QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer

Job ID: 5407

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 a test automation engineers to join our Martech & Sales Technology Department in Helsinki. If you have several years of experience in test automation frameworks and want to ensure correctness, compliance, and stability of NBA (next best action, an AI-driven decision-making strategy to identify the single most relevant interaction to take with a customer real-time) outcomes across releases, including data flows across Hadoop/Cloudera, Google Cloud Platform, and Pega CDH / Infinity, then read on!

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

Meet the core Next Best Action (NBA) team. Our mission is to build, govern and scale Nordea’s NBA capability as a Nordic-wide decisioning foundation, enabling relevant, data-driven and personalized customer interactions across markets, business areas and channels. We own the common decisioning frameworks, data and intelligence foundations, governance and platform enablement.

What you’ll be doing

In this role, your main responsibilities will be:

• Validate decision logic outcomes and eligibility behaviour
• Test data integration and model usage across on-prem (Hadoop/Cloudera), GCP/Snowflake and Pega CDH / Infinity
• Support system testing and SIT across distributed data pipelines and decisioning platforms
• Validate explainability, auditability, and regulatory requirements
• Ensure correctness and quality of data flows from Hadoop/Cloudera to GCP/Snowflake and into Pega decisioning platform
• Support MVP go-live and further releases
• Ensure compliance with Nordea Quality Standards

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you have:

• Engineering Mindset
• Attention to Detail
• Curiosity and Continuous Learning
• Pragmatism and Problem-Solving
• Experience in Big Data Technologies: strong knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem (Cloudera/MapR) including streaming technologies

Your background and skills include:

• Experience with leading quality assurance and test automation
• Hands-on experience with Robot Framework, Pytest, or similar
• Hands-on experience in Python, Bash, SQL, Java
• Practical experience with databases such as Hadoop HDFS, Apache Kafka, Apache Hive
• Experience with GCP CI/CD, Jenkins, JIRA, Bitbucket, Git, Docker
• Proven ability to analyze complex systems and identify quality risks
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or/and Snowflake, including data processing and storage services
• Experience validating data pipelines and large-scale data processing systems across on-prem and cloud environments
• Experience in testing data integration or decisioning outputs in Pega (CDH / Infinity) or similar systems is an advantage
• Proficiency in managing automated functional and non-functional testing on large-scale data infrastructure

It would be ideal if you also have knowledge with:

• Experience with Atlassian Suite (Confluence, JIRA)
• Solid understanding of financial service environments
• ISTQB Foundation Certificate
• Any Pega Certifications

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 27/09/2026. For more information about the position, you are more than welcome to contact recruiter Sanna Frisk at sanna.frisk@nordea.com

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.