Job Title: Senior Test Automation Engineer Payments

Location: Salt Lake City, UT | Onsite

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: 6-12 months

Pay: $70-$75/hr

About:

VLink, founded in 2006, is a leading global provider of software engineering services with next-gen technologies and best-in-class talent. Our Headquarters are in the U.S, and we have offices in 7+ countries from North America-Europe to APAC, with expansion plans in the Middle East. With over 1,000 employees working globally, VLink has helped SMBs, and large enterprises achieve their business goals, and gained the trust of Fortune-250 companies. VLink is 'Great Place to Work CertifiedTM' and has been a consistent winner as- Best Places to Work in CT. Trust, collaboration, and accountability are the three elements that are at the core of VLink's work culture. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer Payments to join our team supporting a high-profile enterprise client.

In this role, you will help drive modern quality engineering practices across critical payment applications by designing and enhancing automation frameworks, expanding automated test coverage, and embedding testing throughout the software development lifecycle. You will work closely with product, business, development, and engineering teams to strengthen shift-left testing, continuous testing, API automation, and CI/CD integration.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced automation engineer who enjoys combining hands-on development, payments domain knowledge, API and database testing, cloud technologies, and DevOps practices to improve software quality and delivery efficiency.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain scalable and reusable test automation frameworks for complex enterprise applications.

• Develop and execute automated functional, integration, end-to-end, and regression test suites across critical business workflows.

• Advance shift-left testing by incorporating automated quality validation earlier in the software development lifecycle.

• Partner with Product Management, business stakeholders, developers, architects, and engineering teams to understand requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and critical business processes.

• Develop automated testing solutions for complex payment applications and transaction-processing workflows, including ACH, wire transfers, SWIFT, and related payment capabilities.

• Design and execute automated API and integration testing for REST and SOAP-based services.

• Create and execute SQL queries to validate application data, payment transactions, integrations, and expected processing outcomes.

• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous testing.

• Test applications deployed across public cloud and containerized environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Docker.

• Analyze automated test results, identify defects and quality risks, troubleshoot automation failures, perform root-cause analysis, and partner with development teams to drive issues through resolution.

• Identify opportunities to improve automation coverage, test efficiency, reliability, maintainability, and overall engineering productivity.

• Evaluate and recommend new testing tools, frameworks, technologies, and automation approaches based on evolving application and delivery needs.

• Estimate, plan, track, and report automation and testing activities throughout the delivery lifecycle.

• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

• Conduct automation code reviews and contribute to coding standards, reusable components, technical documentation, and secure development practices.

• Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in quality engineering, test automation, cloud-native development, DevOps, and continuous testing.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• 6+ years of experience in test automation, quality engineering, software testing, or a related discipline.

• Hands-on experience testing payment applications or transaction-processing systems, including ACH, wire transfers, SWIFT, and/or other electronic payment capabilities.

• Strong experience designing, developing, executing, and maintaining enterprise-scale test automation frameworks.

• Hands-on automation experience using Playwright and/or Selenium.

• Programming or automation development experience using Java and/or Python.

• Experience testing REST and SOAP APIs, including experience with tools such as Postman or comparable technologies.

• Strong SQL and relational database skills, including the ability to query and analyze data for transaction and test validation.

• Experience testing applications deployed on at least one major public cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Experience testing applications within containerized environments, including Docker.

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and working within continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous testing practices.

• Experience with development and delivery tools such as Bamboo, Git, Artifactory, Jira, and Confluence, or comparable technologies.

• Demonstrated experience planning, estimating, executing, tracking, and reporting automation and testing activities.

• Experience working within Agile and/or Waterfall software delivery methodologies.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex application and automation issues.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across business, product, development, and engineering teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Employment Practices:

VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

This job application process may use AI-powered tools to assist in screening and evaluating applications based on objective, job-related qualifications. AI is used solely to support the recruitment process and all final hiring decisions are made exclusively by our human recruitment team.

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