: Automation Tester With Playwright & C# - Cored Banking

Watershed Consulting; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Watershed Consulting in Sandton, South Africa, seeks a Senior QA Engineer to ensure quality across the Core Banking platform and integrations. The role emphasizes automation-first testing across API, data, and UI layers; on-site work in Sandton.

The incumbent will design scalable automation frameworks, mentor juniors, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive quality throughout the SDLC. Finacle experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in software testing and quality assurance.
• 5+ years experience in test automation with hands-on implementation.
• Demonstrable experience testing Core Banking or Financial Services platforms; Finacle experience is desirable.
• Proven experience testing complex integrations, APIs, data migrations and end-to-end banking processes.
• Strong understanding of financial data integrity, reconciliation and regulatory risk.
• Experience implementing automated testing within CI/CD pipelines and working in Agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Own testing activities across project and BAU initiatives from planning through to release.
• Design and execute risk-based test strategies covering functional, integration, API, regression, end-to-end and UAT testing.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and regression suites.
• Build and execute automated tests using xUnit, NUnit, C#/.NET and Playwright.
• Perform API testing using Postman or Bruno and validate data using SQL and Azure Cosmos DB where required.
• Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing practices.
• Analyse requirements to ensure complete business and technical test coverage.
• Manage defects through to resolution and contribute to root cause analysis and quality improvements.
• Lead and execute testing for integrations, data migrations and data validation across Core Banking systems.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and promote quality engineering best practices across the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle and provide quality leadership across initiatives.

Skills

Playwright

C#

DotNet

xUnit

NUnit

REST API Testing

SQL

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Test Automation

End-to-End Testing

Agile Methodologies

Core Banking

Finacle

API Testing

Postman

Bruno

Data Validation

Tools

Postman

Bruno

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Pipelines

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Title

Automation Tester - Playwright & C# (Core Banking) 2x roles

Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior QA Engineer to join the Core Banking Team based in Sandton. The role focuses on ensuring quality across the Finacle Core Banking platform and its integrations with channels, data platforms, APIs and downstream systems. This position promotes an automation-first approach, combining manual and automated testing throughout the software development lifecycle. This is an on-site role in Sandton. All background checks must be clear.

Responsibilities

• Own testing activities across project and BAU initiatives from planning through to release.
• Design and execute risk-based test strategies covering functional, integration, API, regression, end-to-end and UAT testing.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable automated test frameworks and regression suites.
• Build and execute automated tests using xUnit, NUnit, C#/.NET and Playwright.
• Perform API testing using Postman or Bruno and validate data using SQL and Azure Cosmos DB where required.
• Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing practices.
• Analyse requirements to ensure complete business and technical test coverage.
• Manage defects through to resolution and contribute to root cause analysis and quality improvements.
• Lead and execute testing for integrations, data migrations and data validation across Core Banking systems.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and promote quality engineering best practices across the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle and provide quality leadership across initiatives.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in software testing and quality assurance.
• 5+ years experience in test automation with hands-on implementation experience.
• Demonstrable experience testing Core Banking or Financial Services platforms; Finacle experience is highly desirable.
• Proven experience testing complex integrations, APIs, data migrations and end-to-end banking processes.
• Strong understanding of financial data integrity, reconciliation and regulatory risk.
• Experience implementing automated testing within CI/CD pipelines and working in Agile teams.

Skills

Candidate should demonstrate strong technical skills in automation, API testing, data validation and quality engineering, along with leadership and stakeholder management capabilities.

. Skillset Required: Playwright, C#, DotNet, .NET, xUnit, NUnit, REST API Testing, Postman, Bruno, SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, CI/CD, Test Automation, Test Automation Frameworks, Test Strategy, Integration Testing, Data Migration Testing, Data Validation, End-to-End Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, STLC, SDLC, Agile Methodologies, Core Banking Testing, Finacle, Quality Engineering, Performance Testing, Security Testing, Azure Application Insights, KQL, Microservices, Cloud-native Applications, Mentoring, Defect Management