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title: 'Senior QA Automation Engineer at DKB Code Factory'
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# Senior QA Automation Engineer at DKB Code Factory

- **Company:** DKB Code Factory
- **Location:** Valencia, Spain
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dkbcodefactory/jobs/8004226003

## Job description

Welcome to DKB Code Factory….

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Join a collaborative, learning-first tech hub within DKB where autonomy, continuous improvement, and shared ownership are at the core of how we work.

As a Senior QA Engineer, you'll take a leading role in shaping the quality strategy within your team and contribute to improving testing practices across the engineering organization. You will act as a trusted quality partner for developers, product stakeholders, and fellow engineers, helping teams make informed decisions about quality, risk, and release readiness.

Beyond implementing tests, you'll help define how we approach quality throughout the software development lifecycle, from requirements and architecture to Continuous Delivery. You'll drive scalable automation practices, challenge existing approaches when needed, mentor others on testing topics, and help create an engineering culture where quality is a shared responsibility.

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- Own and continuously evolve the team's quality and testing strategy, aligning testing activities with product risks, architecture, and delivery goals.
- Act as the team's go-to expert for quality engineering, guiding testing approaches, testability, automation, and quality-related technical decisions.
- Design and evolve scalable test automation solutions across component, integration, contract, API, and end-to-end testing, with a strong focus on backend systems and APIs.
- Ensure test readiness across environments, infrastructure, test data, mocking, service virtualization, and system dependencies.
- Partner with developers and product stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle to identify risks, clarify requirements, improve testability, and prevent defects early.
- Analyze complex test failures and production defects, support root-cause analysis, and use quality metrics and testing insights to identify systemic issues and support informed release decisions.
- Drive Continuous Testing and quality engineering practices within CI/CD, while mentoring engineers and sharing effective testing patterns and practices across teams.

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- Strong knowledge of testing principles, test design techniques, risk-based testing, and modern quality engineering practices.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining automation solutions for backend systems and APIs, covering approaches such as component, integration, contract, API, and end-to-end testing.
- Solid programming experience with Java, Kotlin, or comparable technologies, applying good software engineering practices to build maintainable test automation.
- Experience testing distributed or service-based systems, including dependencies, asynchronous processes, failure scenarios, and root-cause analysis.
- Good knowledge of SQL, database validation, test environments, test data management, mocking, and service virtualization.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and Continuous Testing, with the ability to use quality metrics, observability, and risk to support technical and release decisions.
- A collaborative and pragmatic approach, with experience mentoring engineers, influencing technical decisions, and driving improvements across teams, plus openness to developing skills in areas such as mobile QA.
- Fluency in English.
- Familiarity with some of our testing tools is a nice to have, but not required: XCUITest, Espresso, Serenity, Playwright...

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Got the feeling not to match every single requirement? Don’t worry! We encourage you to apply anyways, even if your qualifications do not align perfectly. You might still be just the right candidate for us!

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From Morning Daily to Afterwork Drink, team spirit is essential to us. The heart of our togetherness is that we truly are connected with each other: We not only share fun & laughter, but also honest opinions - because that's how we grow: We exchange ideas, give support in our personal development, and celebrate success together! Besides our great community, we also offer numerous other [benefits](https://www.dkbcodefactory.com/jobs/valencia#what-we-offer)...

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## About DKB Code Factory

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: DKB Code Factory GmbH is the internal innovation and software development arm of Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB), building digital banking products for retail and business customers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (wholly owned subsidiary of DKB)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (emerged organically from within DKB)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Software Development / Digital Banking / Fintech
- **Target customers**: B2B (internal teams at DKB, and indirectly DKB’s retail + business customers)
- **Mission**: "To establish DKB as the choice for an irresistible banking experience" by creating intuitive, customer-centric digital products and encouraging experimentation within the DKB group.

## Products & Services
- **Private Banking App & Portal**: Full digital banking experience for retail customers – accounts, credit cards, and trading services. Includes co-branded offerings for partners like Porsche and Hilton (e.g., Miles & More credit card) [dkbcodefactory.com].
- **Business Customer Solutions**: Digital loan origination and credit process tools to replace legacy spreadsheets and physical workflows, aiming to accelerate decision-making and reduce risk.
- **Property Management Platform**: Modernization of a 20-year-old platform for managing property accounts, maintenance, and deposit accounts – targeting property managers with a unified, compliant application.
- **Banking Services API Layer**: "Invisible operating system" connecting front-end banking products to the core banking system, providing a stable, well-structured API for seamless product integration.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Workforce of ~167 employees (as of mid-2024), with +28.6% YoY growth [linkedin.com].
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB), one of the top 3 direct banks in Germany. Co-branding partners include Porsche and Hilton.
- **Growth Signals**: Strong headcount growth (+28.6% YoY); active hiring (3 open positions as of mid-2024); operating across 5 countries (Germany, Spain, Ethiopia, Poland, Netherlands); investment in modernizing legacy banking infrastructure.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Innovation Incubator Model**: Operates as a dedicated, agile innovation unit inside a major bank, combining startup culture with banking stability and a guaranteed user base.
- **User-Centric Design Focus**: In-house UX/UI, research, and insights teams ensure products are built on real customer data, not just technical requirements.
- **Sustainability Mandate**: 85% of DKB’s funds are reinvested in sustainable products (agriculture, renewable energy, social infrastructure), providing a sense of purpose beyond profit.
- **Accessibility & Inclusion**: Dedicated Accessibility Guild ensures digital products meet the needs of all users, embedding inclusive design as a core practice.

## Strategic Focus
- **Digitalization of Core Banking**: Modernizing 20-year-old platforms and digitizing credit processes to move DKB from legacy systems to modern, API-driven platforms.
- **Cross-Functional Innovation**: Expanding beyond engineering to become a center of excellence for design, research, and agile methodologies.
- **Talent Growth**: Emphasis on continuous learning, hackathons, and knowledge-sharing (e.g., bi-weekly Tech Talks) to keep teams at the cutting edge.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: 89% of employees rate it a great place to work. The atmosphere is described as supportive, experimental, and non-hierarchical, with a strong focus on personal growth and knowledge sharing [dkbcodefactory.com].
- **Flexibility**: Fully hybrid – "You choose where you work: office, home office, or both" [dkbcodefactory.com].
- **Perks**:
    - Learning budget: up to €1,500/year per person.
    - Home office setup bonus: €500 onboarding budget.
    - Public transport: Additional €50/month tax-free; BVG Deutschlandticket subsidized at 25%.
    - Spendit Card: A benefits card for lifestyle and wellness expenses.
- **Engineering Culture**: Technical roles make up 50% of the company; teams are organized into chapters (Frontend, Backend, Mobile, Pega); focus on "building the RIGHT THING before building the THING RIGHT."
- **Hiring Process** (as per careers page): Initial call → Role-specific task → Team meeting → Interview → Offer. Onboarding includes a welcome box and team introductions [dkbcodefactory.com].
- **Diversity**: Public commitment to building a "colourful community" where everyone feels valued regardless of background, nationality, religion, or identity.

## Sources
1. [dkbcodefactory.com - Mission & Culture](https://www.dkbcodefactory.com/mission)
2. [dkbcodefactory.com - Culture](https://www.dkbcodefactory.com/culture)
3. [dkbcodefactory.com - Products](https://www.dkbcodefactory.com/product)
4. [dkbcodefactory.com - Jobs & Perks](https://www.dkbcodefactory.com/jobs)
5. [linkedin.com - DKB Code Factory Company Profile](https://de.linkedin.com/company/dkbcodefactory)

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