Senior QA Engineer III – Automation | Banking | API | Kafka | ETL

Senior QA Engineer III – Automation | Banking | API | Kafka | ETL

Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior QA Engineer III with strong hands-on test automation and banking/financial services experience to support complex enterprise applications and integration environments.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and enhance scalable automation frameworks from scratch.
• Develop and execute automated test suites for APIs, backend services, Kafka, ETL/data pipelines, databases, and file-based integrations.
• Lead end-to-end functional, integration, regression, and system testing across complex banking applications.
• Automate API workflows, backend validations, and data-processing scenarios using Java or Python.
• Develop API automation using Rest Assured, Postman Collections, or equivalent frameworks.
• Perform API performance and load testing using JMeter or similar tools.
• Validate Kafka producer/consumer message flows, event processing, message integrity, and downstream integrations.
• Design automated tests for ETL jobs, data transformations, pipelines, and reconciliation processes.
• Perform advanced SQL and database validation to confirm data accuracy, completeness, and transactional integrity.
• Test data movement across APIs, microservices, messaging platforms, databases, ETL processes, and file-based interfaces.
• Investigate complex defects, integration failures, automation issues, and data discrepancies.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD and continuous testing pipelines.
• Collaborate with Developers, Business Analysts, Product, DevOps, and QA teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Contribute to test strategy, automation architecture, quality standards, test planning, and risk identification.
• Prepare and maintain test plans, test cases, automation strategies, execution reports, defect documentation, and traceability matrices.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and intermediate QA engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement across automation coverage, testing efficiency, frameworks, tools, and QA practices.

What You Bring

Must Have

• 5+ years of progressive QA/software testing experience, including substantial hands-on automation experience.
• Strong experience within banking, financial services, fintech, or complex transaction-based environments.
• Proven experience designing and building test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Strong automation development experience using Java or Python.
• Hands-on experience with API and backend automation, including Rest Assured, Postman, or equivalent tools/frameworks.
• Strong experience with API functional, integration, response validation, performance, and load testing.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, including producer/consumer flows, message validation, and event-driven integration testing.
• Experience with ETL testing, data pipeline validation, transformation testing, and data reconciliation.
• Strong SQL and database testing experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, or similar relational databases.
• Experience with JMeter or equivalent performance-testing tools.
• Experience testing complex end-to-end integrations across APIs, messaging, databases, ETL pipelines, and file-based interfaces.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, automated test execution, and reporting tools.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to independently own complex QA and automation initiatives.
• Experience providing technical guidance, peer reviews, knowledge sharing, or mentorship.

Nice to Have

• Experience with batch processing systems and enterprise job schedulers.
• PostgreSQL validation and performance-testing experience.
• Experience testing microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure and cloud-based enterprise environments.
• Understanding of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) / Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience supporting high-volume banking transactions, integrations, and data-processing platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of progressive QA / software testing experience with significant automation responsibility.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at a Senior QA Engineer / Q