Remote End-to-End Test Engineer; FinTech​/SDET

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

In this position...

Ford Credit is seeking a highly driven, collaborative, and analytical ** End-to-End (E2E) Test Engineer / SDETto join our Enterprise Testing team. This is a crucial role in which you will act as the technical lead between our UI clients, partner platforms, and our backend infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration and functionality across our complex lending platforms.

You must be a self-starter capable of mapping out and dissecting intricate processes, from the moment a dealer submits a loan application to the final backend data storage, all the way from inception to repayment, which includes multiple diverse systems until data flows to the data warehouse for reporting.

If you are an exceptional communicator who can proactively drive quality initiatives, partner across architecture, product, and engineering teams, and figure out exactly how systems communicate under the hood, we want you on our team.

What you'll do...

• Cross-Functional Partnership:
  Actively partner with Business, Architecture, Product, Design, and Software Engineering teams to align testing activities with business acceptance criteria and architectural realities.

• Journey Validation:
  Participate in and help facilitate mandatory "Cross-Functional Journey Review & Sign-Off" ceremonies to attest that all business-critical paths, edge cases, and transitional states are documented and tested.

• Drive Quality Initiatives:
  Take a proactive, self-driven approach to identifying gaps in test coverage. Drive E2E quality initiatives, ensuring the testing strategy shifts left and adheres to the Testing Pyramid.

• Full-Stack Analysis:
  Analyze business requirements to identify and map end-to-end user journeys (e.g., the complete Loan Origination flow) from the WebUI, through the Orchestration layer, down to backend dependencies.

• Test Automation:
  Design, build, and refactor scalable automated tests for both UI and API-based E2E scenarios using Playwright. Create reusable libraries to ensure zero code duplication.

• System Integration:
  Validate system interoperability, data flows, and API contracts between modern microservices and legacy systems.

• Pipeline Integration:
  Integrate and maintain automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Cloud Build) to run on demand against selected cloud platforms (Lambda Test).

• Data Migration & TDM:
  Validate complex data transformations (e.g., DB2 to Postgre
  
  SQL migrations). Work alongside Test Data Management (TDM) strategies to utilize masked, synthetic data for realistic test scenarios without exposing PII.

• Squad
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Collaborate tightly with Stream-Aligned Teams (in-sprint testers) to transfer knowledge, review execution results, and prioritize testing based on risk and business impact.

You'll have...

• Core Engineering:
  Strong programming background in Java and experience with build management tools (Gradle, Maven).

• Test Automation:
  Expert-level knowledge of UI automation (Playwright) and API testing (Playwright, Postman, Hoppscotch). Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber/Gherkin).

• System Architecture:
  Deep understanding of how processes work end-to-end from both a UI and backend perspective. Experience testing Orchestration layers (Graph
  
  QL) and microservices.

• Cloud & CI/CD:
  Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP) and CI/CD version control (Git Hub, Cloud Build).

• Testing Methodologies:
  Strong understanding of functional, integration, E2E, and regression testing. Experience executing tests across multiple environments (SIT,…