Test Automation Engineer; Banking

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We're looking for a seasoned Test Automation Engineer with experience in banking or payments to drive quality engineering across high-throughput payment flows (e.g.,
Wires/SWIFT, Fed Now, Chips, ISO 20022, ACH/NACHA, RTP
). Design robust automation frameworks, expand test coverage across APIs/services/UI, and embed quality into CI/CD for mission‑critical systems that demand security, resiliency, and regulatory compliance
.

• Build & Evolve Automation Frameworks
• Design and maintain scalable, modular UI/API/service‑level/Database automation frameworks (preferably in Java/C#/Type Script/Python) using tools like Selenium/Web Driver, 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 (Git Hub Actions/Azure Dev Ops/Jenkins/Git Lab 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, Fed Now, 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.

• 10+ years in test automation with 5+ years in banking or payments.
• Strong in one or more:
  Java, C#, Python, or Type Script; 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/Rabbit
  
  MQ).
• Solid grasp of CI/CD (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins), Git, Docker/K8s, environment variables/secrets, and test parallelization.
• Proven capability with SQL and at least one No
  
  SQL (e.g., Mongo); experience setting up synthetic test data and masking strategies.
• Familiarity with observability (Grafana, Splunk) to correlate test runs with system telemetry.
• Understanding of SWIFT/ISO 20022, Fed Now principles, fraud and risk controls, and secure coding/testing practices.

• Contract testing with schema‑first approaches (OpenAPI, Async
  
  API).
• Domain exposure to reconciliations, liquidity, sanctions screening (OFAC), AML, and fraud signals/decisioning.

In compliance with the salary transparency law, the expected pay range for this role is $40-$55/hr actual compensation depends on experience and interview evaluation.