Senior Quality Engineer I
American Express • Mid Sussex, England, United Kingdom
**Role & seniority: ** Senior Quality Engineer (Quality Engineering), Global Commercial Services (Buyer Initiated Payments, BIP) — American Express
**Location & work type: ** Burgess Hill (UK) — work type not specified (assumed on-site/hybrid not stated)
**Stack/tools: ** Not explicitly specified in the text (quality engineering and test automation mentioned; “modernise the tech stack” mentioned without details).
**Top 3 responsibilities: **
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Embed quality throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to ensure delivery of high-quality, resilient, scalable software
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Develop/drive test automation and quality engineering practices to support continuous improvement
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Partner with stakeholders to help modernise the tech stack and sustain/accelerate BIP growth (B2B & international payments)
**Must-have skills: **
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Strong quality engineering mindset and ability to implement quality practices across SDLC
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Experience with test automation
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Continuous improvement approach (process and engineering)
**Nice-to-haves: **
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Experience in B2B/international payments, business financing, or related fintech domains (implied by team focus)
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Familiarity with modernisation efforts and cross-stakeholder collaboration (explicitly emphasized)
Full Description
American Express’ Global Commercial Services (GCS) offers a wide range of card and payment programs, expense management tools, consulting services, business financing and cross-border payments solutions to small businesses, mid-sized companies and large corporations around the world. The Buyer Initiated Payments (BIP) is part of the broader Business Financing, Payments and Digital Experiences organisation (BFPD) within Global Commercial Services. The BIP team strives to provide flexible and digital financing solutions for business customers of all sizes in lead markets around the world and drive key business outcomes.
Within GCS, BIP supports B2B & International payments, one of the fastest growing segments of our business. We are looking for a high performing and enthusiastic Senior Quality Engineer to join Buyer Initiated Payments (BIP) in GCS at American Express in Burgess Hill.
This is a great opportunity to join a high-visibility, high-priority Engineering team and help sustain and accelerate the growth of GCS charge volume by taking an innovative and collaborative approach to modernise the tech stack in partnership with key stakeholders.
We are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to join our collaborative engineering team. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about quality engineering, test automation, and continuous improvement. You will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, resilient, and scalable software solutions by embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
