Payment Terminal QA Automation Engineer

Cognizant

Sydney

Hybrid

AUD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Cognizant Australia is seeking a Payment Terminal Automation Engineer to ensure reliability, security, and performance of POS terminals, terminal management platforms, and core payment switch integrations. You will join the Quality Assurance / In-Person Payments team and collaborate with engineers to modernize QA practices across payment domain testing and automation tooling.

The role requires hands-on QA in payments, deep knowledge of ISO 8583/AS2805, API testing with Postman and Playwright

Qualifications

  • Hands-on QA engineering background in payments and terminal testing.
  • Deep expertise in ISO 8583 and AS2805 message structures.
  • Experience with end-to-end POS transaction flows and EMV kernel behavior.
  • Strong SQL skills and ability to analyze logs and terminal debug data.

Responsibilities

  • Execute end-to-end testing across physical and smart Android payment terminals.
  • Validate POS purchase flows, terminal kernel behavior, and full transaction processing.
  • Parse and validate payment messages against ISO 8583 and AS2805 standards.
  • Design, automate, and execute REST/SOAP API test suites using Postman and Newman; build scalable Playwright automation for UI and API integrations.
  • Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) for continuous regression testing across terminal and host release cycles.

Skills

QA engineering
payments testing
ISO 8583
AS2805
EMV kernel
PIN handling
API testing
Postman
Newman CLI
Playwright
UI automation
CI/CD integration
SQL
log analysis
troubleshooting

Tools

Postman
Newman CLI
Playwright
CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps)

Job description

Cognizant Australia is seeking a Payment Terminal Automation Engineer to ensure reliability, security, and performance of POS terminals, terminal management platforms, and core payment switch integrations. You will join the Quality Assurance / In-Person Payments team and collaborate with engineers to modernize QA practices across payment domain testing and automation tooling.

The role requires hands-on QA in payments, deep knowledge of ISO 8583/AS2805, API testing with Postman and Playwright

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