Quality Assurance Engineer*

Quality Assurance Engineer
* BAWAG Group is the listed holding company of BAWAG, one of Austrias largest banks with more than 4 million customers. As a dynamic employer, we promote talent and drive technological innovation forward at a rapid pace. Flat hierarchies, a flexible working environment and equal opportunities for our employees are particularly important to us.

About the Role
* We're looking for a QA Engineer who doesn't just find bugs -
- they prevent them.
* You'll be embedded in a cross-functional product team, working closely with developers and a Product Owner to build quality in from day one. You write code, you break things on purpose, and you use AI to work faster and smarter.
* One thing that makes this role different: we already run an AI agent pipeline on the product side. Ideas get shaped, analysed, broken down and turned into Jira tickets by a chain of AI agents with a human reviewing every gate. It works, and it's changed how fast we move.
* What we don't have yet is the equivalent on the quality side. That's yours to build. Your Responsibility The QA craft
* Design and maintain automated test suites (E2E, integration, regression) with Playwright as the primary tool
* Write and execute test strategies for Angular frontends and Java backends
* Build and own CI pipeline quality gates -
- no broken build makes it to staging on your watch
* Perform API testing (REST, Postman/Newman, contract testing)
* Contribute to test data management and environment stability
* Conduct exploratory testing focused on edge cases and real user journeys
* Triage defects, reproduce them reliably, and communicate impact clearly
* Champion quality practices across the team -
- you're the one who raises the bar The AI side
* Extend our existing AI agent pipeline into QA -
- the same way we generate requirements today, we want to generate test plans, test cases and Gherkin specs that are actually good enough to use
* Plug into the pipeline upstream: acceptance criteria written by an agent should come out testable, and you're the one who makes sure they do
* Use AI to expand coverage, hunt edge cases a human wouldn't think of, and keep test suites from rotting
* Build the prompts, context files and guardrails that make agent output reliable rather than plausible-looking
* Decide what AI should *not
* touch -
- some things need a human, and knowing where that line sits is part of the job
* Review everything. AI output that ships unreviewed is a defect waiting to happen, and you own that standard for the team

Your Profile
* 5+ years in QA with a strong automation focus
* Playwright -
- you've built and maintained E2E suites from scratch; you understand selectors, fixtures, page object models and parallel execution
* SQL -
- you write queries confidently, understand joins and indexes, and validate data at the source without asking a developer
* AI-assisted testing -
- you actively use AI tools (Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT or similar) in your day-to-day. You know what a good prompt looks like, you've been burned by a bad one, and you can tell the difference between output that's correct and output that just reads well
* Solid understanding of Angular applications and how to test them (component, E2E, snapshot)
* Comfortable reading and writing Java or TypeScript -
- you're not just clicking around
* Experience testing REST APIs -
- HTTP, auth flows, JSON schemas
* Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins preferred -
- that's what we run)
* Knowledge of test pyramid principles -
- you know when *not
* to write an E2E test ## Strong Plus
* Power BI -
- you build dashboards and reports the team actually uses (quality metrics, coverage, defect trends), not ones that get opened once
* Jira + Xray or similar test management tooling
* Experience in banking, fintech or another regulated industry -
- you understand why the audit trail matters
* You've built something with AI agents before -
- custom instructions, agent workflows, MCP, RAG, whatever it was. Tell us what worked and what didn't ## Nice to Have
* OWASP Top 10 awareness
* Exposure to performance testing (k6, JMeter)
* Understanding of accessibility testing (WCAG 2.1) ## What We Value
* You ask why before you test what
* You treat flaky tests as bugs, not noise
* You're genuinely curious about AI, but you're not a believer -
- you've seen it get things confidently wrong and you check the output
* You give honest, constructive feedback in code reviews
* You document just enough -
- clear, not exhaustive
* You care about the end customer, not just the ticket Our Offer
* You will spend 50% of your working time in our modern and easily accessible office at Vienna Central Station.
* We support your personal development and career planning with an individual and attractive training program. Visit our