Senior Test Automation Engineer 100% (f/m/d)

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You will join our ML & AI ART as a Senior Test Automation Engineer, responsible for the technical test automation solution supporting our AI and MLOps platform. The platform powers AI-driven capabilities across the Bank including RAG systems, LLM-based assistants, agentic workflows, and ML pipelines serving business-critical use cases. You will own the architecture, implementation, and execution of our test automation frameworks, covering both traditional software components (APIs, UIs, data pipelines) and emerging AI/ML-specific behaviour, and act as the Test Automation Ambassador within the ART. You will work within the Bank's Test Strategy, while owning the technical depth and hands-on delivery of automation for your platform.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Define and evolve the technical test automation approach and framework architecture for the ML & AI ART, aligned with the Bank's Test Strategy and Test Policy

• Design reusable, scalable test automation patterns (page objects, API clients, test data builders) that other engineers across squads can adopt, ensuring technical consistency of test automation across the ART

• Analyse and evaluate requirements, Features, and Stories for testability during PI Planning, Backlog Refinement, and Iteration Planning

• Derive test cases from technical and risk analysis of both functional and non-functional requirements (reliability, performance, security, usability, robustness), selecting appropriate test techniques and automation scope based on risk, coverage goals, and ROI

• Automate identified test cases using Python-based frameworks — Playwright-Python for UI, requests + pytest for APIs, Behave or pytest-bdd for BDD/Gherkin — applying clean code principles, reusability, readability, and stability

• Design and implement AI/ML-specific test cases: evaluation pipelines for LLM outputs

• Build and maintain contract tests (e.g. Pact) for platform APIs and microservice boundaries

• Integrate and orchestrate automated tests in GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including merge request pipelines, GitLab runners

• Leverage Docker and Kubernetes to provision isolated, reproducible test environments

• Plan, schedule, and trigger automated test executions across environments (DEV, INT, UAT, pre-PROD) — including regression suites, smoke tests, release executions, and on-demand runs tied to merge requests and PI milestones

• Monitor execution health, investigate and quarantine flaky tests, and maintain a low false-positive rate to keep quality signals trustworthy

• Triage execution results, raise defects in Jira with evidence (logs, traces, screenshots, videos), and communicate quality signals to the squad, Product Owner, and Test Manager

• Produce execution evidence (run metadata, artefacts, reports) suitable for audit and release governance, in line with the Bank's Test Policy and retention requirements

• Contribute actively to PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt, and other SAFe ceremonies as part of the ML & AI ART

• Ensure end-to-end traceability from Jira Features and Stories → automated tests → defects → test results, leveraging the Bank's test management integration

• Author and maintain BDD scenarios in Gherkin, linked to acceptance criteria on Stories

• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, ML Engineers, MLOps Engineers, and Data Engineers across squads

• Align work with the Bank's Test Strategy, and reporting requirements, supporting audit-ready artefacts, traceability matrices, and test progress reporting

• Support root cause analysis of defects using logs and traces

• Act as Test Automation Ambassador within the ML & AI ART consulting squads on automation design, framework usage, tooling choices, and test data strategy

• Prepare test data, ensuring synthetic or anonymised data is used wherever possible to meet confidentiality expectations

• Design AI/ML-specific test datasets where needed

• Own test maintenance and refactoring in response to UI, API, model, or prompt changes, ensuring continued compliance with access controls and test environment policies

YOUR PROFILE

• Proven expertise in Python-based test automation: Playwright-Python (UI), Behave or pytest-bdd (Gherkin/BDD), requests + pytest (API/service validation practical equivalence to REST-Assured)

• Demonstrated ability to design and own test automation frameworks, not just write test scripts including reusable utilities and maintainability patterns

• Hands-on experience integrating and executing automated tests within CI/CD pipelines, ideally GitLab or equivalent enterprise platforms

• Experience with distributed test execution, parallelisation, flaky-test management, and modern reporting tools (Allure, pytest-html, or equivalent)

• Solid grasp of Git and version control workflows, clean code principles, and code review culture

• Working knowledge of Docker; familiarity with Kubernetes basics (jobs, namespaces)

• Exposure to testing AI/ML systems, or strong motivation to develop this expertise: evaluation of LLM outputs, handling non-deterministic responses, evals for RAG and agentic workflows

• Understanding of API design, microservices, event-driven architectures, and authentication layers

• Sound understanding of SAFe and DevOps principles; experience operating in an Agile Release Train is a plus

• Experience with Jira for Story/Feature tracking and test management integration (Xray, Agile Hive)

• Demonstrated end-to-end thinking — connecting user journeys, data flows, authentication layers, and system boundaries

• Comfortable working within an established Test Strategy, collaborating with Test Managers on execution planning, reporting, and compliance

• Demonstrated awareness of information security, data privacy, and compliant test data handling in regulated environments

• Collaborative team player with strong ownership takes automation problems from analysis to execution to resolution with minimal supervision

• Strong communication skills, able to work effectively with engineers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Architects, and Test Managers

• Strong organisational skills, structured, reliable

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

• Minimum 5–7 years in Test Automation with substantial hands-on Python experience, including demonstrated framework design, ownership, and test execution at scale (not only script-level contributions)

• Experience in a regulated environment (financial services, healthcare, pharma) strongly preferred

• Certifications in ISTQB (Foundation as baseline)

• SAFe (SP, SSM, or equivalent), or DevOps disciplines are a plus

• Exposure to AI/ML systems through testing, development, or applied projects is a strong plus; appetite to develop deep AI/ML testing expertise is essential

• Fluency in English; German is a plus

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