Senior QA Engineer (f/m/d)

About IDnow

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.

Location

This position is based in Rennes, France.

Role Overview

As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be an integral part of our engineering team, ensuring the quality and reliability of our AI/ML-powered identity verification services. You will work closely with software engineers, data scientists, and product managers to design and execute comprehensive test strategies for complex systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests using Python and relevant frameworks
• Identify, document, and track bugs and quality issues through their full lifecycle
• Improve and refine QA/testing processes to enhance services quality and reliability
• Work closely with developers, data scientists, product managers, customer support, operations, and other stakeholders
• Operate within an Agile Scrum team, participating in sprint ceremonies and contributing to high-quality releases
• Participate in CI/CD pipeline integration to enable continuous quality validation
• Contribute to the improvement of QA processes, tools, and best practices across teams

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience in software QA and automation.
• Strong hands‑on skills in Python for test automation.
• Proven experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Familiarity with tools such as pytest, Postman, Locust, or similar testing frameworks
• Experience with API testing (e.g., Postman, REST Assured)
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI).
• Proactive, autonomous, and confident in making technical QA decisions.
• Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail
• Fluent English (written and spoken); French language skills are a plus.

Bonus Skills

• Knowledge of GDPR and data privacy considerations in testing environments
• Experience with testing services communicating via message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka) using Protocol Buffer (Protobuf) interfaces
• Familiarity with cloud‑based test environments or containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with QA testing of Machine Learning or AI services, including statistical testing methodologies, handling and validating large datasets

Perks & Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing: Use your full access to the mental health platform nilo, including 1‑on‑1 sessions.
• Personal & Professional Development: Make full use of Udemy, our training platform with 24/7 access and unlimited content/course consumption incl. certification.
• Remote Work Support: We provide support on equipment and offer flexible working hours.
• Collaboration & Community: Regular onsite gatherings, internal initiatives and summer parties to connect outside of work.
• Paid Special Leave Days: Apply for paid special leave days when family or other reasons require your attention.
• Workcation Opportunities: Combine work with a longer stay at your holiday destination or extend a weekend with our Workcation possibilities.
• Additional location‑specific benefits are offered.

Equality & Inclusion

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.