Norwich
QA Engineer – Automation / CI Testing Remote (UK) | Occasional Team Meet-Ups in Norfolk 6-Month Contract | Inside IR35 Potential Permanent Opportunity Rate £350 - £450 Cooper Lomaz are recruiting for a QA Engineer to join a global payments technology organisation delivering secure digital and SaaS-based payment solutions to financial institutions, fintechs, and enterprise customers internationally. This role will support a key transformation project focused on bringing a previously outsourced platform fully in-house, working closely with both UK and US engineering teams to enhance software quality, testing automation, and delivery capability across a modern Agile environment. The Role You will play a key role in developing and improving automated testing capability across business-critical platforms within a highly collaborative engineering team. The environment is heavily focused on continuous improvement, scalable delivery practices, and modern CI/CD principles. The successful candidate will be involved in: • Building and maintaining automated testing frameworks, • Developing continuous integration and automated testing pipelines, • Acceptance, regression, and integration testing, • Supporting quality assurance across backend services and platform releases, • Collaborating with distributed development teams across the UK and US, • Helping transition systems and testing ownership from third-party vendors into the internal engineering function Required Experience • Commercial experience as a QA Engineer / Automation Test Engineer, • Strong experience writing automated tests within CI/CD environments, • Experience building and maintaining testing pipelines, • Strong technical experience with:, • Python, • Django, • Kotlin, • TeamCity, • Experience working within Agile software delivery teams, • Strong communication and collaboration skills Desirable Experience • API and integration testing, • Cloud-based environments, • DevOps tooling and deployment pipelines, • Experience working on enterprise SaaS or fintech/payment platforms, • Experience transitioning systems from outsourced vendors to internal teams Contract Details • Initial 6-month contract, • Inside IR35, • Fully remote working, • Occasional meet-ups in Norfolk, • Long-term opportunity with potential for permanent transition, • Requirement to complete a DBS and background check on offer (funded by Cooper Lomaz) This is an excellent opportunity to join a business investing heavily in technology, innovation, and modern engineering capability within the payments and digital solutions space