SDET Senior Test Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement comprehensive test strategies and plans for end-to-end payments processing scenarios, covering multiple payment types (e.g., domestic wires, SWIFT cross-border payments, ISO 20022 messages, real-time and batch payments) to ensure no room for error in critical financial transaction workflows.
• Identify testing scope, requirements, and success criteria for each release.
• Design and maintain robust, scalable test automation frameworks using Java-based tools and libraries. Leverage Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, and related frameworks to automate both UI and API testing.
• Ensure the framework supports functional, regression, and integration testing for a large-scale payments platform, enabling quick and reliable test execution.
• Create and execute automated test cases and test scripts that validate complex payment flows, data transformations, and reporting functionalities.
• Achieve high coverage across varied payment types (wire transfers, SWIFT/ISO 20022 messages like pacs.008, pacs.009, pain.001, camt.056, domestic networks like Fedwire, CHIPS) and ensure accurate verification of payment processing, compliance (e.g. format validations, data mapping), and reporting outputs.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience: 8+ years of professional experience in software test automation/QA, with a significant focus on banking or payments systems.
• Proven track record of leading QA/test automation efforts for complex, business-critical financial applications.
• Strong knowledge of banking and payments processes, including wire transfers, cross-border payments (SWIFT MT/MX), ISO 20022 message standards, and real-time payment systems (e.g., RTGS, SEPA, Fedwire, CHIPS).
• Ability to design test cases around various payment types and regulatory scenarios (e.g., MT to MX message conversions, reconciliation, reporting validations).