Senior QA Automation Engineer (Payment Clearing Systems)

Job Title: Senior QA Automation Engineer Payment Clearing Systems

Experience: 3-5 Years

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior QA Automation Engineer to drive quality assurance initiatives for a mission-critical Payment Clearing Platform. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in payment processing, transaction systems, financial messaging standards, and automation testing, along with exposure to modern AI-driven testing approaches.

Key Responsibilities

• Payment Validation
• Validate end-to-end payment clearing and settlement cycles.
• Test financial message formats including ISO 20022, SWIFT, and payment transaction flows.
• Verify reconciliation processes, settlement rules, exception handling, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Test Automation
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks.
• Build robust regression suites covering APIs, UI, and backend payment workflows.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality validation.
• AI-Driven Quality Engineering
• Leverage AI-enabled testing techniques including:
• Autonomous test generation
• Self-healing test scripts
• Predictive defect analytics
• Intelligent test optimization
• Test Data Management
• Create and maintain synthetic, compliance-safe financial test data.
• Support testing of high-volume payment, clearing, and reconciliation scenarios.
• API & Integration Testing
• Validate REST/SOAP APIs and message-based integrations.
• Perform end-to-end testing across payment gateways, settlement engines, and downstream systems.
• Collaboration
• Work closely with Product Owners, Developers, Business Analysts, and DevOps teams.
• Participate in requirement reviews, defect triage, and release planning activities.

Required Skills

• 3-5 years of experience in QA Automation.
• Experience testing Payments, Clearing, Settlement, Banking, FinTech, or Transaction Processing Systems.
• Strong knowledge of:
• ISO 20022
• SWIFT messaging
• Payment clearing and settlement processes
• Reconciliation workflows
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as:
• Selenium
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Rest Assured
• Strong API testing experience using Postman or similar tools.
• Good understanding of SQL and database validation.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of Agile and DevOps methodologies.