Company Description



Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.



We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world's leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.




Job Description



Join our Technology R&D Lab as a Senior Test Engineer and play a key role in building the next generation of composable, coreless banking solutions. You will help deliver a secure, reliable, and scalable SaaS product for use by numerous financial institutions.



You will work with highly capable engineers and product teams to define and implement modern testing frameworks, ensuring our banking platform rapidly, repeatedly and consistently delivers quality, compliance, and resilience at scale.




Your key tasks:

• Design and maintain automated testing frameworks across UI, API, and integration layers using tools like Cypress, Playwright, and Postman


• Implement BDD testing practices using tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow to strengthen collaboration between product and engineering


• Develop test suites for performance, reliability, and security testing (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, OWASP ZAP)


• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) to enable continuous testing and faster feedback cycles


• Partner with SRE, Platform Engineering, and Product teams to embed quality checks in the delivery process from design through deployment


• Define AI-enabled test data management, validation and environment strategies to support parallel testing across multiple product teams


• Champion quality engineering principles and mentor team members on test design, coverage, and automation best practices

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in test automation for distributed or cloud-native systems


• Expertise in modern test frameworks (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit) and BDD practices


• Experience testing backend APIs, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines


• Familiarity with AWS cloud services (DynamoDB, Lambda, ECS/EKS), at least one other cloud service and Infrastructure-as-Code testing (Terraform, CDK)


• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps principles


• Awareness of compliance and security testing for regulated financial systems (PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR)


• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive approach to problem solving and continuous improvement

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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