Job Description

At OakNorth, we're on a mission to empower the UK's most ambitious businesses. Since 2015, we've lent over $18 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers - all while fuelling the UK economy.
Team Mission ?
We are looking for a hands-on SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) with 4-5 years of
experience in automation, primarily in Java, functional testing of front-end applications.
The role will cover UI and/or API automation in a dynamiclending/banking domain, built on
AWS cloud infrastructure
Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks (Java-based) for both UI and
• API layers.
• ?Build, execute, and maintain automated regression suites tied into CI/CD pipelines (e.g.,
• Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline).
• ?Collaborate with development, product, operations and QA teams from early requirement
• and design phases to production release, ensuring quality is built-in (shift-left).
• ?Define test strategies, identify test coverage gaps, ensure test data management,
• environment provisioning, and automate test execution in AWS environments (e.g., EC2,
• Lambda, containers).
• ?Validate functionality, performance and reliability of lending/banking domain-specific
• workflows (e.g., credit decisioning, loan lifecycle, user onboarding, payments, risk).
• ?Monitor, analyse and report test metrics and quality indicators; raise risks, drive
• continuous improvement in quality processes.
• ?Stay current with test automation tools, frameworks, best practices, and domain trends
• (fintech, lending, banking) and propose improvements.
• Required Skills & Experience
• ?4-5 years of professional experience as QA Automation Engineer / SDET with primary
• hands-on in Java.
• ?Strong experience in automation of UI (e.g., Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright) and
• API (e.g., RestAssured, Postman, Karate) layers - ideally both.
• ?Solid object-oriented programming skills (Java) and test framework experience (e.g.,
• TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber/BDD).
• ?Understanding of the banking/lending domain: loan application flows, credit approval,
• underwriting, lifecycle of financial products or banking operations.
• ?Good analytical and problem-solving capabilities; ability to work in fast paced, startup-style
• environment.
• ?Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams and geographies.
• Key Attributes
• ?Personal drive (proactive), responsible, and result-oriented.
• ?Flexible, curious, creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills.

Key Attributes

• Personal drive (proactive), responsible, and result-oriented.
• Flexible, curious, creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
• Fast learner with the ability to adapt to evolving technologies and frameworks.
• Strong team player with excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Domain experience in lending, credit risk, banking channels (digital banking, SME lending,

commercial lending).
Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline with 4-5
• years of work experience

Skills Required