QA Automation Engineer (SDET) – Banking & Loan Lifecycle

Compunnel, Inc.; Cincinnati, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Compunnel, Inc. is seeking a QA Automation Engineer (SDET) to join a cross-functional Agile team focused on banking solutions. You will own test strategy and automation framework development for web, API, data extraction, and mobile areas, delivering scalable automation across loan lifecycle modules.

The role requires strong domain knowledge in commercial loan systems, end-to-end lifecycle, and collaboration with product, development, QA, and stakeholders to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with QA automation and software testing.
• Banking domain expertise with commercial loan systems and end-to-end loan lifecycle.
• Experience with customer onboarding and loan origination systems.
• Experience with loan funding and boarding across servicing platforms.
• Experience with payments, move-money processes, and deposit integrations.
• Experience with comprehensive loan servicing and lifecycle management.
• Experience with collateral management.
• Experience with loan participation and syndication.
• Strong knowledge of functional, API, regression, and integration testing methodologies.
• Experience developing comprehensive and effective test cases.
• Strong defect identification, logging, tracking, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience working within Agile development processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with technical teams, developers, QA teams, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, demonstrate ownership, and proactively identify and resolve challenges.
• Proven ability to use automation tools and frameworks to improve testing efficiency, quality, coverage, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of an Agile squad, chapter, and tribe while leading quality engineering efforts and collaborating across teams.
• Take ownership of test strategy, test planning, automation framework implementation, and test execution.
• Design and develop new test automation frameworks using a variety of automation tools.
• Develop reusable framework components and maintain clean, structured, cohesive, and maintainable automation code.
• Apply software design principles and innovative testing approaches to complex software solutions.
• Design and implement automated and exploratory tests for new features and functional changes.
• Drive automation initiatives for API/web services testing, Web UI testing, data extraction scripts, database testing, and test data management based on business needs.
• Author comprehensive test cases in test management tools and ensure adequate test coverage.
• Perform functional, API, regression, integration, and exploratory testing.
• Efficiently reproduce reported software issues, analyze data, identify root causes, and collaborate with team members to resolve defects.
• Maintain existing automation code and continuously improve testing frameworks, tools, and processes.
• Leverage AI capabilities such as self-healing locators and AI-assisted failure analysis where applicable, including solutions using Katalon and WebdriverIO.
• Collaborate with product, development, QA, and other stakeholders to define customer and product requirements and align them with product and test code.
• Communicate testing risks, concerns, ideas, and solutions clearly while adhering to quality governance standards and procedures.

Skills

QA automation

API testing

Agile methodologies

Communication

Problem-solving

Banking domain knowledge

Test strategy

Tools

Katalon

WebdriverIO

Jira

Job description

Compunnel, Inc. is seeking a QA Automation Engineer (SDET) to join a cross-functional Agile team focused on banking solutions. You will own test strategy and automation framework development for web, API, data extraction, and mobile areas, delivering scalable automation across loan lifecycle modules.

The role requires strong domain knowledge in commercial loan systems, end-to-end lifecycle, and collaboration with product, development, QA, and stakeholders to ensure quality and timely delivery.