Title: QA Automation
Location: San Francisco, CA
Duration: Long Term
· Requirement: 7–10+ years in test automation with 5+ years in banking/payments platforms.
· Strong in: Java; hands-on with Playwright and API testing (Rest Assured/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 database 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, FedNowprinciples, 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.