Global Payments SQA Lead- Quality Engineer

Bank of America•Jersey City, NJ

3d•$98,000 - $141,600•Onsite

About The Position

This job is responsible for testing and delivering complex software requirements to accomplish business outcomes, ensuring the testing strategy and processes are well-defined and continuously improved. Key responsibilities include establishing a test and automation strategy, creating common test frameworks, defining and managing test processes including test data generation, defect management and reporting. Job expectations include understanding and implementing internal/external mandate, ensuring compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments, and manages traceability. Results-driven QA professional with 5+ years of experience in treasury, payments, and transaction services. Proven ability to support parallel initiatives and deliver high-quality testing solutions within Agile development environments. Strong expertise in requirements analysis, data mapping, data validation, and integration testing, with a focus on data integrity and quality. Experienced in performing system and data analysis aligned to business needs, including integration testing and data quality validation. Demonstrated ability to create comprehensive test plans, scripts, and artifacts across all test phases. Skilled in identifying, documenting, and resolving data quality and integrity issues. Proficient in analyzing and validating DDCT mappings, workflows/sessions, and middleware jobs/processes while ensuring adherence to defined standards. Lead testing activities across treasury and payment systems, ensuring high data quality and integrity across integrated platforms. Develop and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and scripts across functional, integration, and component testing phases; collaborate with teams for end-to-end (E2E) validation. Perform detailed data analysis and validation using complex SQL queries across multiple systems. Validate XML/JSON payloads and API integrations, ensuring compliance with business and banking standards. Analyze and test mappings, workflows, and middleware processes to ensure accurate data transformation. Contribute to automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, and Cucumber to improve test efficiency. Participate in CI/CD pipelines and support continuous integration and deployment in Agile environments. Identify, document, and resolve data quality and integrity issues through root cause analysis. Collaborate with business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure clarity of requirements and adequate test coverage. Develop reusable solutions and support shared services initiatives to improve productivity and quality. Utilize UNIX scripting and regular expressions (RegEx) for data parsing, validation, and transformation. Drive a shared services strategy and foster a performance-driven culture. Contribute to automation, root cause analysis, and development of shared/common solutions. Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. Exhibit analytical thinking, attention to detail, problem solving, and leadership capabilities. Operate effectively in a highly Agile CI/CD environment. Mentor team members and promote QA and automation best practices aligned to enterprise standards. Drive innovation through scalable automation and continuous improvement initiatives. Define and execute a unified quality strategy aligned with modernization objectives. Lead cross-team test planning and execution across multiple Agile teams. Drive end-to-end collaboration across integration, business, and product partners. Establish quality governance standards, metrics, and quality gates. Own tooling and automation strategy to improve coverage and reduce manual effort. Provide transparency on quality health, risks, and release readiness. Ensure sustained ownership and domain expertise across a large modernization program. Maintain continuity and consistency across releases through stable leadership and aligned processes. Creates and optimizes test processes including defect management and reporting Creates and optimizes test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools Leads test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams Creates a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.) Ensures alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders Manages test execution and resolves, communicates or escalates any issues that may result in test plan variance Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above. Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Creates an inclusive team where members are treated fairly and respectfully. Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates and expects process knowledge, data driven decisions, simplicity and continuous improvement. Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Delivers clear and concise messages that motivate, convey the “why” and connects contributions to business results. Risk Manager: Leads and encourages the identification, escalation and resolution of potential risks. People Manager & Coach: Knows and develops team members through coaching and feedback. Financial Steward: Manages expenses and demonstrates an owner’s mindset. Enterprise Talent Leader: Recruits, on-boards and develops talent, and supports talent mobility for career growth. Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field
Strong understanding of system design and microservices architecture
Knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and unit testing frameworks (Cucumber, JUnit, Litmus)
Relevant IT experience in Agile environments, preferably within the financial domain
Strong experience in Java, web services, and SQL/PLSQL (Oracle)
Strong knowledge of XML and JSON within API and microservices implementations at scale
Advanced SQL skills with the ability to write complex cross-system queries
Experience with UNIX, shell scripting, and regular expressions (RegEx)
Strong experience (3+ years) in parsing and generating data/files, banking standards, XML, and XPath
Hands-on experience with tools such as Eclipse/NetBeans, TestNG, Selenium, Cucumber, Litmus, Bitbucket (or similar version control tools), and web services testing tools
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, debugging, and triaging skills
Ability to learn quickly and adapt, applying prior experience to new challenges
5+ years of experience in treasury, payments, and transaction services.
Proven ability to support parallel initiatives and deliver high-quality testing solutions within Agile development environments.
Strong expertise in requirements analysis, data mapping, data validation, and integration testing, with a focus on data integrity and quality.
Experienced in performing system and data analysis aligned to business needs, including integration testing and data quality validation.
Demonstrated ability to create comprehensive test plans, scripts, and artifacts across all test phases.
Skilled in identifying, documenting, and resolving data quality and integrity issues.
Proficient in analyzing and validating DDCT mappings, workflows/sessions, and middleware jobs/processes while ensuring adherence to defined standards.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to cloud technologies and containerization

Responsibilities

Lead testing activities across treasury and payment systems, ensuring high data quality and integrity across integrated platforms.
Develop and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and scripts across functional, integration, and component testing phases; collaborate with teams for end-to-end (E2E) validation.
Perform detailed data analysis and validation using complex SQL queries across multiple systems.
Validate XML/JSON payloads and API integrations, ensuring compliance with business and banking standards.
Analyze and test mappings, workflows, and middleware processes to ensure accurate data transformation.
Contribute to automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, and Cucumber to improve test efficiency.
Participate in CI/CD pipelines and support continuous integration and deployment in Agile environments.
Identify, document, and resolve data quality and integrity issues through root cause analysis.
Collaborate with business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure clarity of requirements and adequate test coverage.
Develop reusable solutions and support shared services initiatives to improve productivity and quality.
Utilize UNIX scripting and regular expressions (RegEx) for data parsing, validation, and transformation.
Drive a shared services strategy and foster a performance-driven culture.
Contribute to automation, root cause analysis, and development of shared/common solutions.
Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
Exhibit analytical thinking, attention to detail, problem solving, and leadership capabilities.
Operate effectively in a highly Agile CI/CD environment.
Mentor team members and promote QA and automation best practices aligned to enterprise standards.
Drive innovation through scalable automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
Define and execute a unified quality strategy aligned with modernization objectives.
Lead cross-team test planning and execution across multiple Agile teams.
Drive end-to-end collaboration across integration, business, and product partners.
Establish quality governance standards, metrics, and quality gates.
Own tooling and automation strategy to improve coverage and reduce manual effort.
Provide transparency on quality health, risks, and release readiness.
Ensure sustained ownership and domain expertise across a large modernization program.
Maintain continuity and consistency across releases through stable leadership and aligned processes.
Creates and optimizes test processes including defect management and reporting
Creates and optimizes test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools
Leads test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams
Creates a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.)
Ensures alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders
Manages test execution and resolves, communicates or escalates any issues that may result in test plan variance
Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments
Creates an inclusive team where members are treated fairly and respectfully.
Demonstrates and expects process knowledge, data driven decisions, simplicity and continuous improvement.
Delivers clear and concise messages that motivate, convey the “why” and connects contributions to business results.
Leads and encourages the identification, escalation and resolution of potential risks.
Knows and develops team members through coaching and feedback.
Manages expenses and demonstrates an owner’s mindset.
Recruits, on-boards and develops talent, and supports talent mobility for career growth.
Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines.