Test Automation Engineer (with Banking / Payments Domain)

Job Title: Test Automation Engineer (with Banking / Payments Domain)
Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid) – Need Local only.
Employment Type: Contract 12 Months+

Only H4-EAD/ L2-EAD/ GC-EAD/ Citizen.
Pay Rate: $50/hr on C2C

About the Role:
We’re 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). You’ll 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.

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.