Quality Automation Engineer

Salary: $84,448 - 120,640 per year Requirements:

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in software quality assurance, test automation, or software development engineering in test (SDET).
• Strong skills developing automated tests with Python and pytest.
• Familiarity with FastAPI and Python-based backend services.
• Advanced SQL skills, including complex joins, subqueries, aggregations, and backend data validation.
• Experience testing financial applications, banking platforms, payment systems, fintech solutions, or other regulated transaction-processing environments.
• Hands-on experience testing REST APIs and backend integrations.
• Experience with SOX compliance, internal controls, access controls, or audit-related testing.
• Understanding of financial reconciliations, transaction processing, and data accuracy requirements.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of functional, regression, integration, negative, and end-to-end testing methods.
• Preferred: Experience testing Java-based microservices or distributed applications.
• Preferred: Familiarity with Playwright or other modern automation frameworks.
• Preferred: Experience with PostgreSQL, AWS, or cloud-based financial applications.
• Preferred: Knowledge of Kafka, asynchronous messaging, or event-driven architectures.
• Preferred: Experience validating financial valuations, pricing calculations, or accounting-related transactions.
• Preferred: Experience testing immutable audit logs, approval controls, and transaction traceability.
• Preferred: Understanding of Agile/Scrum development methods.

• Design, develop, and run Python and pytest automated scripts to validate backend applications, APIs, and financial workflows.
• Create test plans and perform functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and nonfunctional testing.
• Write complex SQL queries to verify financial calculations, transaction records, account balances, and reconciliations.
• Test REST APIs using Postman, REST Assured, or comparable tools.
• Verify financial transaction lifecycles, including processing, approvals, exceptions, and status changes.
• Test internal controls such as segregation of duties, role-based access, approval workflows, and unauthorized transaction scenarios.
• Support SOX compliance testing by maintaining test documentation, traceability, and audit-ready evidence.
• Validate event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, message sequencing, error handling, and transaction-processing reliability.
• Test integrations among financial platforms, microservices, databases, and third-party systems.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous testing and application releases.
• Investigate application defects using SQL queries, API responses, system logs, and test results.
• Work with developers, business analysts, accounting teams, and compliance stakeholders to resolve defects and improve test coverage.
• Maintain test scripts, test data, execution reports, defect records, and supporting documentation.

• API
• AWS
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• FastAPI
• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• Playwright
• PostgreSQL
• Postman
• Python
• REST
• SQL
• microservices
• pytest
• Network
• Security

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We are recruiting a Quality Automation Engineer for a contract opportunity supporting a Fortune 500 manufacturing company and its enterprise financial applications and backend services. The role is based in Plano, Texas, with a hybrid arrangement requiring onsite attendance on Wednesdays. This is a six-month contract with potential extension, scheduled Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time. The estimated pay range is $40.60–$58.00 per hour, with the stated opportunity rate up to $58 per hour on W-2; actual pay depends on experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications. We offer eligible employees benefits that may include medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage; a health savings account; life and disability insurance; voluntary benefits; an employee assistance program; a 401(k) plan; weekly payroll; referral bonuses; and certification and training opportunities. Yoh provides consulting, staffing, and enterprise solutions, and is part of the Day & Zimmermann family of companies. We are an equal opportunity employer.

last updated 43 week of 2026