Description

• Key Responsibilities
  1. Quality Engineering & Automation
• Design, implement, and maintain automated testing across:
  • Unit testing (familiarity with SonarQube required)
  • API and integration testing ( Karate framework testing)
  • Load and performance testing (familiarity with Gatling required)
  • End-to-end workflow testing (familiarity with Playwright required)
• Increase automation coverage toward organizational targets (85–95%).
• Integrate automated tests directly into CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish reusable automation standards across platform services.
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  2. Platform Quality Ownership & Testing
  Support quality assurance across major Ninth Wave components.
  Responsibilities include:
• Identifying testing gaps across microservices.
• Ensuring consistent quality gates prior to deployment.
• Validating complex data flows between upstream banks and downstream partners.
• Perform functional, regression, performance, and security testing using both manual and automated methods.
• Leverage AI-enabled QA tools (e.g., automated test generation, defect prediction, intelligent regression testing) to speed up coverage and reduce defects.
• Validate third-party connectivity, ensuring compliance with industry standards (e.g., OFX, FDX, OAuth2, OIDC).
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  3. Incident Prevention & Reliability
• Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations.
• Convert production incidents into automated regression tests.
• Prevent recurrence of issues such as:
  • Duplicate submission conflicts (HTTP 409)
  • Bank feed synchronization failures (HTTP 103)
  • Batch processing blocks
  • Token lifecycle or authentication failures
• Partner with Engineering and Support to improve operational stability.
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  4. CI/CD Quality Governance
• Define and enforce quality gates aligned with daily deployment goals.
• Monitor automated test execution within pipelines.
• Establish measurable release-readiness criteria.
• Promote shift-left testing practices across engineering teams.
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  5. Reporting
• Produce coverage dashboards and testing metrics for leadership.
• Track:
  • Automation coverage
  • Defect escape rates
  • Regression effectiveness
  • Performance baselines
• Improve transparency of quality status across the organization.
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  6. Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work closely with:
  • Engineering teams
  • Platform onboarding teams
  • Product management
  • Client support & operations
• Advocate for testability during system design discussions.
• Work with developers on automated testing best practices.
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  Required Qualifications
• 5+ years experience in Software QA, Quality Engineering, or SDET roles.
• Strong experience testing distributed or microservice architectures.
• Hands-on automation experience with:
  • API testing frameworks (Karate, REST Assured, Postman automation)
  • UI automation tools (Playwright, Selenium)
  • Performance testing tools (Gatling, JMeter)
• Experience working in CI/CD environments (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, similar).
• Understanding of REST APIs, authentication flows, and data integrations.
• Hands on experience with SQL and database queries
• Experience analyzing production incidents and driving corrective actions.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
  
  Qualifications
• Experience in fintech, banking integrations, or data aggregation platforms.
• Familiarity with:
  • FDX or OFX standards
  • OAuth/token-based authentication
  • Financial reconciliation workflows
• Exposure to AI-enabled QA tools a plus (willingness to learn is required)
• Exposure to third party applications: Intuit's QBD/QBO, NetSuite, Sage, Plaid, Xero

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree