Andersen Lab

qa engineer (manual) for a payment platform

In short

A QA Engineer role (manual-focused, with some automation) testing a payment platform built on microservices and Kafka-based asynchronous processing. The company is a fintech-related project in a banking/payment domain, hiring at middle level in a hybrid format in Almaty. The role demands strong backend testing skills: REST API testing, Kafka integration testing, SQL, log analysis in distributed systems, and basic automated test development, plus Intermediate+ English.

Описание проекта
The project is developing and integrating a modern payment platform for secure and reliable payment processing and interaction with external systems. It includes scalable microservices and asynchronous transaction processing, with a focus on resilience, security, and high availability.
Задачи
•Perform functional testing of payment services
•Test REST APIs and system integrations
•Verify interactions between microservices and external systems
•Test Kafka-based messaging and asynchronous event processing
•Validate payment transaction states, including success, decline, cancel, refund, pending, and error
•Verify transitions between payment states
•Use SQL to validate transaction processing results
•Cross-check API responses, Kafka events, and database records
•Develop and maintain automated API tests
•Test retry mechanisms, timeouts, duplicate requests, and error recovery scenarios
•Analyze logs and trace requests across services
•Perform regression testing
•Develop test scenarios and prepare test data
•Report, document, and track defects
•Verify bug fixes and assess regression risks
•Test iOS and Android mobile applications
•Analyze automated test results and contribute to maintaining the regression test suite
Требования
•At least 3 years of commercial experience in functional and integration testing of backend systems
•Hands-on experience testing REST APIs
•Experience with integration testing across multiple interconnected systems
•Hands-on experience testing synchronous and asynchronous integrations using Kafka
•Understanding of event-driven architecture principles
•Strong SQL skills and experience validating database data
•Hands-on experience developing and maintaining automated tests for APIs and integrations; the programming language or framework is not essential
•Experience testing retries, timeouts, duplicate requests or events, integration failures, and recovery scenarios
•Understanding of HTTP, JSON, REST, and authentication and authorization mechanisms
•Experience analyzing logs and identifying root causes of defects in distributed systems
•Knowledge of test design techniques
•Experience validating data consistency across APIs, Kafka, and databases
•English at Intermediate level or above
Будет плюсом
•Experience in banking, payment, or fintech projects
•Understanding of payment transaction lifecycles and payment system principles
•Test automation with Go, Python, Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or similar tools
•Experience testing iOS and Android mobile applications
•Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes
Условия
•The opportunity to change projects and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain
•Mentoring and onboarding systems for every new employee
•Opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 EUR per month, depending on expertise, through participation in company activities; this amount is included in the annual bonus
•Access to the corporate training portal and its regularly updated knowledge base
•Corporate events and amenities, including parties, pizza days, PlayStation, fruit, coffee, snacks, and movies
•Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc.)
•Referral program
•Private health insurance and sports compensation, depending on the type of employment

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