SW Quality Engineer IV

Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.

Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.

Location:

Hyderabad, India

Reports to:

Sr SW Engineering Manager, Data

Company:
Candescent – Powering the Future of Digital Banking

Candescent is redefining digital banking through a modern, AI-driven platform that enables financial institutions to deliver smarter, faster, and more personalized customer experiences. We are looking for a skilled Senior Development Engineer in Test to lead quality initiatives for our Transaction Store stack.

This role will play a key part in ensuring the quality of our data ingestion, transform as well as REST APIs.

• Lead quality and automation efforts for Candescent’s Transaction Store, which manages digital banking data such as Accounts, Transactions, and Customers in the personal banking domain.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to validate scalable data capabilities.
• Ensure high quality across both new and existing features within the data platform.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using SQL, Python, Postman, and similar tools.
• Apply working knowledge of Dev Ops practices and automated build tools.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Contribute to requirements gathering and documentation processes.
• Establish and adhere to core engineering practices to uphold software quality. Embrace an agile mindset and operate effectively in a fast-paced scrum environment, including supporting critical production issues.
• Champion an “automate everything” approach across the engineering lifecycle.

• 8+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, including at least 3 years focused on testing APIs and data platforms.
• Strong expertise in testing both streaming and batch data pipelines, database and file-based ingestions, and REST APIs on the Google Cloud platform.
• Hands‑on experience validating scalable systems with both internal and external data ingestion pipelines.
• Proficiency in SQL and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Proficiency in using AI tools to enhance automation and improve overall productivity.
• Strong technical acumen with excellent troubleshooting and decision‑making abilities.
• Solid understanding of non‑functional aspects of large‑scale systems, including performance, scalability, availability, and security.
• Ability to understand upstream and downstream systems and design data transformations that can be reused across multiple consumers.
• Deep knowledge of File formats, HTTP, TCP, and other network protocols, including secure communication standards.
• Familiarity with security standards in the financial services industry.
• Experience in implementing effective testing strategies for various system integrations.
• Strong domain knowledge in financial services and banking systems.
• Excellent communication and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
• Familiarity with Jupyter Notebooks and Selenium is an added advantage.