Specialist Automation Engineer, Actimize at Nice

At NiCE, we don’t limit our challenges. We challenge our limits. Always. We’re ambitious. We’re game changers. And we play to win. We set the highest standards and execute beyond them. And if you’re like us, we can offer you the ultimate career opportunity that will light a fire within you. What’s the role all about? In this role as a Specialist Automation Engineer (QA), you will operate as a key individual contributor supporting the quality engineering needs of Actimize Platform Solution Products. You will apply deep functional testing expertise, advanced automation engineering skills, and experience working with cloud‑native and distributed systems to ensure high‑quality, scalable, and resilient SaaS components used by global financial institutions. You will participate in requirement reviews, grooming, sprint planning, and design discussions to influence testability and automation feasibility. You will maintain and even advance automation frameworks, strengthen test coverage across UI, API, microservices, and cloud workflows, and contribute to performance and stability validations. You will collaborate with Product, Development, and Architecture teams to streamline QA practices, support CI/CD integration, and ensure predictable, high‑quality releases across the platform. How will you make an impact? NiCE Actimize is the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for regional and global financial institutions and has been consistently ranked as number one in the space. At NiCE Actimize, we recognize that every employee’s contributions are integral to our company’s growth and success. To find and acquire the best and brightest talent around the globe, we offer a challenging work environment, competitive compensation and benefits, and rewarding career opportunities. Come share, grow and learn with us – you’ll be challenged, you’ll have fun, and you’ll be part of a fast‑growing, highly respected organization. This new SaaS platform enables our customers — some of the world’s largest financial institutions — to build solutions that fight financial crime. As a Specialist Automation Engineer, you will: ✅ Experience Expectation • Bring 8+ years of hands‑on IT experience in functional testing, automation development, and quality engineering within product‑based or SaaS environments. ✅ Technical Leadership in an IC Capacity • Serve as a technical expert and mentor in QA and automation while remaining an individual contributor. • Provide best‑practice guidance on automation architecture, code quality, and framework optimization. • Uplift quality processes through deep domain knowledge and analytical problem‑solving. ✅ Advanced Automation Engineering • Maintain and even advance automation frameworks supporting functional, regression, API, and microservices testing. • Work with Selenium, Playwright, TestNG, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and related automation tooling. • Improve automation architecture, reliability, and CI/CD integration for fast, stable execution cycles. • Expand automation coverage across UI, backend, microservices, and cloud‑native components of Actimize Platform Solution Products. ✅ Performance Testing • Implement and maintain performance testing frameworks using tools such as JMeter. • Establish performance benchmarks, analyze results, identify bottlenecks, and recommend optimizations. • Partner with engineering and DevOps teams to ensure performance readiness for scaled cloud‑native environments. ✅ Containerized & Cloud Environments • Develop test strategies for applications deployed in Docker, Kubernetes, and microservice‑based environments. • Validate cloud‑native workflows, observability, scaling, and behavior across AWS. • Ensure robust testing approaches for distributed, multi‑tenant SaaS systems. ✅ Department‑Level Reporting & Continuous Improvement • Contribute to team‑wide and department‑level QA metrics, dashboards, and reporting. • Identify and drive improvements in processes, automation pipelines, and test execution efficiency. Have you got what it takes? • 8+ years of hands‑on experience in manual and automation testing within product‑based organizations. • Strong expertise in Java, TestNG, Selenium, and sound understanding of Playwright. • Experience designing and enhancing automation frameworks for maintainability and scalability. • Proficiency in relational databases (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL). • Good understanding of JavaScript, HTML5, and VueJS for frontend validation. • Strong experience in API testing using tools like Postman and SOAP UI, and validating RESTful and SOAP interfaces. • Experience working with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Artifactory, and cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP. • Solid understanding of SDLC, STLC, Agile methodologies. • Excellent communication skills, analytical thinking, and attention to detail. • Preferred: Experience with Actimize ActOne Platform or other AML/financial crime systems; prior experience in FinTech environments. You will have an advantage if you also have: ✅ AI‑Assisted Test Design & Creation • Ability to use AI tools to generate: – Test cases – Edge & negative scenarios – Test data sets • Experience validating and refining AI‑generated test artifacts. What’s in it for you? Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment! As the market leader, every day at NiCE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NiCEr! Enjoy NiCE-FLEX! At NiCE, we work according to the NiCE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere. Requisition ID: 10547 Reporting into: Tech Manager Role Type: Individual Contributor About NiCE NICE Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE) software products are used by 25,000+ global businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100 corporations, to deliver extraordinary customer experiences, fight financial crime and ensure public safety. Every day, NiCE software manages more than 120 million customer interactions and monitors 3+ billion financial transactions. Known as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud and digital, NiCE is consistently recognized as the market leader in its domains, with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries. NiCE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.