Senior Software Developer Engineer in Testing

The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C.; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. is seeking a Senior Software Developer Engineer in Testing (SDET) to join our RTP Product Engineering team. You will design, develop, and execute automated and manual test plans to ensure quality of our real-time interbank payment platform.

This role emphasizes automation, performance, and reliability in a cloud-native, distributed environment. As a senior member, you will drive testing best practices, collaborate with RTP Product and Operations teams,

Qualifications

• 6+ years as an SDET or similar, with automated testing focus using Java and Selenium.
• Design and develop robust test automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, WebDriver.
• Hands-on testing on AWS cloud deployments (EC2/ECS/EKS/Lambda).
• Experience with AWS services including S3, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, IAM.
• Experience testing event-driven apps using Apache Kafka; Linux and AIX environments.
• Familiar with Confluence, SharePoint; strong Agile/Iterative development experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, estimation, development, and implementation of test automation frameworks and strategies.
• Design and develop automated testing including creation, execution, and maintenance of automated scripts.
• Translate manual testing scenarios to test automation coverage across multiple products.
• Automate testing for use in a DevOps architecture.
• Collaborate with product teams and Operations; mentor junior QE on automation testing.

Skills

Strong problem-solving

Agile teamwork

DevOps collaboration

SQL querying

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM or equivalent experience

Tools

Java

Selenium

WebDriver

AWS

Kafka

Linux

AIX

Confluence

SharePoint

SQL

Job description

Position Summary

The Clearing House (TCH) is seeking a Senior Software Developer Engineer in Testing (SDET) to join our RTP Product Engineering team. As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated and manual test case, ensuring quality of our critical real-time interbank payment platform. This includes functionality, reliability and performance of existing and new applications. The Senior SDET works directly with RTP Product teams and Operations to aggregate business and technical requirements into high quality automation testing of TCH Systems. Develop and deliver testing best practices and processes to all projects while maintaining adherence to TCH standards.

This role is well suited for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, testing highly reliable systems, and delivering quality applications that operate at the core of financial infrastructure. The organization is actively transforming its payment platforms toward cloud-native, distributed architectures while introducing modern automation and AI-assisted engineering practices into its software development lifecycle.

TCH values engineers who are technically curious, pragmatic, and interested in understanding how complex systems work, end to end. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on quality engineer who has strong automation experience, understands distributed application architectures, and an avid interest in testing critical systems where performance, security, resiliency, and sustainability are vital for success.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Lead planning, estimation, development, and implementation of test automation frameworks and strategies
• Design and develop automated testing including creation, execution, and maintenance of automated scripts using industry best practices and standards
• Execute translation of manual testing scenarios to test automation coverage across multiple products
• Automate testing for use in a DevOps architecture
• Participate either as the sole QE resource on projects, or in an Agile scrum team
• Use of strong problem-solving skills to investigate and document defects and their respective resolutions
• Lead larger test automation efforts independently and act as a subject matter expert to team members on smaller efforts
• Effectively communicate status to stakeholders and proactively locate and address concerns
• Champion Agile best-practices, processes, and tools in support of DevOps processes with respect to developing testing automation
• Conform to department standards to comply with audit and regulatory policies
• Assist team members through cross-training on applications and systems, perform peer reviews, training and mentoring manual and junior QE members on automation testing
• Participate in the transformation of testing into a continuous and efficient end-to-end quality engineering function
• Aid in the evolution of more predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation
• Collaborate with other test engineers across products and projects to solve problems and deploy them, and mature automation testing practices

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM-related field (Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent experience (6+ years)
• 6+ years as an SDET or a similar role, with a strong focus on automated testing using Java and Selenium.
• Expertise in designing and developing robust test automation frameworks using Java, Selenium, WebDriver, and related tools
• Hands-on experience testing applications deployed within an AWS cloud platform
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, and IAM
• Experience testing event-driven applications using Apache Kafka
• Experience in the following environments: Linux and AIX
• Experience with Collaboration Tools- Confluence, SharePoint
• Knowledge and Experience in Agile and Iterative development methodologies
• Proven ability to define, design, develop and maintain test automation frameworks and test cases for software applications and/or systems
• Ability to write complex SQL queries to validate data accuracy, troubleshoot issues, and verify backend processing
• Demonstrated experience in test planning and execution activities, test strategy, test data definition, data setup, test execution, defect reporting & communication of status/metrics
• Ability to recognize risks and errors in an application and employ automation testing to reduce them
• Understand, analyze, and develop complex automated tests including data sets, positive and negative functional scenarios to ensure product quality
• Understand project documents and project objectives including User Stories or Requirements to create and execute test cases; ability to work with stakeholders to provide input on testability of functional elements
• Investigation of production problems, creation and management of defe