Senior Automation Engineer

Jit Team is a Polish company employing over 700 experienced experts, creating highly specialised teams for clients worldwide. They have a long-standing relationship with a leading financial group in the Nordic countries, with over 200 personnel engaged in more than 60 projects for this Norwegian financial services provider. The company emphasizes Scandinavian culture, work-life balance, and international teams with daily English language exposure.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in test automation (UI and API: REST/SOAP).
• 5+ years of experience with .NET (preferred) or Java.
• Practical experience with Playwright or Selenium.
• Strong understanding of test automation framework design and maintainable architecture patterns.
• Experience with SQL and data validation for automated tests.
• Experience with CI/CD integration (e.g., Bamboo/Jenkins/Azure DevOps or similar).
• Experience with Git-based workflows (Bitbucket/GitHub/GitLab).
• Experience working with Jira in agile delivery environments.
• Strong leadership, mentoring/coaching, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Self-driven, proactive, and able to work independently.
• Fluent spoken and written English.

Nice to have:

• Experience in banking/financial services domain.
• Experience with Temenos T24.
• Experience working in large, distributed enterprise test environments.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted coding tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) for test script generation, refactoring, and documentation.
• Exposure to LLM-based test automation techniques (e.g., generating locators, test data, or assertions from requirements).

• Lead, coach, and mentor in test automation best practices.
• Define and evolve the team's test automation strategy, including roadmap, tooling, framework architecture, and quality gates.
• Design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve scalable automation frameworks for UI and API testing.
• Partner with Functional SMEs to define quality approaches, acceptance criteria, and risk-based test coverage.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and collaborate closely with development and infrastructure teams.
• Run automation feasibility assessments and recommend the right level of automation per feature.
• Improve test coverage, execution speed, reliability, and diagnostics in a continuous improvement mindset.
• Ensure proper handling of test data dependencies, environments, and cross-system integration flows.
• Collaborate effectively in an international, cross-country setup and contribute to QA/test automation communities.