Senior Automation QA Engineer

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Automation QA Engineer to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Automation QA Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. The Test Manager will lead the quality assurance and testing strategy for a large-scale Gateway Consolidation Program, focusing on migrating five legacy gateways onto a single target .NET platform. This role is critical to setting up the ways of working, test strategy, and overarching QA governance. The test manager should lead the testing team through the active delivery phase, ensuring both functional and non-functional requirements are met.

Responsibilities:

• Define and establish the overarching test strategy, QA ways of working, and governance
• Manage, direct, and scale the QA team during the delivery phase within a large-scale, program structure
• Define full end-state technology readiness tests
• Co-own, define and control non-functional requirements
• Establish and enforce quality gates and acceptance criteria
• Lead synthetic stress testing, exploratory scenario brainstorming, and architecture walkthroughs
• Establish data migration integrity testing
• Validate the safe transfer of tokens, subscriptions, and configurations
• Validate complex API adapters and routing logic to ensure follow-on operations (refunds, voids, captures) accurately bridge legacy and target systems

Requirements:

• Strong extensive experience as a test manager/test lead managing test strategies in complex projects
• Proven experience operating within and setting up QA processes for large environments (e.g. SAFe)
• Proven experience with integration and migration of complex systems
• Strong payment gateway / processor domain knowledge focused on the US market and PCI compliance
• Deep expertise in non-functional testing (capacity, performance, scalability, resilience, security)
• Experience with AI augmented testing and AI powered SDLC
• Strong domain knowledge of B2B and B2C payment capabilities
• Rigorous understanding of PCI-DSS compliance and data encryption validation
• Experience validating integrations across diverse enterprise architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP) and legacy codebases (Java, PHP, SQL)

Desirable:

• Experience with the US processor TSYS and US payment methods such as ACH
• Experience testing hardware interactions with pre-certified physical payment terminals, such as Ingenico, Verifone and PAX
• Familiarity with auditing AI-generated code or AI-assisted deliverables for security and compliance adherence

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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