Top 3 reasons to join us

• International world-class fintech products
• Top notch clients in developed finance markets
• Advance career while maintaining valued wellbeing

Job description

About the job

Saafehouse builds technology that supports secure cash, asset and client-money operations, including reconciliations, approvals, payments, reporting, document management and integrations for developed financial markets.

We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our growing in-house engineering team in Vietnam. We are bringing ownership of our fintech platform in-house: you will learn the existing platform, the existing manual test suite and product knowledge while working alongside our engineering partner, then gradually build a reliable automation testing pipeline.

This is a senior hands-on role. You will stay close to the testing work while helping junior QA engineers develop the skills and confidence to share the workload, working closely with the Head of Engineering and the Product Owner.

Location: Hybrid at Saafehouse VN office, Da Nang.

Your skills and experience

Your responsibilities

• Implement internal QA workflows that work alongside our engineering partner, then gradually build a reliable automated testing pipeline.
• Define a practical automation strategy, select the right E2E framework and establish maintainable standards.
• Prioritise and automate critical user journeys while retaining exploratory and manual testing where it adds value.
• Integrate reliable automated testing into CI/CD to improve release confidence and feedback speed.
• Own the approach to test environments, test data, failure diagnosis and automation stability.
• Partner with developers, QA, the Product Owner and Head of Engineering to improve quality across the delivery lifecycle.
• Remain hands-on while mentoring junior QA engineers, sharing knowledge and distributing work effectively.

Your skills and experience

• Strong experience testing production web applications and building maintainable automation suites.
• Strong practical experience with a modern E2E testing framework such as Playwright or Cypress.
• Good understanding of test strategy, the test pyramid and the roles of unit, API, integration and end-to-end testing.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD, including fast smoke checks and broader regression coverage.
• Experience managing test data, environment dependencies and independent test execution.
• A systematic approach to diagnosing flaky tests, asynchronous behaviour, dynamic UI elements and backend or environment failures.
• The judgement to prioritise business-critical flows and stable coverage before over-engineering the framework.
• Strong exploratory-testing skills and the ability to turn product risks and manual knowledge into clear, reusable test cases.
• Clear communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate with developers, QA, product colleagues and external partners.
• Experience mentoring junior team members and helping them contribute independently.
• Our platform is built on modern web technologies, relational databases and AWS cloud services, with Git and GitHub for day-to-day development. You do not need experience with every tool; strong experience with a comparable modern stack and the ability to learn an existing system quickly matter more.
• Clear written and spoken English, with the ability to work directly with UK leadership.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech or another regulated environment.
• Experience with API testing and data validation.
• Experience testing multi-tenant products.
• Experience in a vendor-to-in-house transition or working alongside an outsourced engineering partner.

Why you'll love working here

Compensation and wellbeing

• Attractive salary.
• 13th-month salary.
• Performance bonus.
• 20 days of paid annual leave and 7 days of paid sick leave.
• Statutory social, health and unemployment insurance co-contributions based on full gross salary, subject to Vietnamese law.
• Premium healthcare.
• Extra benefits recognising your work anniversary.

Workplace and development

• Hybrid working at our Saafehouse VN office in Da Nang.
• A practical, capable team with strong engineering standards. We value trust, direct communication, empathy and good humour — and believe people do their best work when they feel supported and respected.
• Build the automation capability from an early stage and have a real influence on how quality engineering works at Saafehouse.
• Learn directly from Saafehouse's UK fintech founder and Head of Engineering, gaining close insight into the business, customers, financial operations and technical decisions behind the product.
• Work on a meaningful fintech platform where security, reliability and financial integrity matter — and see the impact of your work.
• Significant career and personal-development opportunities as the Vietnam engineering organisation grows.
• Training and education support for relevant technical, security and financial-services development.
• Free drinks and snacks in the office.