Mid-level QA Engineer, Platform

Purpose of Job

Engineer reliability at scale. We’re looking for a DevOps Quality Engineer who thrives at the crossroads of infrastructure, cloud, and automation. You’ll test and validate deployments across data centres, branch offices, and Azure environments, making sure every release delivers resilience, uptime, and performance. From IaC verification and smoke testing to scripting automation for regression detection, you’ll be the safeguard ensuring that platforms are as dependable as they are cutting-edge.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Plans and performs testing of infrastructure changes, configuration updates, and cloud deployments across data centres, branch offices, and Azure environments, ensuring functional and non-functional validations.
• Collaborates with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Cloud Platform teams to verify IaC deployments, perform smoke testing post-deployment, and document any issues in platform reliability.
• Writes and maintains basic automation scripts or checklists for network, AV, and platform components, contributing to regression detection and provisioning assurance.
• Investigates environment or deployment defects, escalates issues with supporting diagnostics, and retests fixes with attention to uptime, latency, and failover coverage.
• Engages in sprint reviews and planning sessions, raising risks tied to infrastructure changes, recommending testing scope for AV, cloud services, or network resilience improvements.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Holds ISTQB Foundation as a minimum; Advanced Test Analyst or equivalent certifications desirable.

• Qualification in IT Service Management (ITIL v3 or v4 Foundation) or demonstrable experience integrating QA practices into ITSM processes.

• Familiar with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), with practical awareness of how they influence quality standards and assurance planning.

• Demonstrates solid understanding of automation and non-functional testing concepts, including performance, accessibility, and shift-left/shift-right practices.

• Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and product-aligned teams, contributing to sprint-based delivery and continuous integration testing strategies.

• Proficient in test tooling and CI/CD frameworks including Azure DevOps, Selenium, Cypress, Jenkins, Git, and test management platforms such as TestRail or Zephyr.

• Familiarity with AI/ML use cases in quality engineering, including AI-assisted test case generation, defect clustering, and predictive analytics. including functional, integration, regression, and exploratory techniques.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain test scenarios, defects, and coverage to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Awareness of security, compliance, and resilience considerations such as OWASP Top 10, ISO 27001, GDPR, and DORA, with practical experience embedding these into quality practices.

• Understanding of the importance of data privacy, test data masking, and regulatory obligations. Has experience with data quality and synthetic data generation tools.

• Familiarity with Azure, IaC tools (Terraform, ARM), and scripting.

• Experience in functional and performance testing of infrastructure deployments.

• Understands platform metrics (e.g., uptime, latency, cost performance).

• Awareness of NIST and DORA-aligned resilience principles

What is it like to work at the EBRD?

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in. 

We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and believe we operate at our best when collaborating 3 days a week in person (minimum).

The EBRD environment provides you with:

• 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;
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital  transformation at the heart of what we do.

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  A diverse workforce with the right knowledge and skills enables connection with our clients, brings pioneering ideas, energy and innovation. The EBRD staff is characterised by its rich diversity of nationalities, cultures and opinions and we aim to sustain and build on this strength. 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, sexual orientation or disabilities.  As an inclusive employer, we promote flexible working and expecting our employee to attend the office 50% of their working time.

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).