Functional QA Lead |Berkeley Heights, NJ| Contract

Job Title: Functional QA Lead

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ 5 days a week onsite

Experience: 8 12+ years

Domain: Credit Card Issuer Processing / Banking / Payments

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Functional QA Lead with strong credit card issuer processing domain knowledge and expertise in functional testing, test automation, and data reconciliation.

The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end quality assurance activities, develop comprehensive functional test strategies, drive automation initiatives, and ensure business correctness across complex credit card processing platforms.

Experience in legacy mainframe modernization, distributed architecture, and validation between legacy and modernized platforms is highly desirable and credit card issuer domain expertise, SQL/data analysis, and hands-on backend/API automation mandatory, while treating specific tools such as Flink, MongoDB flexible

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of QA experience, including functional QA leadership and automation.
• Strong hands-on experience in credit card issuer processing.
• Deep understanding of payments, billing, credit allocation, balances, interest, fees, and delinquency.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing functional test automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with automation technologies such as Java/Python, REST Assured, Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber/BDD, or equivalent frameworks.
• Strong API testing and automation experience.
• Advanced SQL skills for data validation, reconciliation, and defect investigation.
• Experience automating batch processing validation, backend workflows, and large-volume data comparisons.
• Experience with CI/CD integration using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Experience in test management and defect tracking using Jira, Xray, or equivalent tools.
• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and team leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in mainframe-to-distributed or cloud modernization programs.
• Knowledge of COBOL copybooks, JCL, flat files, and batch processing.
• Experience with event-driven systems, microservices, Kafka, or distributed processing.
• Experience automating source-to-target validation and reconciliation across heterogeneous systems.
• Familiarity with performance and volume testing considerations for large-scale transaction processing.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements applicable to credit card issuing.
• Exposure to AI-assisted test generation, intelligent regression selection, and automated defect analysis.