Test Automation Engineer with Payments-8
Role summary
Seeking a seasoned Test Automation Engineer with 7-10+ years of experience, including 5+ years in banking and payments platforms. The role focuses on driving quality engineering for high-throughput payment flows using automation frameworks for APIs, services, and UI. Responsibilities include integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, validating payment journeys and message schemas, and performing non-functional testing like performance and resilience. Proficiency in Java, C#, Python, or TypeScript, along with tools like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, and Postman, is required. Experience with SQL, NoSQL, CI/CD tools, and message validation is also essential.
Charlotte, North Carolina 28105 Posted March 29th, 2026
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Job Type: Contract
Job Category: IT
Job Description
Position Title :- Test Automation Engineer with Payments
Location :- Charlotte , NC- Day 1 onsite (F2F Interview)
Work mode :- Onsite Hybrid 3 days a week
Contract
About the Role
We’re looking for a seasoned Test Automation Engineer with deep experience in banking and payments to drive quality engineering across high‑throughput payment flows (e.g., Wires/SWIFT, FedNow, Chips, ISO 20022, ACH/NACHA, RTP). You’ll 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.
What You’ll Do
Build & Evolve Automation Frameworks
Design and maintain scalable, modular UI/API/service-level/Database automation frameworks (preferably in Java/C#/TypeScript/Python) using tools like Selenium/WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, 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 (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GitLab 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, FedNow, 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.
Required Qualifications
7–10+ years in test automation with 5+ years in banking/payments platforms.
Strong in one or more: Java, C#, Python, or TypeScript; hands‑on with Selenium/Playwright/Cypress and API testing (RestAssured/Postman).
Experience with message validation (JSON, XML, ISO 20022 schemas), file-based and real-time processing, asynchronous and event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ).
Solid grasp of CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins), Git, Docker/K8s, environment variables/secrets, and test parallelization.
Proven capability with SQL and at least one NoSQL (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, FedNow principles, fraud and risk controls, and secure coding/testing practices.
Nice-to-Have
Contract testing with schema-first approaches (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI).
Domain exposure to reconciliations, liquidity, sanctions screening (OFAC), AML, and fraud signals/decisioning.
Required Skills
DEVOPS ENGINEER
SENIOR EMAIL SECURITY ENGINEER