Associate Quality Engineer (Java Automation)
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Full-time | Requisition ID | 36029 |
| Office Country | Bulgaria |
| Office City | Sofia |
| Division | Information Technology |
| Contract Type | Fixed Term |
| Contract Length | 3 years |
| Posting End Date | 02/03/2026 |
Join a forward-thinking engineering team driving quality excellence across complex, high-value financial platforms. As a Quality Engineer, you’ll go beyond conventional testing by designing intelligent, automated test strategies that safeguard the integrity of critical systems. You’ll embed assurance deep into CI/CD pipelines, leveraging tools like Azure DevOps, Cypress, and REST-assured to validate everything from APIs to workflows. Every sprint, you’ll play a hands-on role in shaping how quality is built, ensuring performance, compliance, and resilience standards stay flawless under real-world conditions.
This is a role for someone, who thrives on solving intricate testing challenges in data-heavy, regulated environments. You’ll partner with developers and product owners to push automation boundaries, transform manual bottlenecks into code-driven validation, and champion a “shift-left, code-first” approach to quality. If you’re passionate about precision, automation, and the craft of testing applications, this is where you can turn testing into engineering mastery.
What You’ll Do
You’ll be the driving force behind building quality into every layer of our engineering ecosystem - not as a gatekeeper, but as a creator of smart, automated, scalable assurance.
In this role, you will:
Design and execute powerful test scenarios across functional, integration, regression, and workflow layers.
Work hand‑in‑hand with developers, analysts, and product owners to refine user stories and shape testable, unambiguous acceptance criteria.
Build reusable test data, automation scripts, and frameworks - embedding them directly into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous, code-first validation.
Drive root cause analysis and risk‑based prioritisation, ensuring defects are eliminated early and sprint velocity remains high.
Champion a shift-left, quality‑first culture by participating fully in Agile ceremonies and advocating for security, accessibility, and usability.
Continuously enhance automation coverage and replace manual effort with scalable, modern testing solutions.
Need to Have - Your Essentials
5+ years of hands-on QA experience across development and integration components
3+ years validating APIs and services, including RESTful workflows
Strong knowledge of TDD, BDD, pairing, and modern engineering practices
Experience supporting QA from high‑level solution architecture down to component level
Hands-on experience in CI/CD environments with strong version control discipline
Proven ability to build or extend test automation frameworks
UI testing experience across web and mobile
Experience aligning QA delivery within a mid-sized corporate tech landscape
Automation experience with Cypress + Cucumber (or similar tools)
Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and Agile delivery
Strong communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving skills
Nice to Have
Experience with non-functional testing (performance, load, stress, soak) — e.g., JMeter
Exposure to Azure DevOps, App Insights, Mailpit/Mailhog
Experience testing RESTful web services
Familiarity with SQL/PL-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Understanding of JSON, XML, HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript
Background in QA for regulated financial environments (banking, insurance, etc.)
You don’t need to be an expert in every tool - we value curiosity, learning mindset, and growth.
Why You’ll Love This Role
Because this isn’t traditional testing - This is engineering-led quality!
You’ll influence how quality is built, automated, measured, and scaled across high‑value financial systems. You’ll solve complex problems, shape testing strategy, and elevate engineering maturity across teams.
You’ll help transform assurance from a checkpoint into a powerful, integrated engineering discipline.
What is it like to work at the EBRD? / About EBRD
Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.
At EBRD, our Values – Inclusiveness, Innovation, Trust, and Responsibility – are at the heart of how we work. We bring these to life through our Workplace Behaviours: listening well and speaking up, collaborating smartly, acting decisively with full commitment, and simplifying to amplify our impact. These principles shape our culture and define our success. We seek individuals who not only share these values but are also committed to embedding them in their daily work, fostering a positive and high-performing environment.
The EBRD environment provides you with:
Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic background or disability.
Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).
