Senior QA Engineer

IDnow is a leader in digital identity and fraud prevention in Europe with a mission to transform trust into the most powerful asset in the digital world, empowering enterprises with AI-driven, SaaS-based identity solutions that deliver scalable security, adaptive compliance, and real-time fraud prevention. Through its broad portfolio of digital identity and fraud prevention solutions, IDnow establishes, maintains and enriches trust throughout the customer journey, ensuring businesses can confidently and securely operate while leveraging digital identity to drive growth, security and scalability.

The company has offices in Germany, United Kingdom, Romania and France, and is backed by renowned institutional investors, including Corsair Capital and Seventure Partners. Its portfolio of international clients spans a wide range of end markets including financial services, telecommunications, travel & mobility, gaming, and other industries.

This position is based in Munich, Germany.

We are looking for a hands-on Senior QA Automation Engineer who can strengthen our product quality across Web, API, and Mobile platforms. In this role, you will build and maintain automated tests, validate end-to-end workflows, and support the stability of customer-facing integrations. You will collaborate with developers, embedded QA engineers, and platform teams to ensure releases meet customer expectations.

• Develop and maintain automated test suites for Web, Mobile (Appium), and Backend API flows.
• Implement integration tests across microservices using mocks, stubs, and reference backservers.
• Contribute to end-to-end automation of real customer workflows.
• Ensure repeatability, scalability, and stability of automated tests.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain test reporting and monitoring dashboards.
• Contribute to test data setup and staging environment readiness.

• Work closely with developers, embedded QAs, Product Owners, and DevOps.
• Engage early in feature development to identify risks and testability concerns.
• Support continuous improvement of automation and testing practices.

• Strong experience with Python.
• Experience with Selenium / Playwright for web automation.
• Hands-on experience with Appium for mobile automation.
• Strong REST API testing using Python requests.
• Knowledge of microservices and integration testing.
• CI/CD exposure and understanding of pipeline stages.
• Strong debugging mindset (logs, tracing, network calls).
• Self-driven, proactive, and hands-on.
• Strong debugging and analytical mindset.
• Capable of owning automation tasks end-to-end.
• Comfortable across backend, web, and mobile automation.

Nice to Have:

• Contract testing (JSON Schema, Pact).
• Experience testing mobile SDK flows.
• Familiarity with test containers/emulators.
• Experience in identity verification or security domains.

• Health & Wellbeing: Use your full access to the mental health platform nilo, including 1on1 sessions.
• We value personal and professional development: make full use of Udemy, our training platform with 24/7 access and unlimited content/course consumption incl. certification.
• We make your remote work comfy: we provide support on equipment and offer flexible working hours.
• We value collaboration & love to come together: regular onsite gatherings, internal initiatives and summer parties to connect outside of work.
• May your family require your attention or other reasons apply: use the benefit of our paid special leave days.
• Enjoy the possibility to combine work with a longer stay at your holiday destination or extend a weekend with our Workcation possibilities.
• In addition to the perks & benefits above, we offer specific benefits that differ between our locations.

IDnow applies the principles of non-discrimination and equality: We strive to establish, maintain, and promote an open and inclusive recruitment process and working environment by respecting the principles of equal opportunities. Including but not limited to: sex, race or ethnic origin, religion or convictions, gender identity, citizenship, marital status, disability, age, or sexual orientation.