Senior Test Automation Engineer – Payments

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Type: Contract to hire

Responsibilities: Design, develop, enhance, and maintain scalable and reusable test automation frameworks for complex enterprise applications. Develop and execute automated functional, integration, end-to-end, and regression test suites across critical business workflows. Advance shift-left testing by incorporating automated quality validation earlier in the software development lifecycle. Partner with Product Management, business stakeholders, developers, architects, and engineering teams to understand requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and critical business processes. Develop automated testing solutions for complex payment applications and transaction-processing workflows, including ACH, wire transfers, SWIFT, and related payment capabilities. Design and execute automated API and integration testing for REST and SOAP-based services. Create and execute SQL queries to validate application data, payment transactions, integrations, and expected processing outcomes. Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous testing. Test applications deployed across public cloud and containerized environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Docker. Analyze automated test results, identify defects and quality risks, troubleshoot automation failures, perform root-cause analysis, and partner with development teams to drive issues through resolution. Identify opportunities to improve automation coverage, test efficiency, reliability, maintainability, and overall engineering productivity. Evaluate and recommend new testing tools, frameworks, technologies, and automation approaches based on evolving application and delivery needs. Estimate, plan, track, and report automation and testing activities throughout the delivery lifecycle. Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Conduct automation code reviews and contribute to coding standards, reusable components, technical documentation, and secure development practices. Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in quality engineering, test automation, cloud-native development, DevOps, and continuous testing.

Requirements: 6+ years of experience in test automation, quality engineering, software testing, or a related discipline. Hands-on experience testing payment applications or transaction-processing systems, including ACH, wire transfers, SWIFT, and/or other electronic payment capabilities. Strong experience designing, developing, executing, and maintaining enterprise-scale test automation frameworks. Hands-on automation experience using Playwright and/or Selenium. Programming or automation development experience using Java and/or Python. Experience testing REST and SOAP APIs, including with tools such as Postman or comparable technologies. Strong SQL and relational database skills, including querying and analyzing data for transaction and test validation. Experience testing applications deployed on at least one major public cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP. Experience testing applications within containerized environments, including Docker. Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and working within continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous testing practices. Experience with development and delivery tools such as Bamboo, Git, Artifactory, Jira, and Confluence, or comparable technologies. Demonstrated experience planning, estimating, executing, tracking, and reporting automation and testing activities. Experience working within Agile and/or Waterfall software delivery methodologies. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex application and automation issues. Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across business, product, development, and engineering teams. Ref: #404-IT Pittsburgh