Platform Development Engineer in Test

Pyramid Consulting, Inc is a leading Financial Industry, and they are seeking a Platform Development Engineer in Test. The role involves defining and leading the test automation strategy, establishing contract testing practices, and guiding teams in implementing quality engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the test automation strategy for the Acquisition Platform, aligning with product and platform goals
• Establish contract testing practices across PBC (Packaged Business Capability) producers and consumers to prevent breaking changes in distributed platform services
• Define service virtualization strategies for upstream and downstream dependencies to enable isolated testing when partner or internal systems are unavailable or under development
• Design and manage test data strategies including synthetic data generation, masking, and lifecycle management to meet financial services data sensitivity requirements
• Extend test coverage across platforms, browsers, devices, and responsive breakpoints to validate omnichannel delivery expectations
• Collaboration and Platform Alignment
• Partner closely with Product, Platform Engineering, Integration, Experience, and SRE leads to align quality expectations
• Influence platform designs to improve testability, observability, and reliability
• Guide teams in implementing shift‑left testing and continuous quality practices
• AI‑Assisted Quality Engineering
• Direct teams in using AI‑assisted development techniques to accelerate test creation and maintenance
• Ensure AI tools are leveraged to improve coverage, generate test scenarios, identify gaps, and reduce manual effort
• Apply responsible AI practices with attention to security, data exposure, and operational risk
• Implementation and Enablement
• Guide teams in building and operating automated test frameworks and pipelines
• Establish standards, patterns, and tooling for quality engineering across the platform
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Quality Governance and Measurement
• Embed shift left security testing into CI/CD pipelines including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and secrets detection
• Design test scenarios that verify regulatory and compliance requirements are met across acquisition workflows
• Define and track test effectiveness metrics including coverage ratios, defect escape rates, automation ROI, and trend analysis to continuously improve the quality program

Requirements:

• Test Automation Strategy & Framework Leadership
• AI-assisted testing and automation
• Contract Testing & Microservices Architecture- Pact, Spring Cloud Contract
• Test Data Management & Service Virtualization
• CI/CD, Security Testing & Quality Gates- SAST, DAST
• Cloud-Native & Non-Functional Testing
• Test automation frameworks for APIs, UI, and distributed systems
• Non‑functional testing including performance, resiliency, failover, and reliability validation
• AI‑assisted testing techniques and prompt‑driven automation
• CI/CD pipeline integration and automated quality gates
• Observability‑driven testing using logs, metrics, and traces
• Cloud‑native testing in containerized and event‑driven architectures
• Strong communication skills and product‑oriented mindset
• 7+ years of experience building or governing test data strategies in regulated environments
• Expertise with contract testing in distributed or microservices architectures
• Experience embedding security and accessibility testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Direct experience with Agile and product‑centric delivery models
• Experience guiding and mentoring engineers on quality practices
• Enterprise‑scale delivery experience with distributed teams
• Experience in financial services, insurance, or retirement services industry
• Experience with chaos engineering tools (e.g., AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin, LitmusChaos)
• Familiarity with BDD/TDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber, SpecFlow) to align test scenarios with business language
• Cloud experience across AWS services and modern DevOps toolchains
• Experience integrating testing with observability and SRE practices