Senior Manual QA Engineer

At HexaIO we are looking for an experienced Senior Manual QA Engineer for one of our banking clients. You will join the renewal of the bank’s instant payment ecosystem, mainly testing backend services and APIs, in a hybrid setup with 3 days per week onsite in Budapest.

It is a strong advantage if you are comfortable looking beyond the user interface, for example reading logs and traces in Kibana, checking Kafka messages or verifying data directly in the database. If this is new to you but you are keen to learn it, we would still like to hear from you.

As a Manual QA Engineer, you will:

- Test backend services and APIs within the instant payment ecosystem, and cover frontend testing where needed.
- Design test cases from business and technical requirements together with analysts, developers and other project members.
- Run manual test cycles and document test execution and results in Jira.
- Log defects with clear reproduction steps, support the fixing process and retest the corrections.
- Verify transaction states and data consistency directly in the database with SQL queries.
- Analyse logs and traces in Kibana and follow Kafka message flows to pinpoint issues.
- Define test data needs and take part in creating and validating test data.

Requirements

- At least 5 years of professional experience in manual software testing
- Hands-on experience in API testing and SQL-based data validation
- Banking experience, preferably in payments and money transfer processes
- Understanding of instant payment flows, or solid technical skills to learn them quickly
- Analytical approach to requirements, with knowledge of Agile and other development methodologies
- Fluent Hungarian and good written English, with spoken English needed in the longer term

Hands-on familiarity with as many of the following as possible:

- Kibana or similar tools for log and trace analysis
- Kafka topics and message flows
- Relational databases and complex SQL queries
- REST APIs and JSON, tested with Postman or similar tools
- Microservice-based backend systems

Nice to Have

- Practical experience in Agile delivery teams, e.g. Scrum or Kanban
- ISTQB certification (Foundation Level or higher)
- Test planning and execution in Jira Xray
- Familiarity with ISO 20022 payment messages