Test Engineer

A bit about the role

Join our Technology R&D Lab as a Test Engineer building the next generation of API-first composable banking solutions. You will create and maintain automated testing for our IBOR (Investment Book of Record) platform a multi-tenant SaaS system serving financial institutions globally.

Working closely with our backend engineering team youll design testing strategies for our serverless event-driven architecture running on AWS ensuring quality compliance and resilience as we rapidly deploy new features.

Your key tasks

• Design and maintain automated API testing frameworks using tools like Postman/Newman REST Assured or similar for TypeScript/ services
• Build integration test suites for event-driven architectures (SQS message flows Lambda functions DynamoDB operations)
• Develop performance and load testing scenarios for serverless applications using k6 Artillery or Gatling
• Create test strategies for financial calculation accuracy (performance attribution time-weighted returns position keeping)
• Integrate automated tests into GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and rapid feedback
• Implement test data management strategies for multi-tenant environments with isolated tenant testing
• Partner with backend engineers to define testable service contracts and API specifications
• Champion quality engineering practices including test coverage analysis mutation testing and regression prevention

Qualifications :

• 3-5 years of experience in API and backend testing for distributed systems
• Strong experience with TypeScript or testing frameworks (Jest Mocha Chai Supertest)
• Proven experience testing REST APIs and asynchronous/event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience with AWS services: Lambda DynamoDB SQS S3
• Experience with API testing tools (Postman REST Assured or similar)
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing integration (GitHub Actions preferred)
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work closely with engineering teams in an R&D environment
• Experience testing serverless applications and understanding Lambda execution models
• Knowledge of financial services systems (IBOR portfolio accounting performance calculations)
• Experience with performance testing tools for serverless (k6 Artillery serverless-artillery)
• Experience testing infrastructure deployments (OpenTofu Terraform AWS CDK)
• Familiarity with LocalStack or similar tools for local AWS service emulation
• Experience with BDD practices and tools (Cucumber Gherkin)
• Understanding of multi-tenant SaaS testing strategies
• Comfortable using GenAI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot Claude Code) to accelerate test development
• Knowledge of compliance requirements for financial systems (SOC2 GDPR)

Additional Information :

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire compensate and promote regardless of origin age gender identity sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time