QA Automation Engineer

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Quality Engineer in Charlotte, NC (Hybrid). Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today. Contract Duration: 6+ months Seeking a seasoned Quality Engineer with strong domain expertise in banking and payments, capable of driving quality engineering across high-throughput payment flows (e.g., Wires/SWIFT, FedNow, CHIPS, ISO20022, ACH/NACHA, RTP). The ideal candidate will bring automation expertise and innovative approaches to efficiently validate and test for SWIFT Industry Standards compliance. Required Skills & Experience 7–10+ years in test automation with 5+ years in banking/payments platforms. Strong in one or more: Java, C#, Python, or TypeScript; hands?on with Selenium/Playwright/Cypress and API testing (RestAssured/Postman). Experience with message validation (JSON, XML, ISO20022 schemas), file-based and real-time processing, asynchronous and event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ). Solid grasp of CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins), Git, Docker/K8s, environment variables/secrets, and test parallelization. Proven capability with SQL and at least one NoSQL (e.g., Mongo); experience setting up synthetic test data and masking strategies. Experience with Jira, Octane. Understanding of SWIFT/ISO20022, FedNow principles, fraud and risk controls, and secure coding/testing practices. What You Will Be Doing Build & Evolve Automation Frameworks Design and maintain scalable, modular UI/API/service-level/Database automation frameworks (preferably in Java/C#/TypeScript/Python) using tools like Selenium/WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, Postman. Implement robust test data management, environment selectors, and parallel execution at scale; champion test stability (flaky test reduction). Quality in CI/CD Integrate test suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GitLab CI) with gating policies, test dashboards, and quality thresholds (code coverage, pass rates, performance baselines). Shift-left: PR-level unit/contract tests; shift-right: synthetic monitoring and observability validations post-deploy. Payments Domain Validation Author automation for end-to-end payment journeys: initiation-validation-routing-posting-notifications-reconciliation. Validate file and real-time trails: Wires/SWIFT (MT/MX, ISO20022), RTP, FedNow, Chips. Verify message schemas (e.g., ISO20022 pain.001/pacs.008/camt), and SWIFT MX mapping; ensure idempotency, FX/fees/tax, cut-offs, holidays, and retries. #J-18808-Ljbffr Motion Recruitment Partners LLC