Test Automation Platform Engineer (80-100%)

About the role

Julius Baer is looking for a Test Automation Platform Engineer to join its product team in Madrid. Working as part of an agile release train, you will build and evolve a global test automation platform that helps development teams across the bank deliver high-quality software faster and with greater confidence. The role suits engineers who enjoy ownership, shaping technical solutions and creating an outstanding developer experience.

Key responsibilities

• Own and evolve the bank's global test automation platform as a member of a product-oriented engineering team.
• Drive the platform lifecycle end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to operation and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with development teams to understand their needs, gather feedback and turn it into platform capabilities.
• Improve developer experience by fixing pain points and enhancing workflows and self-service capabilities.
• Promote testing-as-code through an API-first platform with seamless CI/CD integration.
• Build and improve self-service capabilities for test data generation, test execution and reporting.
• Contribute to the platform roadmap and shape the future of software quality engineering.

Required profile

• Proven background in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• Experience building, operating or extending test automation solutions, engineering platforms or developer tooling.
• Hands-on experience with performance, functional or end-to-end testing frameworks.
• Software engineer or platform engineer experience, ideally with Java or TypeScript.
• Product mindset, ownership, proactive improvement and comfort in agile environments.

Required skills

• Familiarity with tools such as Playwright, k6, Selenium or comparable testing technologies.
• Knowledge of modern software engineering practices, APIs, automation and cloud-native technologies.
• Advantage: integrating testing solutions with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab and issuing test reports into ticketing systems like Jira.