Senior Automation QA (Java)

About the Position

We are DXC Luxoft Financial Services - an award-winning provider of technology solutions, dedicated to the Financial Services sector. Join our international team and become a member of our open-minded, progressive, and professional team of financial services consultants. In this role, you will be working on projects for the biggest investment banks across the globe. You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise in the Capital Markets industry. On top of an attractive salary and benefits package, we will invest in your professional training and allow you to grow your professional career.

Team overview:
We are building a dedicated engineering squad in Bucharest (4 Java Developers + 4 QA Automation Engineers) to support a large-scale modernization and technical debt reduction program within financial markets IT systems.

Responsibilities

This initiative focuses on:

• Upgrading legacy applications to modern Spring Boot versions (2.x → 3.x)
• Decommissioning and replacing Hazelcast across distributed systems
• Refactoring applications to align with modern, cloud-ready, stateless architectures
• Enhancing integration with event-driven systems using Apache Kafka
• Supporting applications connected to Murex batch and real-time processing flows

This is a high-impact program in a low-latency financial environment, where system stability, performance, and correctness are critical.

We are seeking a Lead Java developer who can design and build solutions with minimal supervision for our team. The person needs to be knowledgeable in modern software development practices including Scrums, be up to date with the latest Java tools and frameworks, and be able to work with the existing team to deliver solutions. The ideal candidate will be diligent, tenacious, and delivery-focused with a track record of building high-quality solutions that are resilient and maintainable. Use of cloud technology is increasing, so experience working with AWS would be beneficial.

Design and implement solutions for:

• Spring Boot & Hazelcast upgrades (including major version transitions)
• Analyze existing distributed system usage (caching, clustering, locking)
• Refactor applications toward stateless, scalable microservices
• Implement and optimize integrations using Kafka-based event-driven architecture
• Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and architecture teams on migration and rollout strategy
• Ensure high standards of performance, resilience, and fault tolerance
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and production support

Post-project opportunity:
Following successful delivery of this modernization initiative, team members are planned to be reassigned to other strategic programs within the client’s long-term roadmap, offering continued growth and exposure to new initiatives.

Requirements

Must Have

Technical

• Strong experience in Java (11–17+)
• Deep knowledge of Spring Boot (microservices, REST APIs, configuration)
• Hands-on experience with Hazelcast or similar distributed caching technologies
• Experience with Apache Kafka
• Oracle RDBMS
• Atlassian suite (e.g., JIRA, Stash and Jenkins, GitLab)
• GIT
• Unix/Linux/Windows

QA Automation (for QA roles)

• Test automation frameworks (JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, RestAssured)
• API and integration testing
• CI/CD integration
• Performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling)
• Linux/Unix environments

Nice to Have

Business

• Knowledge of capital markets and financial risk management (market and/or credit risk)
• Forex Transactions would be an asset

Technical

• AWS

We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Professional training and career growth opportunities
• Remote work options
• Opportunity to work on high-impact projects in the financial services sector

About the Company

We are DXC Luxoft Financial Services - an award-winning provider of technology solutions, dedicated to the Financial Services sector. Join our international team and become a member of our open-minded, progressive, and professional team of financial services consultants. In this role, you will be working on projects for the biggest investment banks across the globe. You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise in the Capital Markets industry. On top of an attractive salary and benefits package, we will invest in your professional training and allow you to grow your professional career.