At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.
This is a great opportunity to join the Opayo Technology Team and be part of the exciting projects and engineering changes we make to ensure the Opayo payment processing gateway continues to be best in class.
This high performing team ensures that all changes are implemented successfully across all the Opayo Face-to-Face Payment Gateway.
Test automation is key to this role so we’re looking for somebody to create and maintain test cases using our automated testing frameworks. This role will also provide insight into the lifecycle of how transactions flow through our business and visibility into key business processes and procedures from a testing perspective.
As a tester you will be embedded into a SCRUM team, working with business analysts and product owners to clarify business requirements for the team. You will be a pivotal member of the team ensuring that deliverables have fulfilled all functional and non-functional requirements
You will be expected to learn the details of payment processing and with collaboration from BAs guide the developers. You should have an excellent eye for detail and confidence to hold experienced engineers to account when required.
CORE FUNCTIONS OF ROLE:
Improving and maintaining (or replacing) existing automation frameworks/tests
Being a strong influence on the Test Team’s decision making and direction
Designing and implementing automation tests cases
Performing exploratory testing, identifying defects and co-ordinating resolution.
Identifying and writing acceptance criteria for user stories
Executing regression testing on software releases
Review and validate findings, providing feedback and results to scrum team, scrum master and management.
Issue test completion and sign-off documentation, ensuring no unexpected impacts to merchants or production system.
Be an active participant in Agile ceremonies including daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, backlog refinements etc.
Assist other business area teams, monitoring and responding to inquiries and questions, tracking and logging calls relevant to test environment.
SKILLS NEEDED:
Strong desire to use technical knowledge and learn new systems and business processes
Strong development background. Tests are written in Python
Software Testing & Quality Assurance skills
Analytical & troubleshooting skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills including creating quality documentation/diagrams
Comfortable with standard development tools such as Git, IDEs, Confluence/Jira
Experience with Windows Server
Database experience (SQL Server preferred)
Ability to multi-task and test a number of projects in parallel
Effective management of time and priorities to ensure commitments are met
Self-motivated with the energy, drive and ambition to succeed
Organised and methodical approach with good attention to detail
Good organization skills and ability to manage time and tasks with minimum supervision
Should be able to work effectively in fast paced, multi-tasking environment, under time pressure, in an agile/scrum environment with a desire to achieve excellence.
Ability and interest in mentoring more junior or inexperienced team members
EXPERIENCE NEEDED
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field; or equivalent and relevant work experience.
6+ years proven Test automation / development experience
2+ years proven experience working in an agile or scrum environment
Self-starter: ability to review technical documents and work on own initiative.
Low-level experience using Pytest or similar Test Framework
DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE
Payment processing experience
Experience with reasonably large interconnected multi-threaded systems
Comfortable with security / cryptography concepts
Understanding of networks, TCP sockets / sessions
Experience with AWS
Experience with other scripting languages like PowerShell
The role offers a hybrid / flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.
This role is a 3 year FTC
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.
Benefits:
We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.
