Job Title: QA Automation Engineer with banking/payments

Location: Charlotte, NC- Day 1 Onsite

Duration: Long Term

Type: Contract 

In person interview

Job Description:

• SDET Automation with Java and Selenium, payments, SWIFT/ISO 20022.

What You’ll Do

• Build & Evolve Automation Frameworks.
• Design and maintain scalable, modular UI/API/service-level/Database automation frameworks (preferably in Java/C#/TypeScript/Python) using tools like Selenium/WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, Rest Assured, Postman.
• Implement robust test data management, environment selectors, and parallel execution at scale; champion test stability (flaky test reduction).
• Quality in CI/CD.
• Integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GitLab CI) with gating policies, test dashboards, and quality thresholds (code coverage, pass rates, performance baselines).
• Shift-left: PR-level unit/contract tests; shift-right: synthetic monitoring and observability validations post-deploy.
• Payments Domain Validation
• Author automation for end-to-end payment journeys: initiation ? validation ? routing ? posting ? notifications ? reconciliation.
• Validate file and real-time rails: Wires/SWIFT (MT/MX, ISO 20022), RTP, FedNow, Chips.
• Verify message schemas (e.g., ISO 20022 pain.001/pacs.008/camt), and SWIFT MX mapping; ensure idempotency, FX/fees/tax, cut-offs, holidays, and retries.
• Non-Functional & Resilience Testing.
• Build automation for performance, soak, and resilience (throughput/latency/error budgets, circuit breakers, back-pressure).
• Execute chaos/failover/dr testing: timeouts, downstream unavailability, duplicate submissions, replay protection.

Required Qualifications:

• 7–10+ years in test automation with 5+ years in banking/payments platforms.
• Strong in one or more: Java, C#, Python, or TypeScript; hands on with Selenium/Playwright/Cypress and API testing (Rest Assured/Postman).
• Experience with message validation (JSON, XML, ISO 20022 schemas), file-based and real-time processing, asynchronous and event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ).