- Design, document, and execute test cases for banking and payment transaction flows across APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems.

- Validate the quality, reliability, resilience, and testability of solutions throughout the software development lifecycle.

- Test critical payment flows in distributed architectures, including API transactions, messaging platforms, event processing, and associated business outcomes.

- Develop and execute multi-layer test strategies, including API testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, and non-functional testing.

- Contribute to test automation initiatives and participate in the development and maintenance of automated test assets.

- Use quality metrics, anomaly trends, and operational data to improve testing effectiveness and reduce delivery risk.

- Identify and communicate technical risks, testing gaps, quality debt, and optimization opportunities.

- Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to embed quality and testability into solution design.

- Track and manage defects, test execution activities, and quality metrics using Jira or similar tools.

- Support continuous improvement of QA practices, automation, and quality engineering.

Requirements

- 5 to 7+ years of experience in software quality assurance, API testing, integration testing, or quality engineering.

- Strong experience in API testing, including validating request/response behavior, integration points, data payloads, and transaction flows.

- Experience testing event-driven architectures and messaging-based systems, including Kafka or similar technologies.

- Experience creating test cases, executing tests, analyzing results, and managing defects through to resolution.

- Solid understanding of integration testing and end-to-end business process validation.

- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.





- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to prioritize testing activities by business risk and criticality.

- Ability to work effectively with developers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional delivery teams.

- Bilingual communication skills in French and English.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

- Experience in the banking, financial services, or payments sectors.

- Experience testing payment processing systems, financial transaction platforms, or regulated environments.

- Experience contributing to test automation initiatives.

- Knowledge of Java and/or Python.

- Experience with distributed systems and microservices architectures.

- Knowledge of CI/CD concepts and modern software delivery practices.

- Experience with Jira and related quality management tools.

- Prior experience in large enterprise environments.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in API Testing, Integration Testing, and Quality Engineering within banking and payment transaction flows. Proficient in developing test strategies, contributing to test automation, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure quality and reliability in software solutions.

Highest-signal resume keywords

- API Testing

- Integration Testing

- Test Automation

- Agile Delivery

- Bilingual Communication

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

- Software Quality Assurance

- Test Case Development

- Event-Driven Architecture Testing

- Data Payload Validation

- Defect Management

Soft Skills

- Analytical Skills

- Problem-Solving Skills

- Collaboration

Industry Keywords

- Banking

- Financial Services

- Payments

- Regulated Environments

Tools & Technologies

- Jira

- Kafka

- CI/CD Concepts

- Microservices Architectures

📌 Senior QA Analyst, SDET – Payments, API & Event Testing (Montreal)
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