Senior Quality Assurance Tester

Location: Warsaw, Gdańsk, Gdynia, or Łódź, Poland (Hybrid: 50% / 2-3 days per week from the office)

Rate: up to 110 PLN/h

Cooperation model: B2B Contract (Cooperation agreement signed directly with Optiveum)

Optiveum is currently recruiting a Senior Quality Assurance Tester for our client, an international organization in the banking and finance sector. In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring the quality of applications and surrounding ecosystems within the Mortgage domain.

Please note: Optiveum acts as the recruitment and contracting party for this position. We will sign the cooperation agreement directly with the chosen candidate.

What you will do:

• End-to-End (E2E) Testing: Perform E2E testing of applications and surrounding ecosystems within the Mortgage domain.

• Test Design & Execution: Analyze requirements, design comprehensive test scenarios, create detailed test cases, and execute manual functional tests across complete user workflows.

• Defect Management: Identify, document, and track defects with detailed reproduction steps; collaborate closely with developers to resolve issues, and perform retesting and regression testing.

• Requirements Analysis: Review functional requirements for completeness and testability, participate in refinement sessions, and ensure acceptance criteria are clear.

• Integration Testing: Verify integration points between system components, validate data flow across applications, and test third-party integrations from a functional perspective.

• Collaboration & Reporting: Work closely with business analysts, developers, and product owners; participate in Agile ceremonies; communicate test progress and provide testing estimates.

• Release Readiness: Provide test status reports and quality metrics, plan and execute regression tests for each release, and support UAT activities.

Must-have skills:

• 10+ years of experience in Software Testing with a strong background in the Mortgages domain.

• Strong manual testing skills covering Functional, System & Integration, API, and PEGA testing.

• Proven End-to-End (E2E) testing experience.

• Working experience in Pega and REST API testing.

• General testing knowledge equivalent to the ISTQB Foundation Level.

• Experience in defining, executing, and reporting tests for complex software systems using test management tools (e.g., qTest, Xray, HP ALM).

• Practical experience working in Agile teams using Jira/Confluence.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, and a proactive "tester mindset" (high attention to detail and quality).

• Ability to work in an international, cross-country environment.

• Willingness to learn and understand new tools and processes.

• Languages: Advanced proficiency in both Polish and English.

Nice-to-have:

• ISTQB Foundation Level certification.

• Knowledge of automated API testing tools (e.g., Postman collections, REST Assured, Cypress, or similar).

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience testing microservices-based architectures.

• System Testing experience for modern UIs (Web/Mobile).