Automation Tester - SDET

At Global Payments, technology powers the future of commerce. As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of solutions that connect our business, technology teams, and clients across a global payments ecosystem. You'll help transform complex technical challenges into secure, scalable, and high-quality products that drive real business impact.

• Lead quality assurance efforts across web, mobile, API, and enterprise applications, ensuring successful delivery of reliable and scalable solutions.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scenarios based on business requirements, user stories, and technical specifications.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks using modern tools and technologies such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress.
• Validate application functionality through manual and automated testing, identifying defects and ensuring resolution prior to production deployment.
• Perform API and backend testing using tools such as Postman, RestAssured, and cURL, validating request/response payloads, response codes, and database integrity.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, product owners, business analysts, and stakeholders throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment quality and accelerate release cycles.
• Conduct root cause analysis for production and testing defects, providing actionable recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Drive adherence to quality standards, testing best practices, security controls, and PCI compliance requirements.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation sessions, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Mentor and support other QA professionals by sharing knowledge, reviewing testing approaches, and promoting engineering excellence.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen testing processes, application quality, and team productivity.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of software quality assurance experience, including at least 2-3 years in a Senior or Lead QA capacity.
• Proven experience developing comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test execution frameworks for complex enterprise applications.
• Strong expertise in test automation using tools such as:Selenium Playwright Cypress
• Programming experience in one or more of the following:JavaScript / TypeScript Java Python
• Strong experience testing RESTful APIs and web services using:Postman RestAssured cURL
• Experience validating:JSON payloads API response codes Database transactions Data integrity through SQL querying
• Hands-on experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as:GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI
• Deep understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies with active participation throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Strong defect management experience using Jira, including root cause analysis, defect tracking, prioritization, and lifecycle management.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

• Experience within the payments, banking, fintech, or financial services industry.
• Knowledge of digital payments, payment processing, POS platforms, tokenization, mobile payment solutions, and e-commerce technologies.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience leveraging Docker and containerized environments for test execution and scalability.
• Exposure to performance, security, or load testing methodologies.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive quality-focused decision-making.

You'll join a highly collaborative technology organization that values innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence. Our team builds and supports solutions that power millions of payment transactions globally, creating secure and seamless commerce experiences for businesses and consumers.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to shape quality assurance standards, influence technical decisions, improve automation capabilities, and contribute directly to the delivery of critical payment technology solutions.

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner, and win as one team. We are curious, innovative, and committed to delivering meaningful results. We empower each other to make decisions, challenge the status quo, and create better experiences for our customers every day.