Payments QA Engineer: API & End-to-End Testing

Bright Sol; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

BrightSol seeks an experienced QA Tester / Quality Assurance Engineer with strong payments domain knowledge to join our quality engineering team in Phoenix or Sandy. The role requires 6 years of hands‑on QA experience, focusing on payment processing, transaction lifecycles, and testing methodologies.

You will design and execute comprehensive test strategies, validate payment‑related functionality, and collaborate with developers, business analysts, and product owners to deliver high‑quality

Qualifications

• 6 years of professional Quality Assurance / Software Testing experience.
• Strong experience with payments or financial services applications.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end payment transaction life cycle.
• Experience testing payment processing systems, transaction platforms, or financial applications.
• Strong knowledge of functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with API testing using tools such as Postman, SoapUI, REST Assured, or similar.
• Strong SQL/database testing skills.
• Experience with defect management and test management tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, Zephyr, or ALM.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Test payment processing workflows, including payment initiation, authorization, capture, settlement, refunds, reversals, and chargebacks.
• Validate payment transactions across different payment methods and channels.
• Test APIs and integrations between payment systems, banking platforms, third‑party processors, and internal applications.
• Validate transaction data, payment statuses, error handling, and reconciliation processes.
• Perform database validation using SQL queries.
• Identify, document, track, and verify defects using tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Collaborate with developers to troubleshoot defects and determine root causes.
• Participate in requirements reviews and provide QA input on functional and technical specifications.
• Develop and maintain regression test suites.
• Support release testing, production validation, and post‑release verification.
• Work with Agile/Scrum teams and participate in sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Analyze test results and provide clear QA status reports and release recommendations.
• Contribute to improving QA processes, automation opportunities, and overall test coverage.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Payments domain

SQL testing

API testing

Agile/Scrum

Test automation basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Zephyr

ALM

Job description

BrightSol seeks an experienced QA Tester / Quality Assurance Engineer with strong payments domain knowledge to join our quality engineering team in Phoenix or Sandy. The role requires 6 years of hands‑on QA experience, focusing on payment processing, transaction lifecycles, and testing methodologies.

You will design and execute comprehensive test strategies, validate payment‑related functionality, and collaborate with developers, business analysts, and product owners to deliver high‑quality