Qa Engineer

The role will be accountable for the following:

• Working with the QA practise lead and application owners to provide guidance on test planning, strategies, design, and automation
• Identify gaps in testing practises across teams and recommend improvements to increase efficiency, coverage and effectiveness
• Develop and advocate the use of testing frameworks and processes and assist teams on their maturity journey towards to full automated testing
• Contribute to internal communities of practise by sharing knowledge, insights, tools, templates and training resources
• Maintaining and helping define manual and automated
• test artifacts, metrics and environment
• The role requires a candidate with some experience and a strong desire to work with and develop full stack development, automation and integration skills, to join the Cybersecurity Core Engineering Automation and Integration.
• The candidate will join a cross disciplined team of engineers responsible for Automation and Integration use case delivery, focussing on product integration, data and user interaction.
• An ideal candidate will also have some basic knowledge/understanding across Data, Network and Endpoint security domains or at least a strong willingness to learn/develop in role.
• An ideal candidate must also be a problem solver and have passion for creating technology solutions.
• Cybersecurity is a key area of investment for HSBC, with good opportunities for career development.
• We are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Software Test Automation Engineer to design, implement, and maintain automated testing solutions across our Python back-end systems and modern front-end applications. You'll play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and user experience of our software platform as it scales.

What you will bring to the role

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Hand on experience as a consultant working independently to advise teams on how to adopt testing best practice
• Knowledge of ISTQB FL
• 3+ years of experience working as a QA engineer within an agile Software Development team for at least three years; with relevant industry certification
• 3+ years of experience in designing manual testing for Web application and REST API associated with 3rd parties
• Proficiency in Python for scripting and test automation
• Hands-on experience with front-end testing frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium WebDriver
• Familiarity with API testing tools like Postman, Pytest, or REST Assured
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Experience working with Cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc)
• Experience working with Q Test/Tricentis tools
• Ability to identify exceptions in application logs and perform an initial triage for managing bugs and tests
• Understanding of modern web architecture and JavaScript frameworks (React/Angular/Vue)
• Excellent debugging, documentation, and communication skills