Sr. SDET

About the Company:

Netspend Corporation is a global, vertically-integrated financial services and technology company dedicated to the delivery of innovative financial empowerment solutions to consumers worldwide. Netspend's financial products and services span prepaid, debit, cross-border payments, and loyalty solutions for consumers and enterprise partners.

Netspend provides prepaid and debit account solutions that connect customers with secure, convenient access to global payment networks so they can manage their money and make everyday purchases. With a nationwide U.S. retail network, customers can purchase and reload Netspend products at 130,000 reload points and over 100,000 distributing locations.

Since our founding in 1999 by industry pioneers, Netspend products have processed billions of dollars in transaction volume and served millions of customers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas with employees worldwide.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to drive quality engineering, test automation, and reliability across a fintech technology ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have strong programming expertise, hands-on experience building scalable automation frameworks, and a deep understanding of API-driven, distributed, and cloud-native systems. You will work closely with development, DevOps, and product teams to ensure the quality, security, performance, and reliability of financial applications, payment workflows, and transaction-processing systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reusable test automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.

· Develop automated test solutions using C#/.NET, Java, Python, or other suitable programming languages.

· Build and maintain automated test suites for REST APIs, microservices, GraphQL, databases, and asynchronous workflows.

· Validate financial transaction workflows, payment processing, transaction status updates, data integrity, and error-handling scenarios.

· Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and reliable releases.

· Perform functional, regression, integration, performance, scalability, and reliability testing.

· Design and execute load and stress tests to evaluate system behaviour under peak transaction volumes.

· Investigate and troubleshoot complex defects across distributed systems and cloud-native applications.

· Collaborate with developers, architects, product managers, and DevOps teams to define test strategies and quality standards.

· Develop reusable automation libraries, test utilities, service mocks, and test data management solutions.

· Work with containerised applications and Kubernetes-based environments to validate service reliability and deployment quality.

· Monitor test execution results, analyse failures, and provide actionable insights through test reports and quality metrics.