Genesis10 is currently seeking a Quality Assurance Consultant with our client in the financial industry located in Charlotte, NC. This is a 12+ month contract position.
Responsibilities:
- Test and deliver complex software solutions that support US Payments - Wires, including Fedwire, CHIPS, SWIFT MT/MX, and ISO 20022 enabled payment flows
- Ensure that software meets all functional, nonfunctional, compliance, and regulatory requirements associated with high value wire processing
- Validate payment messages, test routing and settlement workflows, support investigations and exception processing, and ensure systems remain compliant with OFAC, AML, and sanctions screening rules
- Lead the creation and maintenance of test frameworks, automation suites, regression packs, and test data strategies to ensure robust coverage across all wire related processes and integrated applications
- 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 to 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
Requirements:
- 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
- Selenium
- Cucumber
- Agile Coach
Desired skills:
- 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)
Pay Range: $41.08-$49.08
Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.
If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!
About Genesis10:
Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:
* Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
* The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
* Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
* Behavioral Health Platform
* Medical, Dental, Vision
* Health Savings Account
* Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
* Voluntary Term Life Insurance
* 401K
* Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
* Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF and Illinois)
For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Genesis10
life insurance, 401(k)
Jan 29, 2026