Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

QA Engineer – AML (Anti-Money Laundering) Testing / Payments / Banking / FinTech

Location: Toronto, Canada

Employment Type: 1 year contract

Experience: 8+ Years

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced QA Engineer with strong hands-on experience in AML (Anti-Money Laundering) testing and a background in Payments, Banking, or FinTech . The ideal candidate will have experience testing financial applications, transaction monitoring systems, AML workflows, and regulatory/compliance-related functionality.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts for AML and financial applications.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing .
• Validate AML transaction monitoring, customer screening, alert generation, case management, and investigation workflows.
• Test AML rules, scenarios, thresholds, alerts, and transaction-monitoring workflows .
• Validate data flow across upstream and downstream systems and ensure transaction data is accurately processed.
• Perform API testing and database validation using SQL.
• Analyze requirements and prepare comprehensive test scenarios covering positive, negative, and edge cases.
• Identify, document, track, and retest defects using tools such as Jira or similar platforms.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, Compliance/AML teams, and other stakeholders.
• Support UAT, production validation, and release activities.
• Ensure testing aligns with applicable financial services and compliance requirements.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance / Testing .
• Hands-on experience with AML / Anti-Money Laundering testing .
• Experience working with at least one of the following domains:
• Payments
• Banking
• FinTech
• Strong understanding of AML transaction monitoring and compliance workflows .
• Experience testing financial transactions, payment processing, or banking applications.
• Strong knowledge of STLC, test planning, test execution, defect management, and QA processes .
• Hands-on experience with API testing using Postman, REST Assured, or similar tools.
• Experience with Jira, ALM, Azure DevOps, or similar defect/test management tools.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies .
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.