Apex Systems · 14 hours ago
Quality Assurance Consultant II
Charlotte, NC
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$50/hr - $51/hr
7+ years expApex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. They are seeking a Quality Assurance Consultant II responsible for testing and delivering complex software solutions that support US Payments. The role involves ensuring software meets all functional and regulatory requirements while leading the creation and maintenance of test frameworks and automation suites.
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Responsibilities
Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases based on functional, nonfunctional, compliance, and regulatory requirements unique to wire payments
Lead test planning for wire related features, ensuring clear acceptance criteria aligned to Fedwire, CHIPS, SWIFT MT/MX, and ISO 20022 specifications
Identify in scope and out of scope items with strong awareness of operational and regulatory impacts for high value, time sensitive wire transactions
Implement and maintain test frameworks supporting wire validation across end-to-end flows: initiation, enrichment, routing, settlement, exceptions, returns, and investigations
Lead test case reviews with SMEs, compliance, engineering, and operations to ensure coverage of payment rails and regulatory controls
Identify, design, and implement automation opportunities for high value wire scenarios, including message validation, MT/MX mapping, and ISO 20022 schema validation
Manage sensitive wire test data, including high value amounts, cross border formats, sanctions sensitive names, and compliance test sets
Execute manual and automated tests across integrated wire systems and record results with traceability to regulatory, functional, and technical requirements
Report issues with detailed diagnostics, including payment payload analysis (MT/MX, XML), trace logs, and clearing rail rule references
Lead triage of wire related defects, coordinating with developers, payment operations, compliance, and investigations teams to ensure timely resolution
Create and maintain end to end traceability across the development lifecycle, including mapping payment rail rules, regulatory standards, and business requirements
Use testing tools (message validators, XML editors, log analyzers, automation frameworks) and adhere to promotion, DevOps, and CI/CD processes for wire systems
Maintain and catalog regression suites across smoke, integration, and full cycle wire processing, ensuring coverage of resiliency, failover, and performance scenarios
Qualification
Required
7+ years of overall QA / software testing experience, including functional, integration, and regression testing
5+ years of QA experience in high value payments or banking (US Wires – Fedwire, CHIPS, or SWIFT MT/MX / ISO 20022)
3+ years of experience as a QA lead / senior QA owning test strategy and execution for a squad or feature area
Strong hands-on experience with test automation using tools such as Selenium, RestAssured, JUnit/TestNG, or similar
Experience testing Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, and event driven flows (Kafka or other messaging platforms)
Good SQL skills and experience validating data in Oracle (or similar RDBMS), including complex joins and reconciliation
Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, qTest, ALM, Zephyr)
Experience working in CI/CD environments (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps) and integrating automated tests into pipelines
Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments and basic shell scripting to support environment validation and log analysis
Knowledge of wire domain message formats (SWIFT MT, ISO 20022 MX) and validation of key data elements and rules
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with developers, product owners, and business/operations partners
Preferred
Experience analyzing, validating, and troubleshooting Fedwire and CHIPS message elements, routing codes, settlement attributes, and wire payment statuses
Deep knowledge of SWIFT MT/MX standards, including mandatory fields, sequence rules, and cross element validations
Hands on experience validating ISO 20022 MX schemas, data dictionaries, and mapping between legacy MT messages and MX formats
Familiarity with wire investigations, inquiries, adjustments, and exception handling workflows (NOCs, rejects, returns, compliance holds)
Understanding of sanctions screening, OFAC lists, AML controls, and regulatory obligations impacting wire processing
Experience supporting or testing integrations with fraud systems, core banking, sanctions engines, payment orchestration layers, and downstream ledger platforms
Knowledge of high availability and resiliency requirements for time critical payment systems, including failover, disaster recovery, and performance testing
Ability to interpret payment rail rulebooks (Fedwire Operating Circulars, CHIPS Rules, SWIFT Standards) and apply them to test scenarios
Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills, with ability to explain complex wire related issues to both technical and business stakeholders
Experience working within Agile environments supporting continuous refinement, automation, and process improvement for wire payment capabilities
Experience with performance and reliability testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, Locust)
Exposure to observability and log platforms (e.g., Splunk, ELK, Dynatrace, AppDynamics) for debugging and validation
Experience with test data management, synthetic data generation, and masking strategies for regulated environments
Familiarity with regulatory and compliance considerations (OFAC, AML, sanctions) from a QA/test case perspective
Prior experience in payments vendor platforms and related tools (e.g., Lenium/Lennium or other in-house QA utilities)
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life
Disability
Other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection
ESPP (employee stock purchase program)
401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure
HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan)
SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions
Corporate discount savings program
Other discounts
On-demand training program
Access to certification prep
Library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure
Certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA
Dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources
Certified Career Coach
Company
Apex Systems
Apex Systems, a division of On Assignment, provides organizations with IT staffing solutions to address gaps in their current workforce.
1001-5000 employees
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