QA Automation - Payment Clearing Systems

Job Summary

Synechron is seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead quality assurance for a payment clearing platform. The role will validate payment processing, financial messaging, settlement, and reconciliation workflows while building reliable automation for continuous delivery. You will also support AI-driven testing and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams to improve platform quality and release confidence.

Software Requirements

Required

• Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript: 3+ years.
• Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent: 2+ years.
• API testing using REST Assured, Postman, Karate, or equivalent.
• SQL and relational database validation.
• Git and pull-request workflows.
• Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or equivalent CI/CD tools.
• Test management and defect tracking tools.
• Docker or equivalent container technology.
• XML, JSON, CSV, ISO 20022, or SWIFT message validation.

Preferred

• JUnit, TestNG, PyTest, Robot Framework, or equivalent.
• Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other messaging platforms.
• JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent performance-testing tools.
• Service virtualization and mocking tools.
• AI-assisted test generation, self-healing automation, or predictive defect analysis.
• Cloud, observability, and infrastructure-as-code tools.

Overall Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a risk-based QA strategy for payment clearing systems.
• Validate payment lifecycles, ISO 20022 and SWIFT messages, settlement rules, exceptions, and reconciliation.
• Build and maintain automated API, integration, UI, and end-to-end regression suites.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Create synthetic, compliance-safe test data for complex clearing scenarios.
• Investigate defects using logs, messages, databases, and transaction traces.
• Apply AI-supported testing for test generation, script maintenance, and defect analysis.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Developers, DevOps, and Business Analysts.
• Support release decisions with clear test results, defect trends, and risk assessments.
• Improve test coverage, execution efficiency, reliability, and traceability.

Technical Skills (By Category)

• Programming — Essential: Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
  Preferred: Experience with more than one language and event-driven systems.
• Databases and Data — Essential: SQL, relational databases, data validation, reconciliation, synthetic test data, and data masking.
  Preferred: Data warehouses, distributed databases, and event-stream validation.
• Cloud Technologies — Essential: Cloud-hosted environments, service dependencies, logs, and access controls.
  Preferred: Containers, orchestration, managed cloud services, and infrastructure as code.
• Frameworks and Libraries — Essential: UI and API automation frameworks; XML and JSON validation.
  Preferred: Contract testing, service virtualization, performance testing, and AI-enabled testing frameworks.
• Development Tools and Methodologies — Essential: Git, CI/CD, Agile delivery, defect management, test reporting, code review, and quality gates.
  Preferred: Test analytics, resilience testing, and observability platforms.
• Security Protocols — Essential: Secure test data handling, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, TLS, secrets management, and role-based access.
  Preferred: Security testing, digital signatures, certificate management, and regulated financial services controls.

Experience Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in QA automation or quality engineering.
• Experience testing fintech platforms, payment gateways, clearing systems, banking platforms, or transaction-processing systems.
• Practical experience with automated regression testing, APIs, databases, distributed services, and CI/CD.
• Experience with payment messages, settlement, reconciliation, exception handling, or transaction controls.
• Preferred experience with ISO 20022, SWIFT, high-volume processing, or regulated environments.
• Equivalent experience in software development, platform engineering, payment operations, or production support may be considered where strong automation capability is demonstrated.

Day-to-Day Activities

• Design payment and clearing test scenarios, including negative and recovery cases.
• Develop, execute, and maintain automated tests.
• Validate messages, transaction statuses, settlement results, and reconciliation outputs.
• Create test data and manage test environments.
• Review failures, logs, database records, and service responses.
• Participate in planning, refinement, defect triage, release discussions, and retrospectives.
• Review automation code and document test results, risks, and dependencies.
• Recommend quality improvements and escalate issues affecting payment accuracy, security, compliance, or release readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• ISTQB, Agile, DevOps, cloud, or payment-industry certifications are preferred.
• Completion of Synechron training in security, data protection, compliance, quality practices, and responsible AI.
• Ongoing development in payment technology, automation, cloud delivery, security, and AI-assisted testing is expected.

Professional Competencies

• Analytical problem-solving and root-cause investigation.
• Clear communication with technical and business stakeholders.
• Collaboration across Product, Engineering, DevOps, and Operations.
• Ability to prioritize work based on payment risk and customer impact.
• Adaptability to changing technologies and requirements.
• Evidence-based innovation, including responsible use of AI.
• Commitment to accurate documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.

S​YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
 

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

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