Associate, Quality Engineer - Corporate Functions

About the Position

We are looking for a Quality Engineer to join our Corporate Functions team in Sofia, Bulgaria. This role is pivotal in embedding quality engineering practices across multiple delivery teams or squads. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on quality owner capable of operating effectively across different projects or delivery priorities, rapidly switching context while maintaining consistent quality standards and clear oversight of delivery risks.

Responsibilities

• Own quality across two or more delivery teams or workstreams.
• Design and execute functional, integration, and regression test scenarios across enterprise applications.
• Collaborate with developers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts to ensure user stories are testable and clearly defined.
• Build and maintain automated test suites and reusable test assets.
• Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps.
• Drive root cause analysis, risk-based testing, and continuous quality improvements.
• Advocate for a quality-first approach across Agile ceremonies and delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to replace manual testing with scalable automation.

Requirements

• 7+ years' experience in Quality Assurance, software testing, or Quality Engineering.
• Strong experience testing APIs, integrations, and service-based applications.
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools such as Cypress, Playwright, REST-assured, Postman, or similar.
• Experience working in Agile environments and applying practices such as BDD, TDD, and Pairing.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of UI testing across web and mobile applications.
• Experience working with Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Xray, or similar tooling.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles and quality assurance best practices.
• Experience testing enterprise applications built using modern web technologies and microservices architectures.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to support functional testing, test automation, and quality analysis.
• Experience with performance and non-functional testing tools such as JMeter.
• Knowledge of cloud environments such as Azure or AWS.
• Experience testing RESTful services and microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Knowledge of JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, SCSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience within banking, financial services, or other regulated industries.
• Exposure to monitoring and testing tools such as Application Insights, Mailpit, or Mailhog.

We Offer

• Varied, stimulating, and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public, and private sectors across the regions we invest in.
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity. Our workforce reflects a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, bringing fresh ideas, energy, and innovation and enhancing our ability to serve our clients, shareholders, and counterparties effectively.
• We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and believe we operate at our best when collaborating 3 days a week in person (minimum).
• An environment that places sustainability, equality, and digital transformation at the heart of what we do.
• A workplace that prioritizes employee wellbeing and provides a comprehensive suite of competitive benefits.

About the Company

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.

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.

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