Technical Tester to a Major Bank

Are you ready to shape the future of payments in one of the leading banks in the Nordics? Swedbank is looking for a quality-focused and driven QA/Test Engineer to join their agile team working with critical payment solutions. In this role, you’ll contribute to services that impact millions of customers daily—while growing your skills in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

About the role

As a Technical Tester, you will play a pivotal role in a cross-functional agile team within Swedbank's Payment Execution Agile Release Train. You will ensure the quality and reliability of critical payment services by collaborating closely with domain experts, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on continuous improvement.

You are offered

• A fixed-term employment at Academic Work for 6-12 months. Fixed monthly salary.
• Great opportunity for over-recruitment for the right person!

Work tasks

This role involves ensuring the quality and performance of payment infrastructure through comprehensive testing, analysis, and collaboration within an agile framework.

• Test and maintain critical services and functionality within the payments area
• Analyze product requirements, technical impacts, system processes, and solution designs
• Write unit, functional, and end-to-end tests, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios
• Take part in non-functional and performance testing for large transaction volumes
• Develop and maintain reports and dashboards to communicate system status to stakeholders
• Work closely with domain experts in payments, architecture, and mainframe systems
• Contribute to the development of your team and the entire release train

We are looking for

• 1–2 years of experience in testing and quality assurance of complex software systems
• Good knowledge of methods and tools used in software testing
• Experience from banking, finance, or insurance industries
• Advanced knowledge of agile ways of working (e.g., SAFe, Scrum)
• Proficient in English, spoken and written

It is meritorious if you have

• Good experience from the payment domain
• Good experience from ongoing initiatives such as ISO20022, Bank/plusgiro transformation, SEPA, or similar
• Proficient in Swedish

To succeed in the role, your personal skills are:

• Ability to communicate with IT and business stakeholders to reach common understanding.
• A driven, proactive, self-organized, and analytical approach with a strive to continuously improve.

Our recruitment process

This recruitment process is handled by Academic Work and it is our client’s wish that all questions regarding the position is directed to Academic Work.

Our selection process is continuous and the advert may close before the recruitment process is completed if we have moved forward to the next phase. The process includes two tests: one personality test and one cognitive test. The tests are tools to find the right talent for the right position, to enable equality, diversity, and a fair process.