Strong Middle / Senior Automation Test Engineer (Python), JR202

ELEKS Quality Assurance Office is looking for a Strong Middle / Senior Automation Test Engineer (Python) in Kyiv, and Western Ukraine.

ABOUT PROJECT

Our client is a US-based leading national services and online solutions provider to community and regional banks and credit unions.

We’re looking for someone who pushes testing left rather than waits for tickets, who treats AI tools like Claude Code as a core part of how they work, and who sees a regression suite that has grown organically over time as an opportunity rather than a chore.
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REQUIREMENTS
4+ years of software quality assurance experience

Strong coding skills in Python, with the judgment to recognize test code that needs work and the skill to improve it

Experience designing automated test frameworks, not just writing tests inside someone else’s framework

Proven experience testing RESTful web services and web applications in a cloud environment (Azure preferred)

Comfort working across the test pyramid — unit, integration, and end-to-end — and a clear opinion on where each layer earns its keep

Comfort reasoning about numerical correctness — tolerances, golden masters, and regression of calculated outputs, not just HTTP 200s

Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or similar) and a point of view on what belongs in pre-merge vs. nightly vs. release gates

Awareness of security and compliance considerations in financial software — authorization testing, dependency scanning, and careful handling of sensitive data in test environments

A habit of measuring quality — escape rate, flake rate, coverage trends — and using those numbers to drive decisions

Familiarity with Selenium WebDriver, Postman, or equivalent tools (BDD/Gherkin/Cucumber is a plus)

Genuine curiosity about AI-assisted development tools and a track record (or strong desire) to apply them to QA work

Excellent communication — you’ll push back on developers, ask hard questions in grooming, and explain quality tradeoffs to business stakeholders

A quality mindset that goes beyond test execution — you care about where a bug should have been caught, not just that it was caught

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Business, or related discipline

Intermediate high level of English

NICE TO HAVE
Experience modernizing or evolving an existing automated test framework

Experience with Playwright or modern web E2E tooling (we’re open to evolving past Selenium)

Experience with contract testing (Pact or similar) for API surfaces shared between clients

Experience testing calculation engines, pricing engines, or risk models where numerical accuracy is the product

Familiarity with the business model of a community bank or credit union

Financial solutions or financial analysis background

Experience with Claude Code, Copilot, or similar AI development tools applied to testing

RESPONSIBILITIES
Strengthen and extend our automated regression framework so the team can trust the results on every nightly run — assess the current state, propose a path forward, and execute

Push testing left: when a nightly regression catches a defect, drive a unit or integration test to catch the same class of problem on the next build

Build and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests across our stack — Python test framework, C# APIs running in Azure, SQL and MongoDB

Own the quality of the numbers, not just the code — build golden-master and tolerance-based tests for the financial calculations at the heart of BASIS and AtlasOne, where a basis point of drift in a projection is a defect that needs to be caught

Own the CI/CD quality gates — decide what blocks a merge, what blocks a release, and how flaky tests get quarantined rather than ignored

Treat performance as a quality attribute — stand up performance regression coverage for calc-heavy paths so we catch slowdowns the same week they’re introduced, not the quarter a client notices

Close the loop with production — work alongside the team to monitor Azure alerts, logs, and traces; investigate escaped defects from production support tickets; and feed what you find back into the right test layer

Develop, document, and execute functional and regression tests across both the established BASIS desktop client and the growing web-based experience that is replacing it; help us continually improve how we automate testing across both applications as the platform evolves

Use AI tools like Claude Code to expand coverage, generate test scaffolding, and continuously sharpen our QA process

Help raise the floor on what “tested” means across the team — partner with developers on testable design, review test code in PRs, and share what you learn so quality becomes a shared discipline

Diagnose application issues using browser dev tools (Chrome, Edge) and database tooling (SQL, MongoDB)

Manage story and bug tickets from creation through closure

Collaborate with business analysts and developers to refine requirements before they become defects

Participate in Agile ceremonies — standups, planning, grooming, retros — but expect those to feel more like working conversations than process for its own sake. We’re a tight-knit team that values people who reach out, ask questions, and enjoy collaborating

Serve as second-level support for internal user questions and issues

WHAT YOU WILL GET WITH ELEKS

Close cooperation with a customer

Challenging tasks

Competence development

Team of professionals

Dynamic environment with a low level of bureaucracy

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