Our partner mission is to build groundbreaking AI products from scratch. We´re looking for a Senior Test Automation Engineer to architect and build the high-availability, scalable platform that will power our entire AI operation. This role is planned as a time-boxed engagement of approximately 3 months and is intended to be filled on a contractor basis.
What you will do
- Evaluate and operationalize AIfirst E2E + API testing platforms in our environment (staging/QA).
- Set up and run the first meaningful E2E/API test flows (breadth smoke + depth on critical journeys).
- Integrate test execution with existing delivery pipelines (CI/CD) where feasible, and define lightweight execution schedules otherwise.
- Design a stable regression pack for toprisk user journeys and critical APIs.
- Actively reduce flakiness test data strategy, environment readiness checks, locator strategy, retries only where justified.
- Validate AIgenerated tests and AI suggestions treat AI output as a hypothesis, not ground truth.
- Produce highquality defect reports and handover to dev teams (clear repro steps, evidence, severity, suspected root cause).
- Document the how we run this playbook ownership, triage, metrics, guardrails.
Requirements
- 5+ years in test automation / SDET roles, with proven delivery in fastmoving environments.
- Strong E2E automation fundamentals (web UI + API). Familiarity with modern frameworks (Playwright/Cypress/Selenium, REST testing tooling).
- CI/CD integration experience (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins or similar).
- Solid understanding of test strategy, test data, and reliability engineering for automated tests.
- Ability to work with partially documented systems and converge quickly via stakeholder interviews.
- Comfortable validating AIgenerated outputs and building safe guardrails.
- Strong communication can work with product owners, developers, and external vendors.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, payments, neobank, POS, or other regulated domains.
- Experience with codeless/lowcode testing platforms (Virtuoso/Testim/Mabl/Functionize/etc.).
- Security testing awareness (basic OWASP, DAST concepts) not required, but valuable.
What they offer:
- HO-friendly with a cool HQ in Budapest.
- Competitive Salary