Software Engineer in Test

About us

Viva.com is Europe’s first acquirer powering merchant payments acceptance across 24 countries and 1.165+ devices. With an ECB approved banking license and presence in 24 European markets, Viva.com’s Tap on Any Device technology for in-store payments, Smart Checkout payment gateway for online payments, and marketplace payment solution, help European businesses of any size to accept and manage payments how they want. All of Viva.com’s technology is built in-house over MS Azure, and is fully scalable, supporting any payment checkout journey. 

Viva.com provides a seamless, conversion-boosting omnichannel payments platform, featuring acceptance of 40+ payment methods across 17 languages and 9 currencies. Viva.com’s ever-expanding financial services' suite includes value added features such as Real-Time Settlement; Offline Payments minimizing chances of losing a sale; a Viva.com business debit card to manage corporate expenses, while reducing acceptance fees to as low as 0%; Merchant Advance. 

Role Overview

The Software Engineer in Test (SET) is responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated test frameworks and tools, ensuring the quality and reliability of software applications. The role involves close collaboration with software development, DevOps and QA teams to identify areas where automation can improve testing efficiency, coverage and overall product quality.

As a SET, you will apply your software engineering skills to write test code and design systems for automating manual processes, validating features and improving the continuous integration (CI) pipeline. This role requires a solid understanding of test automation, software development best practices and modern testing tools and methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable and reliable automated test frameworks for functional, integration, regression and performance testing;
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases;
• Work with DevOps teams to integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipelines, ensuring continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle;
• Perform manual testing where necessary, especially in complex scenarios or new features where automated testing may not be feasible initially;
• Identify, document, and track software defects in collaboration with the development teams to ensure timely resolutions;
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality standards for automated tests and testing frameworks;
• Analyze test results, generate reports and track key quality metrics to ensure transparency on the quality and stability of software releases;
• Identify opportunities for test automation, process improvements and testing best practices to enhance overall product quality and testing efficiency.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field;
• 2+ years of experience in software development, test automation or software quality engineering;
• Strong understanding of software QA methodologies, tools and processes;
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages (Java is preferred);
• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks like Selenium, Appium, Maven, Gradle, Cucumber, Rest API or similar;
• Familiarity with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI) and version control systems (e.g. Git);
• Experience with defect tracking and test case management tools (Jira is preferred);
• Strong knowledge of API testing tools (e.g. Postman, REST-assured) and good understanding of RESTful services;
• Ability to write and execute SQL queries for validating data integrity and back-end functionality;
• Experience with performance testing tools like JMeter, Gatling or similar will be considered a plus;
• Strong interpersonal, analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

💸 Competitive compensation package;

Annual bonus based on your performance and targets’ achievement;

🏥 Private health insurance for you and your family;

💻 Top of the Line tools and equipment;

🏃🏽‍♂️ Employee Wellness Program like Daily group sessions led by professional coaches;  

📚 Career development and regular feedback to develop your skills.