Senior Test Automation Engineer

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Senior Test Automation Engineer – Banking & Payments

Charlotte, North Carolina

7+ Years (5+ Years in Banking/Payments)

We are seeking a seasoned Test Automation Engineer with deep expertise in banking and high-throughput payment systems. The ideal candidate will drive quality engineering across mission‑critical payment flows (Wires/SWIFT, Fed Now, CHIPS, ISO 20022, ACH/NACHA, RTP) and build scalable automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

• Automation Framework Development: Design and maintain scalable UI/API/Service/Database automation frameworks; implement test data management, environment selectors, and parallel execution; reduce flaky tests and improve test stability.
• CI/CD & Quality Engineering: Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, Git Lab CI); implement quality gates for code coverage, pass rates, performance baselines; enable shift‑left (unit/contract tests) and shift‑right (synthetic monitoring, observability validation).
• Payments Domain Validation: Automate end‑to‑end payment journeys (initiation, validation, routing, posting, reconciliation); validate file and real‑time rails: SWIFT (MT/MX), ISO 20022, RTP, Fed Now, CHIPS; verify ISO 20022 message schemas (pain/pacs/camt), SWIFT MX mappings; ensure validation of FX fees, cut‑offs, retries, idempotency, holiday processing.
• Non‑Functional & Resilience Testing: Build automation for performance, soak, latency, and resilience testing; execute chaos/failover testing (timeouts, duplicate submissions, replay protection); validate circuit breakers, back‑pressure, and error budgets.

• 7–10+ years in Test Automation; 5+ years in Banking/Payments domain.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Java, C#, Python, or Type Script.
• Experience with Selenium/Web Driver, Playwright, Cypress.
• API testing expertise (Rest Assured, Postman).
• Experience with JSON/XML, ISO 20022 schemas, SWIFT messaging.
• Hands‑on with event‑driven systems (Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ).
• CI/CD expertise (Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI).
• Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes and test parallelization.
• SQL and No
  
  SQL experience (e.g., Mongo
  
  DB).
• Observability tools (Grafana, Splunk or similar).
• Strong understanding of secure coding and testing practices.

• Contract testing (OpenAPI, Async
  
  API).
• Experience in reconciliations, liquidity, AML, sanctions screening (OFAC).
• Fraud detection systems and risk controls knowledge.

• Automation Frameworks
• API & UI Testing
• Payments Domain
• ISO 20022
• SWIFT
• CI/CD
• Kafka
• Performance Testing
• Resilience Testing
• SQL/No
  
  SQL
• Observability