Test Engineer

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

A bit about the role

Join our Technology R&D Lab as a Test Engineer building the next generation of API-first, composable banking solutions. You will create and maintain automated testing for our IBOR (Investment Book of Record) platform — a multi-tenant SaaS system serving financial institutions globally.

Working closely with our backend engineering team, you'll design testing strategies for our serverless, event-driven architecture running on AWS, ensuring quality, compliance, and resilience as we rapidly deploy new features.

Your key tasks

• Design and maintain automated API testing frameworks using tools like Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or similar for TypeScript/Node.js services
• Build integration test suites for event-driven architectures (SQS message flows, Lambda functions, DynamoDB operations)
• Develop performance and load testing scenarios for serverless applications using k6, Artillery, or Gatling
• Create test strategies for financial calculation accuracy (performance attribution, time-weighted returns, position keeping)
• Integrate automated tests into GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and rapid feedback
• Implement test data management strategies for multi-tenant environments with isolated tenant testing
• Partner with backend engineers to define testable service contracts and API specifications
• Champion quality engineering practices including test coverage analysis, mutation testing, and regression prevention

• 3-5+ years of experience in API and backend testing for distributed systems
• Strong experience with TypeScript or Node.js testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Chai, Supertest)
• Proven experience testing REST APIs and asynchronous/event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience with AWS services: Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, S3
• Experience with API testing tools (Postman, REST Assured, or similar)
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing integration (GitHub Actions preferred)
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work closely with engineering teams in an R&D environment
• Experience testing serverless applications and understanding Lambda execution models
• Knowledge of financial services systems (IBOR, portfolio accounting, performance calculations)
• Experience with performance testing tools for serverless (k6, Artillery, serverless-artillery)
• Experience testing infrastructure deployments (OpenTofu, Terraform, AWS CDK)
• Familiarity with LocalStack or similar tools for local AWS service emulation
• Experience with BDD practices and tools (Cucumber, Gherkin)
• Understanding of multi-tenant SaaS testing strategies
• Comfortable using GenAI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to accelerate test development
• Knowledge of compliance requirements for financial systems (SOC2, GDPR)

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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