Senior Software Developer Engineer in Testing

Position Summary:

The Clearing House (TCH) is seeking a Senior Software Developer Engineer in Testing (SDET) to join our RTP Product Engineering team. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated and manual test cases, ensuring quality of our critical real-time interbank payment platform. This includes functionality, reliability and performance of existing and new applications.

The Senior SDET works directly with RTP Product teams and Operations to aggregate business and technical requirements into high quality automation testing of TCH Systems. Develop and deliver testing best practices and processes to all projects while maintaining adherence to TCH standards. This role is well suited for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, testing highly reliable systems, and delivering quality applications that operate at the core of financial infrastructure.

The organization is actively transforming its payment platforms toward cloud-native, distributed architectures while introducing modern automation and AI-assisted engineering practices into its software development lifecycle. TCH values engineers who are technically curious, pragmatic, and interested in understanding how complex systems work, end to end. The ideal candidate will be a hands‑on quality engineer who has strong automation experience, understands distributed application architectures, and an avid interest in testing critical systems where performance, security, resiliency, and sustainability are vital for success.

• Lead planning, estimation, development, and implementation of test automation frameworks and strategies
• Design and develop automated testing including creation, execution, and maintenance of automated scripts using industry best practices and standards
• Execute translation of manual testing scenarios to test automation coverage across multiple products
• Automate testing for use in a Dev Ops architecture
• Participate either as the sole QE resource on projects, or in an Agile scrum team
• Use of strong problem‑solving skills to investigate and document defects and their respective resolutions
• Lead larger test automation efforts independently and act as a subject matter expert to team members on smaller efforts
• Effectively communicate status to stakeholders and proactively locate and address concerns
• Champion Agile best‑practices, processes, and tools in support of Dev Ops processes with respect to developing testing automation
• Conform to department standards to comply with audit and regulatory policies
• Assist team members through cross‑training on applications and systems, perform peer reviews, training and mentoring manual and junior QE members on automation testing
• Participate in the transformation of testing into a continuous and efficient end‑to‑end quality engineering function
• Aid in the evolution of more predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation
• Collaborate with other test engineers across products and projects to solve problems and deploy them, and mature automation testing practices

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM‑related field (Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent experience (6+ years)
• 6+ years as an SDET or a similar role, with a strong focus on automated testing using Java and Selenium.
• Expertise in designing and developing robust test automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, Web Driver, and related tools
• Hands‑on experience testing applications deployed within an AWS cloud platform
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, Cloud Watch, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, and IAM
• Experience testing…