I'm Ece Yilmazer, a automation engineer with 11+ years of experience in fintech, payment systems, and enterprise platforms. I have a strong background in API and UI automation, with hands-on experience building and maintaining scalable test frameworks using Selenium and Playwright (C#). I also enjoy applying risk-based testing practices to high-velocity Agile environments and collaborating across Product, Engineering, and Support teams to raise quality and delivery readiness. Currently expanding my knowledge in AI/GenAI testing, focusing on validating model outputs and prompt behavior, and how to robustly verify AI-driven features within real-world workflows.

Ece Yilmazer

I'm Ece Yilmazer, a automation engineer with 11+ years of experience in fintech, payment systems, and enterprise platforms. I have a strong background in API and UI automation, with hands-on experience building and maintaining scalable test frameworks using Selenium and Playwright (C#). I also enjoy applying risk-based testing practices to high-velocity Agile environments and collaborating across Product, Engineering, and Support teams to raise quality and delivery readiness. Currently expanding my knowledge in AI/GenAI testing, focusing on validating model outputs and prompt behavior, and how to robustly verify AI-driven features within real-world workflows.

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I’m Ece Yilmazer, a automation engineer with 11+ years of experience in fintech, payment systems, and enterprise platforms. I have a strong background in API and UI automation, with hands-on experience building and maintaining scalable test frameworks using Selenium and Playwright (C#). I also enjoy applying risk-based testing practices to high-velocity Agile environments and collaborating across Product, Engineering, and Support teams to raise quality and delivery readiness.

Currently expanding my knowledge in AI/GenAI testing, focusing on validating model outputs and prompt behavior, and how to robustly verify AI-driven features within real-world workflows.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Advanced

Work Experience

QA Engineer at UK Fintech (Payments Platform)
September 1, 2021 - Present
Delivered QA across multiple merchant-facing payment products and platforms; improved automation coverage; collaborated with Product, Engineering and Support teams to raise quality and readiness for releases.
Boarding Team QA at UK Fintech (Payments Platform)
September 1, 2021 - April 1, 2024
Sole QA responsible for end-to-end testing of the merchant onboarding platform; designed and executed API and UI test scenarios; built and maintained automated API test suites using Postman; extended regression coverage to onboarding integrations; contributed to Fast Onboarding project; identified risks early in backlog refinement and influenced test strategy accordingly.
QA Analyst at NEO Fintech Labs
November 1, 2018 - September 1, 2021
Designed and executed API and UI feature tests across treasury management solutions; built API automation using Postman; maintained UI automation tests using Selenium WebDriver (C#, NUnit); collaborated with Product Owners and Finance teams to clarify requirements and ensure accurate SAP integration testing; improved overall test coverage.
ATM Multi-vendor Banking Project - Test Analyst at Derivco UK
October 1, 2015 - November 1, 2016
Performed static testing on banking requirements; created test cases; executed functional, integration, exploratory, end-to-end and physical security testing for ATM flows across multiple providers; collaborated with clients and vendors to ensure quality.
Framework Test Analyst at Derivco UK
March 1, 2017 - June 1, 2017
Delivered automated and manual testing for banking software; built test scenarios and contributed to test strategy; worked with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business requirements.
Test Engineer Trainee at Triodor Software
June 1, 2012 - August 1, 2013
Supported testing across projects; designed and executed functional tests for web/mobile applications; gained foundational exposure to automation concepts and tools.
QA Engineer at LELY Farming Automation Platform
June 1, 2018 - November 1, 2018
Test engineering within an Agile team building and maintaining a farm automation system across web and mobile platforms; designed test scenarios; maintained regression suites; applied risk-based testing to identify high-impact areas.

Education

BSc Information Technologies at FMV ISIK University
January 11, 2030 - April 27, 2026

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet