Local - Automation Test Lead (Payment Processing) in Charlotte, NC - 28202 - Hybrid

[Vineet Sharma]

Please share resume to vin...@longfinch.com

 

Need only USC/GC

 

The client is looking for a Technical Test Lead with strong automation expertise who has worked specifically in banking or payment systems.

The role requires someone who can lead automation testing efforts for complex payment platforms, using Java, Playwright, and API testing tools, while validating real-time and event-driven transactions across systems like SWIFT, FedNow, RTP, and CHIPS. The candidate should understand the end-to-end payment lifecycle, be comfortable working with message formats like ISO 20022, JSON, and XML, and validate transactions through logs, databases, and messaging systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ). Additionally, they want someone who can integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, manage test environments, and ensure reliability, performance, and compliance in financial transaction systems, while leading testing strategy and ensuring secure, high-quality payment processing.

 

Job Title: Technical Test Lead | Automation testing
Location: Charlotte, NC 28202 (Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week)

Required Qualifications:
• 7–10+ years in test automation with 5+ years in banking/payments platforms.
• Strong in : Java,; hands on with Playwright and API testing (RestAssured/Postman).
• Experience with message validation (JSON, XML, ISO 20022 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.
• Basic knowledge on data base validation on both SQL and Mongo.
• Experience in Splunk logs validation
• Understanding end-to-end payment journeys (Wires/SWIFT (MT/MX, ISO 20022), RTP, FedNow, Chips) : initiation → validation → routing → posting → notifications → reconciliation.
• Understanding of SWIFT/ISO 20022, FedNow principles, fraud and risk controls, and secure coding/testing practices.

Nice-to-Have:
• Contract testing with schema-first approaches (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI).
• Domain exposure to reconciliations, liquidity, sanctions screening (OFAC), AML, and fraud signals/decisioning.
• Build automation for performance, soak, and resilience (throughput/latency/error budgets, circuit breakers, back-pressure).
• Execute chaos/failover/dr testing: timeouts, downstream unavailability, duplicate submissions, replay protection.
• Experience with Grafana dashboards

 

 

Thanks & Regards,

Vineet Kumar Sharma

Senior Technical Recruiter

E-Mail: vin...@longfinch.com

Website: www.longfinch.com