Handelsbanken´s new digitial unit are looking for a Sr QA Engineer

Do you have experience with QA automation for banking applications and want to be in front of developing Handelsbanken Digital?

Handelsbanken Digital is a new unit established as a modern, digital organization, having ambitions to build digital-first mobile and web banking applications for the retail banking market. To succeed with this, we need experienced engineers focused on quality and test automation, to help ship the product and shape the culture of the new digital unit. Are you the one we are looking for?

We have ambitious goals, fast pace, lots of energy and knowledge of what this means in terms of investments and willingness to change. This is a newly created position and a mostly greenfield, modern technology environment. You will have a key role in the engineering team, with a particular responsibility to ensure our applications are shipped with the highest quality and security standards.

As a QA Engineer, you will be involved across the full software development lifecycle. You will:

• Refine and evolve the test strategy of the digital unit, providing thought leadership based on your QA expertise and adopting best practices
• Collaborate with Product Owners to verify specifications and acceptance criteria, and to document test cases
• Work with Backend and Frontend engineers across several agile development teams to ensure their Unit and Integration tests cover the specs, and to enhance mocking capabilities over time
• Write and maintain end-to-end tests to make sure the work of the various teams integrates well
• Coordinate load tests, penetration tests and manual exploratory testing
• Design and implement technical foundations for mock/test data management (e.g., seeding of test environment data, consistent rewinding to similar state)
• You will report to the Chief Architect and work in a team of other QA and DevOps engineers.

The ideal candidate will have:

• 5+ years of experience as a Test Engineer or Software Engineer with a focus on quality and test automation
• Expert knowledge of test automation strategies (test pyramid) and E2E test frameworks (Cypress, Detox, Appium)
• Hands-on experience with jUnit, jest and gatling
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines
• Knowledge of mobile app test and review processes (AppStore, Playstore, BrowserStack)
• Knowledge of cloud-native architectures and API contracts (OpenAPI)
• Experience in Banking, Payments, or similar regulated financial service environments
• Advocacy of modern development methodology, e.g., pair programming, TDD, mainline development
• Experience in a cross-functional, full-stack setup, managing end-to-end feature delivery
• Ability to collaborate with agile product owners and engineering leads to define and refine requirements
• Good communication and presentation skills in English and preferably Norwegian

Why Handelsbanken?

• Be a part of the most ambitious and exciting digital project in the Nordic banking industry
• Build a full-fledged banking solution at Neobank speed
• Be part of a highly attractive professional environment that stays at the forefront of digital development in the industry
• Have the flexibility to apply start-up methodology and speed in a corporate, regulated environment
• Competitive Compensation & Benefits package with great employee schemes for banking, loans, pensions, and insurance
• Spaceous office in central Oslo (Vika), 5 minutes from Nationaltheatret

About Handelsbanken:

Handelsbanken is Norway's fourth largest bank with customers in both the private and corporate markets. The bank has NOK 280 billion in loans and is Norway's third largest corporate bank. Handelsbanken is a challenger with an aggressive growth strategy in the coming years. In addition to traditional banking, the bank offers services in asset management, life insurance and securities (interest and currency, share brokerage, corporate finance).

The bank is known for having very satisfied customers, that it is solid and proper, and that it has a strong and proud internal culture based on great freedom and great responsibility for employees. Handelsbanken has around 800 employees in Norway, of which around 350 works at the head office. The bank has 41 bank offices around the country, which, together with an accelerated digital investment, will deliver customers Norway's best banking experience. Handelsbanken has an ambitious sustainability strategy with a goal of climate neutrality in 2040, ten years before the goals of the Paris Agreement. The bank has made clear choices to contribute to sustainable restructuring and aims to be recognized as the most sustainable bank. Handelsbanken in Norway is part of the Handelsbanken group with headquarters in Stockholm. The bank was established in 1871 and has been in Norway since 1988. See more information at www.handelsbanken.no.

Join us in creating the best digital-first mobile and web banking application with one of the most esteemed banks in the Nordics!

The application deadline is Sunday 26.02.2023, but we are evaluating applications continually. We perform a background check on relevant candidates through our partner Semac. Let us know if you have any questions, you can reach our recruiter Ingri at +47 902 40 998