Automation QA Engineer

About Estreem

Estreem is the new standard for payment processing in Europe. Born from a strategic partnership between two major French banking groups, BNP Paribas and BPCE, Estreem is an independent fintech launched in February 2025. Its ambition: to become the leading sovereign payment processor in France, capable of operating across Europe. In a rapidly transforming payments sector, Estreem positions itself as a disruptive force, combining security, technological agility, and economic competitiveness. The goal is clear: to quickly become part of the TOP 3 European processors. With a next-generation platform, Estreem covers the entire card processing value chain, from software editing to operational management, leveraging a cutting-edge infrastructure (cloud). It handles all major payment schemes (CB, Visa, Mastercard) as well as new European schemes, like Wero. Designed from its inception to extend its reach beyond French borders, Estreem aims to become a pillar of European strategic autonomy in payments. The 3 'E's of Estreem summarize its DNA: Technological Excellence, business Expertise, and a strong European vision.

Your Missions

As a QA Automation Engineer, you will join the Quality team and work on all our payment solutions (Acquiring, Issuing, Disputes, etc.). At Estreem, QA is involved from the design phase, allowing you to contribute directly to defining workflows, identifying risks, and structuring quality from the very beginning of projects. Your objective: secure deliveries by automating tests and building robust acceptance strategies, while adding real value to the reliability and performance of our payment solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively participate in agile rituals: daily stand-ups, poker planning, retrospectives, sprint reviews, demos.
• Collaborate closely with developers and Business Analysts in a continuous improvement approach.
• Challenge specifications, acceptance criteria, and the breakdown into User Stories.
• Take ownership of and improve existing test kits (including non-regression).
• Define the test strategy and associated data sets.
• Write tests in Gherkin (Cucumber) and automation JavaScript functions.
• Execute automated and manual test campaigns.
• Track anomalies, report alerts, and feed progress indicators.
• Control the quality of acceptance reports (Jira / XRay).

Additional Responsibilities (depending on the squad)

• Tests related to cards: ceiling changes, blocking, activation of Apple Pay / Google Pay / Samsung Pay.
• Authorization tests on various scopes: proximity, e-commerce, fuel, highway, open payment, fund transfers...
• Multi-currency tests: EUR, XPF, USD, GBP...
• Simulations of communication between payment terminals and banking processors.
• HMI tests with Cucumber and Selenium.
• Performance tests (Dynatrace, Yourkit...).
• Technical tests around Kafka, Rest APIs, Prometheus indicators, etc.

By joining Estreem, you will develop true expertise in payment processing, closely aligned with the technical and functional challenges of the sector.

Required Profile

• Engineering degree or Master's in Computer Science.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in test automation.
• First experience in automating server environments / CI-CD, including:
• Contribution to the implementation or improvement of CI/CD pipelines.
• Automation of server processes.
• Understanding of continuous integration and deployment best practices.
• First experience in test industrialization, particularly on the back-end component.

Technical Skills and Stack

• API Testing: proven mastery.
• Automation & Programming: Cucumber + JavaScript.
• JavaScript Execution Environment: Node.js.
• Integration of tests into CI/CD pipelines (XlRelease or equivalent).
• Linux Environment & Cloud Containerization.
• Agile Methodology & tools like Jira (experience or dedicated training).
• Deployment of Generative AI (GenAI) initiatives.

What We Value

• A product mindset: impact, user-centricity, sustainable quality.
• Ability to challenge and take a step back.
• Curiosity: a desire to learn and evolve.

Languages

• French: fluent (C2).
• English: professional (B2-C1).

Job Characteristics

• Location: Lyon.
• Start Date: As soon as possible.
• Contract Type: Permanent employment Estreem.
• Remote Work: Up to 10 days per month, limited to a maximum of 3 days per week.
• Status: Executive level.

Compensation & Benefits

• Possibility of employee savings plan (CET).
• SWILE card (meal voucher).
• FMD (soft mobility package).
• Employee savings plans (PEE, PERCO), profit-sharing, matching contributions.

We are committed to a quality approach and will receive each candidate with kindness and respect. Please note, this position is open to people with disabilities. Finally, we place particular importance on our future employees acting daily with ethical and professional responsibility. At any time during the recruitment process, the information on your CV, your identification data, and your background may be verified.

Key skills/competency

QA Automation Engineer, Test Automation, API Testing, Cucumber, JavaScript, CI/CD, Agile Methodology, Jira, Linux, Cloud Containerization, Payment Processing, Back-end Testing.