QA Automation Tester (banking/payments module)

Here is OUR CLIENT REQUIREMENT which can be filled immediately.

Position: QA Automation Tester (banking/payments module)
Location: Charlotte, NC - Onsite
Duration: Contract
Interview Mode - Virtual
NO OPT/CPT!!
Rate: $50/Hr on C2C

Required Qualifications
7 10+ years in test automation with 5+ years in banking/payments platforms.
Strong in : Java, handson with Playwright 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.
Basic knowledge on data base validation on both SQL and Mongo.
Experience in Splunk logs validation
Understanding end-to-end payment journeys (Wires/SWIFT (MT/MX, ISO 20022), RTP, FedNow, Chips) : initiation validation routing posting notifications reconciliation.
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.
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.
Experience with Grafana dashboards.