QA Automation Engineer

About the Position

We’re hiring a QA Automation Engineer to drive quality across our product suite, focusing on payment and billing flows. This isn’t a pure automation role. We want a well-rounded quality engineer, grounded in QA fundamentals and comfortable designing a test plan or exploring a feature by hand when that’s the right tool, who uses automation and AI as force multipliers, not a substitute for judgment.

You’ll design and build automation frameworks, wire quality gates into CI/CD, and use AI tools to generate, maintain, and heal tests, so your time goes where human judgment matters most. Where a payment flow can fail in production, you’ll have caught it first.

You’ll be embedded in a product pod, working alongside full-stack engineers, with a dotted line into the broader quality engineering community across our five pods.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own test automation frameworks for web UI (Playwright preferred) and APIs (REST, contract tests at service boundaries).
• Build integration and end-to-end coverage for payment-critical flows. Hosted and iframe-embedded payment pages, merchant onboarding, webhooks, recurring billing, refunds, and reconciliation.
• Cover multiple payment rails and regions. Cards with 3DS, ACH and eCheck in the US, PAD / ACSS debit in Canada, and surcharging rules that differ by card type.
• Own test data management. Seeding, isolation, teardown, and realistic finance scenarios (partial refunds, declined cards, ACH returns, disputed charges, trust vs operating account routing).
• Test feature-flag and entitlement matrices. The same flow can behave differently by region, brand, processor routing, and package tier, and your coverage has to prove all of them.
• Wire quality gates into CI/CD (TeamCity, GitHub Actions). Fast, reliable, deterministic suites that engineers trust and don’t bypass. Track and drive down flake; a flaky suite is a broken suite.
• Make AI the multiplier
  • Use AI tools daily to generate test cases, scaffold suites, refactor brittle tests, and analyze failures.
  • Build AI-assisted workflows for test generation from acceptance criteria. A well-written ticket should produce a draft test suite, not a blank file.
  • Evaluate and adopt AI-native testing approaches. Self-healing locators, agentic exploratory testing, AI-driven failure triage, and visual regression analysis.
  • Measure the gains. Coverage growth, authoring speed, escape rate, and time-to-triage, and report them.
  • Share what works with QA and QE engineers across all pods. You raise the AI-fluency bar for the whole quality org.
• Engineer quality into the SDLC
  • Shift quality left. Review acceptance criteria for testability before development starts and flag ambiguity and missing edge cases early.
  • Define test strategy with the pod. What gets unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, and what risk-based exploratory testing on top.
  • Run hands-on exploratory testing on new features and high-risk changes. Automation proves what you expected; exploration finds what you didn’t.
  • Test manually where it’s the right tool. New UI before automation exists, complex edge cases, and usability checks.
  • Own the regression, end-to-end, and UAT cycles that gate payment releases. GA doesn’t ship until your suites say it can, and rollback plans are tested, not theoretical.
  • Build observability into the test layer. When a suite fails, the failure should explain itself.
  • Contribute performance and load baselines for payment endpoints and watch for regressions.

Requirements

• 4+ years as a QA engineer, SDET, or automation engineer. You write production-grade automation code, not record-and-playback scripts, and you got there on a foundation of real testing skill.
• Solid QA fundamentals. Test design techniques (boundary analysis, equivalence partitioning, state transitions), test planning, and defect lifecycle management.
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript. C# is a strong plus given our.NET back-end.
• Deep, hands-on Playwright experience. Selectors strategy, network interception, parallelization, CI integration, and flake management.
• Solid API testing experience. REST, auth flows, webhooks, error contract correctness (a 500 where a 400 belongs is a bug you catch), and contract testing (Pact or similar is a plus).
• Comfort testing third-party embedded UI. Stripe components, iframes, postMessage flows, and the cross-frame defects they produce.
• Working SQL skills. You can verify data state in SQL Server, not just assert on the UI.
• CI/CD fluency. You’ve built or owned pipelines, not just consumed them.
• AI-driven testing
  • You already use AI coding assistants daily for test work and can demonstrate it live.
  • Genuine curiosity about agentic and AI-native testing. You’ve experimented with these approaches, or you’re visibly eager to.
  • Judgment about where AI output needs human review. Especially where money moves.
• Domain and quality mindset
  • Experience testing payment, billing, fintech, or other correctness-critical systems is strongly preferred.
  • You understand idempotency, race conditions, and async workflows well enough to design tests that catch their failure modes.
  • Risk-based thinking. You know what to automate, what to explore manually, and what to skip.
  • Strong communication. Your bug reports, test plans, and failure analyses are clear enough that engineers act on them without a meeting.

Nice to Have

• Performance and load testing (k6, Gatling, JMeter).
• Visual regression tooling and accessibility testing (axe, WCAG).
• Docker, AWS, and testing against containerized environments.
• Prior work in a pod or squad model embedded with developers.

Why Join Svitla

Svitla Systems is a global digital solutions company headquartered in the U.S. and operating across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and APAC. Since 2003, we have served a wide range of clients - from innovative start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Our success is built on partnership. By integrating seamlessly with clients' teams, we create lasting collaborations that drive real results. We are strong advocates of workplace flexibility, remote culture, individual approach to professional and personal growth.

Our global mission is to build a business that contributes to the wellbeing of our partners, personnel, and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world. Together, we are coding a brighter tomorrow - and living it.

Join us!

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