environment, using JIRA and continuous delivery processes & tools.

Test Design & Automation

• Implement, maintain and run automated tests across Web and Mobile & API.
• Contribute to and follow established automation framework standards.
• Ensure tests are reliable, maintainable, and meaningful (not automation for its own sake).
• Actively reduce flakiness and improve stability within your test suite.
• Review automation code and provide constructive feedback.
• Contribute to improving automation coverage and execution efficiency.

Manual & Exploratory Testing

• Execute manual tests where appropriate.
• Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability issues.
• Validate complex business workflows in collaboration with stakeholders

Defect & Environment Management

• Identify, log, and track defects through to closure with clear root cause analysis.
• Collaborate closely with developers to resolve issues effectively.
• Support test data preparation and environment validation.

Quality Ownership & Leadership

• Take ownership of quality within your product area –contributing to continuous improvement in our processes and tooling and promoting shift-left quality practices.

• Mentor junior QA engineers and support onboarding.
• Contribute to interviewing and hiring new QA team members.
• Maintain and expand existing documentation (how to docs etc.)  to create a repeatable and scalable test department.

Critical Competencies

Technical Capability:

• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Selenium, Appium, TestNG, RestAssured (or similar).
• Experience with Mobile, API and UI automation.
• Experience with Jira, Xray or equivalent sprint/ test mgt tooling.
• Experience with Jira, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).
• Solid understanding of databases (SQL) and service-based architectures.
• Quality & Detail Orientation.

Quality & Detail Orientation

• Strong test design skills and understanding of risk-based testing.
• High attention to detail and ability to spot edge cases.
• Comfortable balancing automation and manual testing.

Leadership & Communication

• Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to articulate risks and findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Confident in asking clarifying questions and challenging ambiguities.
• Strong collaboration skills across Product, Engineering, and QA.
• Ability to mentor and guide peers.

Mindset

• Ownership-driven and accountable.
• Proactive in identifying improvement opportunities.

• Interest in exploring AI and new technologies to enhance automation and testing efficiency.
• Comfortable working in regulated, high-quality environments.

Qualifications & Experience

• 6+ years’ experience in software testing with strong automation exposure.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience in banking, fintech, or other regulated industries preferred.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
  

Success Metrics

• Stable, maintainable automated test coverage within assigned product area.
• Reduced defect leakage to production.
• High-quality, review-ready automation code.
• Active contribution to team quality standards.
• Positive mentorship impact on junior team members.

Equal Opportunity Statement

CR2 HPS Group is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.