Quality Assurance Engineer*

Quality Assurance Engineer*

BAWAG Group is the listed holding company of BAWAG, one of Austria´s largest banks with more than 4 million customers.
As a dynamic employer, we promote talent and drive technological innovation forward at a rapid pace.
Flat hierarchies, a flexible working environment and equal opportunities for our employees are particularly important to us.

About the Role

• We're looking for a QA Engineer who doesn't just find bugs -- they prevent them.
• You'll be embedded in a cross-functional product team, working closely with developers and a Product Owner to build quality in from day one. You write code, you break things on purpose, and you use AI to work faster and smarter.
• One thing that makes this role different: we already run an AI agent pipeline on the product side. Ideas get shaped, analysed, broken down and turned into Jira tickets by a chain of AI agents with a human reviewing every gate. It works, and it's changed how fast we move.
• What we don't have yet is the equivalent on the quality side. That's yours to build.

Your Responsibility

**The QA craft**

• Design and maintain automated test suites (E2E, integration, regression) with Playwright as the primary tool
• Write and execute test strategies for Angular frontends and Java backends
• Build and own CI pipeline quality gates -- no broken build makes it to staging on your watch
• Perform API testing (REST, Postman/Newman, contract testing)
• Contribute to test data management and environment stability
• Conduct exploratory testing focused on edge cases and real user journeys
• Triage defects, reproduce them reliably, and communicate impact clearly
• Champion quality practices across the team -- you're the one who raises the bar

**The AI side**

• Extend our existing AI agent pipeline into QA -- the same way we generate requirements today, we want to generate test plans, test cases and Gherkin specs that are actually good enough to use
• Plug into the pipeline upstream: acceptance criteria written by an agent should come out testable, and you're the one who makes sure they do
• Use AI to expand coverage, hunt edge cases a human wouldn't think of, and keep test suites from rotting
• Build the prompts, context files and guardrails that make agent output reliable rather than plausible-looking
• Decide what AI should *not* touch -- some things need a human, and knowing where that line sits is part of the job
• Review everything. AI output that ships unreviewed is a defect waiting to happen, and you own that standard for the team

Your Profile

• **5+ years in QA** with a strong automation focus
• **Playwright** -- you've built and maintained E2E suites from scratch; you understand selectors, fixtures, page object models and parallel execution
• **SQL** -- you write queries confidently, understand joins and indexes, and validate data at the source without asking a developer
• **AI-assisted testing** -- you actively use AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT or similar) in your day-to-day. You know what a good prompt looks like, you've been burned by a bad one, and you can tell the difference between output that's correct and output that just reads well
• Solid understanding of Angular applications and how to test them (component, E2E, snapshot)
• Comfortable reading and writing Java or TypeScript -- you're not just clicking around
• Experience testing REST APIs -- HTTP, auth flows, JSON schemas
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins preferred -- that's what we run)
• Knowledge of test pyramid principles -- you know when *not* to write an E2E test

## Strong Plus

• **Power BI** -- you build dashboards and reports the team actually uses (quality metrics, coverage, defect trends), not ones that get opened once
• **Jira + Xray** or similar test management tooling
• Experience in **banking, fintech or another regulated industry** -- you understand why the audit trail matters
• You've built something with AI agents before -- custom instructions, agent workflows, MCP, RAG, whatever it was. Tell us what worked and what didn't

## Nice to Have

• OWASP Top 10 awareness
• Exposure to performance testing (k6, JMeter)
• Understanding of accessibility testing (WCAG 2.1)

## What We Value

• You ask **why** before you test what
• You treat flaky tests as bugs, not noise
• You're genuinely curious about AI, but you're not a believer -- you've seen it get things confidently wrong and you check the output
• You give honest, constructive feedback in code reviews
• You document just enough -- clear, not exhaustive
• You care about the end customer, not just the ticket

Our Offer

• You will spend 50% of your working time in our modern and easily accessible office at Vienna Central Station.
• We support your personal development and career planning with an individual and attractive training program. Visit our BAWAG Academy and use our GoodHabitz elearning platform for both your professional and personal growth.
• In addition, we offer a range of interesting and valuable additional benefits.

For this position, the collective agreement stipulates a minimum annual gross salary of EUR 47.255,60 on a full-time basis. Depending on your experience and qualifications, we are willing to offer a higher salary.

Your contact person: Jutta Durstberger +43 664 80998 22099

• We value people.

Would you like to work in a team where good cooperation and diversity are actively practiced? Then you've come to the right place. Equal opportunity is important to us - regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, physical impairment, religion or origin.

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BAWAG Group