Apptad-Test Automation Engineer

Job Title: Test Automation Engineer

Job Location: Charlotte NC (Need Day 1 Onsite hybrid 3 days from office).
Job Duration: Long Term

In-person interview mandatory

Job description:

Were 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). 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.

Responsibilities:

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.