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.