Automation Engineer

About Payoneer Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories. By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence. Role summary Location: Guang Zhou On-site | Full-time We are seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer for our cross-border payment systems. You will join the QA team to build test automation from the ground up — we currently have no centralized automation framework. Your focus will cover API/integration automation and Web UI automation across the full platform, ensuring the reliability and quality of our cross-border payment systems. What you'll do Automation Strategy & Framework (0-to-1): Design and implement the team's first automation framework for our Java microservices platform; define automation scope, test data strategy, and reporting standards for both API/integration and UI layers. End-to-End System Automation: Build repeatable automated test suites covering core cross-border payment platform flows — including open APIs, backoffice services, UI workflows, and cross-service async chains — to support regression of core business scenarios. Async & File-Based Testing: Automate validation of scheduled jobs, message-driven flows, and file-based business processes; verify multi-step, cross-service state transitions and outcomes. Database & State Validation: Develop SQL-based assertions across multiple databases to verify transaction state machines, processing results, and cross-service data consistency. Defect & Quality Assurance: Track issue resolution, verify fixes, and ensure automated test results meet release quality standards; report progress and risks regularly. CI/CD & Smoke Automation: Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Alibaba Cloud DevOps / Codeup or similar); build and maintain smoke/connectivity checks for key dependencies before release. Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams on environment readiness, test data setup, and release validation in a complex multi-vendor payment environment. Compliance & Standards: Ensure automation coverage aligns with financial regulatory and payment-industry quality requirements. Who you are 5+ years of test automation / test development experience, with preference for payment, fintech, or cross-border financial systems. 3+ years working experience in a high-tech or fintech company, or hands-on experience in core modules of cross-border payments or third-party payments — preferred, not required. Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related fields. Technical Skills: Extensive hands-on experience in API/integration and Web UI automation; proficient with mainstream automation frameworks and able to independently design, build, or maintain automation systems; proficient in Java or Python; strong skills in HTTP/API testing and database (SQL) validation; familiar with message queue / scheduled job scenarios; CI/CD integration experience is a plus (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Alibaba Cloud DevOps / 云效). Personal Attributes: Strong sense of ownership and fast learning; meticulous and rigorous in test design and troubleshooting; strong problem-localization skills — read logs, trace state transitions across microservices, and distinguish environment, data, and code issues. Preferred: Experience building automation frameworks or smoke-test tooling from 0 to 1; performance testing experience (e.g., JMeter); familiarity with Redis, OpenFeign call chains, and SFTP/file-based testing; ability to build small internal test tools when needed. Node.js experience is a plus, not required. The Payoneer Ways of Working Act as our customer’s partner on the inside Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further. Do it. Own it. Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do. Continuously improve Always striving for a higher standard than our last. Build each other up Helping each other grow, as professionals and people. If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.