Senior DevOps Engineer, Test Automation

Project overview

A large German bank is expanding a long-term platform project with a new team. The platform consists of Spring Boot microservices communicating via Kafka and running on Kubernetes. Four teams are already developing functional features. The new team tests the entire platform end-to-end in an automated test suite. They are responsible for the tooling and pipeline of test automation and write the code that connects the tools. This is an engineering role with a lot of hands-on involvement, not test management.

Responsibilities

• Building and operating the end-to-end test automation pipeline across the entire platform
• Integrating test tooling into CI/CD and Kubernetes deployments with Helm and ArgoCD
• Creating behavior-driven tests with Playwright and Gauge
• Building API integrations between test tooling, Jira, Confluence, and ALM Octane to document test evidence for regulatory purposes
• Tracking and debugging Kafka message flows between services
• Implementing complex business processes in automated tests
• Collaborating with test managers, architects, and business departments of the client

Requirements

Desirable

Job facts: Direct client project

• Solid experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer or Software Engineer, ideally with a background in software development
• Microservices and distributed systems
• Kafka, including debugging and understanding message flows
• Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD or other GitOps tools
• Playwright
• BDD, ideally with Gauge or a comparable tool
• API integrations and glue code between CI/CD and test tooling
• Fluent German language skills
• Java and Spring Boot
• ALM Octane
• Experience in the banking or financial sector

Project details

Remote, Germany (2 on-site days per quarter)

Area: Engineering, Test Automation

Contract Type: Freelance

Start Date: 01.12.2026 or 01.01.2027

12 months (extension likely)

• Start: 2026-12
• Location: DE
• Languages: German