Senior QAA Engineer (f/m/x)

DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Since its set-up in 2013, Bucharest Technology Centre (BEX) has constantly proven its capacity to deliver global technology products and services, playing a dynamic role in the Bank’s technology transformation.

We have a robust, hands-on engineering culture dedicated to continuous learning, knowledge-sharing, technical skill development and networking. We are an essential part of the Bank’s technology platform and develop applications for many important business areas.

This role is for a Senior QA Engineer / Senior Test Engineer within the Private Bank (PB) division at the Bucharest Excellence Centre, focusing on building world-class reporting solutions, ensuring data quality, robust testing automation, and contributing to cloud-native solutions.

The ideal candidate is an excellent tester, effective communicator, comfortable interacting with stakeholders, with a solid and proven background in testing complex database-centric projects, motivated to contribute to Oracle-based reporting, and excited about migrating and working with next-generation cloud data platforms, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Expertise extends to robust test automation, leveraging languages like Java

Responsibilities:

Analysis & Planning:

• Analyze business and technical requirements to gain a deep understanding of data flows, business logic, and system architecture, with a particular focus on database interactions and cloud integrations.
• Contribute to the creation and implementation of the overall Test Strategy and Test Plans, while taking ownership of defining specific, comprehensive test scenarios for data, application logic, and cloud components.
• Contribute to test effort estimation and proactively identify risks, particularly those related to data integrity, performance, and scalability on cloud platforms.

Design & Execution:

• Design, write, and maintain Test Cases to validate data integrity, transformation logic, and the accuracy of reporting outputs across various systems, including Oracle and GCP data services.
• Cover all aspects of testing, including functional, integration, regression, and End-to-End (E2E), with an emphasis on data-driven and API testing.
• Create and manage the test data required to validate complex scenarios, including large datasets for performance and stress testing in cloud environments.
• Rigorously execute testing activities, analyze, and document the results in detail, utilizing appropriate tools and frameworks (e.g., Java-based automation)

Defect Analysis & Reporting:

• Identify, troubleshoot, and document defects in JIRA, providing clear and detailed information for the development teams, including steps to reproduce issues in complex data and cloud architectures.
• Retest corrections to ensure defects are fully resolved.
• Coordinate testing activities with internal teams, third-party vendors, and business users (UAT Support).

Leadership & Continuous Improvement:

• Drive adherence to Deutsche Bank's testing standards and promote best practices within the team, particularly in data testing, cloud testing, and test automation.
• Organize monthly demo sessions to present project status to stakeholders.
• Actively contributes to the continuous improvement of development and testing processes, including fostering a culture of quality and automation

Skills:

Technical Requirements & Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in software testing, with a strong, demonstrated focus on complex data-centric projects and backend systems.
• Expertise in Database Testing: Strong, hands-on experience testing Oracle Databases is mandatory. This includes Data Integrity & Quality Validation, Database Objects Testing, Source-to-Target Validation, and Advanced SQL skills.
• Cloud Data Platform Experience: Proven experience or strong familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub) and ability to test applications and data pipelines deployed on GCP.
• Test Automation & Programming Skills: Solid programming skills in Java for developing robust and scalable test automation frameworks and scripts. Hands-on experience with tools like Selenium WebDriver, REST Assured, JUnit/TestNG leveraging Java.
• Methodologies & Tools: Proven experience with Agile meth