QA Engineer

QA Engineer – Automation / CI Testing Remote (UK) | Occasional Team Meet-Ups in Norfolk 6-Month Contract | Inside IR35 Potential Permanent Opportunity Rate £350 - £450 Cooper Lomaz are recruiting for a QA Engineer to join a global payments technology organisation delivering secure digital and SaaS-based payment solutions to financial institutions, fintechs, and enterprise customers internationally. This role will support a key transformation project focused on bringing a previously outsourced platform fully in-house, working closely with both UK and US engineering teams to enhance software quality, testing automation, and delivery capability across a modern Agile environment. The Role You will play a key role in developing and improving automated testing capability across business-critical platforms within a highly collaborative engineering team. The environment is heavily focused on continuous improvement, scalable delivery practices, and modern CI/CD principles. The successful candidate will be involved in: * Building and maintaining automated testing frameworks * Developing continuous integration and automated testing pipelines * Acceptance, regression, and integration testing * Supporting quality assurance across backend services and platform releases * Collaborating with distributed development teams across the UK and US * Helping transition systems and testing ownership from third-party vendors into the internal engineering function Required Experience * Commercial experience as a QA Engineer / Automation Test Engineer * Strong experience writing automated tests within CI/CD environments * Experience building and maintaining testing pipelines * Strong technical experience with: * Python * Django * Kotlin * TeamCity * Experience working within Agile software delivery teams * Strong communication and collaboration skills Desirable Experience * API and integration testing * Cloud-based environments * DevOps tooling and deployment pipelines * Experience working on enterprise SaaS or fintech/payment platforms * Experience transitioning systems from outsourced vendors to internal teams Contract Details * Initial 6-month contract * Inside IR35 * Fully remote working * Occasional meet-ups in Norfolk * Long-term opportunity with potential for permanent transition * Requirement to complete a DBS and background check on offer (funded by Cooper Lomaz) This is an excellent opportunity to join a business investing heavily in technology, innovation, and modern engineering capability within the payments and digital solutions space