Automation Lead

Job ID: 3643

 

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy.

 

We are looking for an Automation Lead to our Quality Assurance Team in Sanctions Technology.

 

Nordea is a place where traditions meet tomorrow. We're not just a bank, we're a tech employer on a mission to evolve finance securely and responsibly. Together, we impact millions of people’s daily lives by ensuring they can access our solutions anytime, anywhere, while safeguarding their personal data and wealth. Join us in making an impact on the banking industry.

 

About our team

 

Welcome to the Quality Assurance Team in Sanctions Technology. You will be joining a highly competent team of testers and automation engineers within Sanctions Technology. We work very closely with GFCP Sanctions business unit which sits within Nordea’s Group Financial Crime Prevention unit and comprises employees across Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Poland, the United Kingdom and consultants from IT services vendors in India. You’ll play a valuable role in increasing quality of delivered solutions, focusing on the different quality attributes.

 

What you’ll be doing:

• Implementing new functionalities and adjusting existing one to Java-based testing framework.
• Covering manual testers scenarios into Cucumber-based automation test cases.
• Driving AI enablement to optimize the processes and Reassess the working model and create a more flexible more effective working model.
• Rebuilding and refactoring testing framework to optimise test process and limit code failures.
• Running manually test flows - to understand tested product and be able to adjust and suggest most efficient testing process.
• Analysing data flows - to support DevOps team in solving environments bottlenecks.
• Cooperating with leads - to follow standards, ways of working and business requirements.
• Reviewing code of other test engineers.
• Working closely with Testing, Development, DevOps and Product Management teams in a Continuous Delivery environment.
• Communicate test results on a timely basis with all stakeholders and defect reporting.
• Supporting Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for test libraries.
• Identifying and implementing improvements for day-to-day tasks/challenges.

 

Who you are

 

To succeed in this role, we believe that you are/have:

• Hands on experience in end to end test automation process and strategic thinking mindset
• A proactive, innovative and solution & self-driven mindset especially AI driven.
• Technically strong and passionate about getting to know modern technologies supported with AI.
• Eager to learn and comfortable with delivering a variety of tasks in an evolving and changing environment with AI adaptability.
• Demonstrate a high degree of structure, flexibility, planning and prioritization skills, and delivers in a timely manner, with focus on quality.
• Familiar with working in a complex environment with multiple streams cross multiple internal organizations, with people from different cultures and companies.

 

Your background and skills include:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Have good hands on experience in automation test using JAVA Programming-Selenium.
• Experience in testing with JMS messaging systems-IBM MQ
• Have good knowledge in Java coding, SQL, Git, Maven
• Understanding of Design Patterns and Clean code principles like SOLID, YAGNI, KISS 
• Have hands on experience with: Cucumber, IntelliJ IDE, Jenkins, JIRA, qTest, GIT, Putty, Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana.
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experienced working agile according to SAFe.
• Fluent in English, spoken and written.

 

Our technology stack may include, but is not limited to:

• We mainly use selenium based framework for automation as of today. Our technical stack includes Java, Jboss, Oracle, MQ, file shares, SFTP, Linux, ETL (Data Stage).

 

It would be nice if you also:

• Have solid grounding in Financial Services industry.
• Have proficiency in managing End to end Automation testing on a large-scale project.
• Are ISTQB Certified.

 

What we offer

 

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

 

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

 

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

 

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

 

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

 

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

 

Next steps

 

​Submit your application no later than 10/06/2026.

 

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