Software Engineer in Test - Embedded Payments

Company Description

Xplor Technologies powers the experiences at the heart of everyday life. Through modern vertical software, embedded payments, and AI-powered capabilities, we help businesses in fitness, recreation, golf and club, field services, laundry, education, and other membership-based and service-based industries simplify operations, uncover insights, and elevate customer and member experiences. 

Job Description

About the opportunity

Join our Embedded Payments team as Sr. Software Engineer in Test in India to make a real impact every day. We say that because we know that every conversation we have, every code line we write and every interface we design is another opportunity for us to elevate everyday life experiences for our customers and the people and communities they serve.

Reporting into the Director of Software Engineering, you will join a QA team that already has strong Playwright-based automation in place and a clear engineering direction. You won’t be figuring it out alone — you’ll work within a structure led by a Sr. Software Engineer in Test who owns the framework architecture and sets the technical standard, with a Sr. QA Automation Engineer driving execution coverage alongside you.

This role is for someone with solid automation fundamentals who is ready to grow into test engineering. You’ll contribute to the framework, build out API and async test coverage, run load test scenarios, and collaborate closely with the Sr. SET to develop the skills and habits that define a strong test engineer.

Our platform is a cloud-native, event-driven payment orchestration system processing high transaction volumes across multiple clients and acquirers. Load testing and async workflow validation are not edge cases here — they are core to how we define done.

Our Tech Stack 

• Front-end:  React (CRA), Material-UI, JavaScript 
• Testing:  Jest, ESLint, Prettier, Storybook, Playwright, K6 
• Backend:  Node.js, AWS deployed on ECS, RDS, API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito 
• Messaging:  SQS, EventBridge, Lambda (event-driven async workflows) 
• DevOps:  Bitbucket Pipelines, Terraform 

Responsibilities 

• Work within the test framework established by the Sr. SET — contributing to Playwright suite maintenance, shared utilities, and test data scaffolding.
• Collaborate with the Sr. SET and Sr. QA Automation Engineer to expand coverage across UI, API, and integration test layers.
• Execute load and performance test scenarios against critical payment workflows using tooling such as k6, JMeter, or Artillery — and communicate findings clearly to the team.
• Build test coverage for async, event-driven workflows — validating SQS-driven processes, EventBridge patterns, and Lambda invocations where outcomes are eventual rather than immediate.
• Test for correctness in async financial operations: retry logic, idempotency, dead letter queue handling, and state consistency across distributed service boundaries.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline test integration — supporting quality gates and helping maintain signal quality across the pipeline.
• Expand API and contract test coverage across microservices, catching integration failures before they reach production.
• Review user stories for testability and raise quality concerns early in the development cycle.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar) as a daily part of your workflow — for test authoring, coverage gap analysis, and smarter triage.
• Contribute to quality observability: coverage trends, flakiness tracking, and test metrics.

Qualifications

What would make me a good candidate?

We are looking for curious and empathetic people. We also love to hear from people who are motivated by meaningful work, resonate with our core values, have a positive outlook, are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive working in an ever-evolving and complex environment. We are inspired by meeting big-picture thinkers and doers, people who can be both tactical and strategic, aim high and put people first in everything they do.

You'll need:

• 3–5 years of professional experience in test engineering or a related technical discipline; Bachelor’s in a technical discipline or equivalent.
• Solid programming fundamentals in Node.js and/or TypeScript — able to write clean, maintainable test code including utilities and helpers within an existing framework.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright — comfortable working inside an established test suite, extending coverage, and improving reliability.
• Exposure to load and performance testing — running scenarios with tooling like k6, JMeter, or Artillery and interpreting results.
• Familiarity with async, event-driven testing concepts — understanding of eventual consistency, retry behavior, and idempotency as they apply to test design.
• Familiarity with AWS messaging primitives: SQS, EventBridge, Lambda — enough to understand how async workflows behave and where they can fail.
• Experience with API testing across RESTful services using Postman or equivalent tooling.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipeline integration and automated test execution (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Familiarity with AWS or comparable cloud platforms and how distributed services interact.
• Experience with test management tooling (Jira, XRay, Zephyr, or similar).
• Demonstrated habit of using AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar) as part of daily engineering work.
• Comfortable working in agile environments and contributing as a technical peer.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts (Terraform) is a plus.
• Clear communicator who can articulate quality risk to engineers and product stakeholders.

Additional Information

Values and Life at Xplor

Our five core values guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

• Find a better way
• Do the right thing
• Say it straight
• Win together
• Own the outcome

If these values sound like you, and describe people you want to work with, you will thrive at Xplor.

As an Xplorer, you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits are:

• Paid Parental Leave benefit programs
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

Ready to apply?

To start your application, please submit your resume, and we will be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards (LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, etc) only. Please don't send your application via email. They will not be forwarded. 

More about us 

More than 130,000 businesses in 72+ countries rely on Xplor to run their day and get paid, processing over $47 billion in payments annually. Our connected ecosystem helps operators spend less time managing complexity and more time delivering the experiences that matter most. 

Xplor is backed by world-class investors Advent International, Battery Ventures, and Silver Lake. 

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

To learn more about us and our products, please visit xplor.com/careers/. 

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process xplor.com/recruitment-faqs/.

EEO and Artificial Intelligence

We believe in transparent hiring. We use an applicant tracking system that includes artificial intelligence enabled features to assist with the screening and assessment of job applications, such as candidate scoring or ranking. These tools support our recruitment process, but all hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team following human review. We do not rely on artificial intelligence to make final hiring decisions. Find our Candidate AI Usage guidelines here.

Xplor is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.

We make it a priority to respond to every applicant.