Location: Charlotte, NC 28202 (Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week)
Duration: 6 - 12+ Months
Required Qualifications:
• 7–10+ years in test automation with 5+ years in banking/payments platforms.
• Strong in : Java,; hands on 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