Senior Fullstack QA Engineer

FP Markets Group of Companies is a well-established multi-regulated broker, founded in Australia, offering traders access to CFD trading on Forex, Indices, Commodities, Stocks and Cryptocurrencies. We are growing and looking to recruit a Full-time Senior AQA Engineer (Fullstack) in the Cyprus office - a certified Great Place to Work®. We are developing a social trading platform and are looking for a strong automation engineer who will build end-to-end test coverage across all product layers, with a primary focus on native mobile applications (iOS / Android) and web. This is a role with real autonomy — you will not be "just another QA in the team," but the person who defines quality standards and gradually builds a process where code physically cannot be pushed to production without passing tests. Currently, there are no automated tests for the mobile applications at all — you will be responsible for building automation from scratch and establishing the surrounding processes. Reporting to: QA Lead Responsibilities: Design and develop a mobile automation framework from scratch for native iOS and Android applications Develop and maintain the backend automation framework (API testing) Cover critical social trading user scenarios: trade copying, deposits/withdrawals, trading account operations Extend test coverage at the web and API levels Integrate tests into CI/CD: execution on every commit, pipelines, reporting Establish pre-commit quality gates using Git hooks (husky / pre-commit) — mandatory test execution before code reaches the repository Execute tests on real devices, emulators/simulators, and cloud device farms Drive automation culture: introduce stabilization/automation iterations to prevent coverage degradation over time Candidate profile: Mobile Experience building mobile automation frameworks from scratch for iOS and Android Native drivers: XCUITest (iOS) and Espresso / UiAutomator2 (Android) Appium 2.x/3.x as a cross-platform tool for native / hybrid / mobile web Strong hands-on experience with Android Studio (ADB, emulators) and Xcode / Simulator Experience running tests on real devices and cloud farms (BrowserStack) Understanding of mobile app architecture, locator strategies, gestures, and testing under different network conditions Understanding that mobile tests are more logically maintained within the application repository rather than as a separate project in another language Languages and Frameworks Strong Java skills (modern versions); solid understanding of OOP Kotlin and Swift knowledge is a plus Test runners and assertions: JUnit 5, test data generation with Instancio / JavaFaker Web / API UI automation with Playwright (Java), Page Object Model, stable locators API automation: REST Assured, REST API and authorization handling Understanding of flaky tests and retry strategies Data Handling Databases: MariaDB / MySQL, state validation via SQL / JDBC Test data setup and cleanup CI/CD…