QA Automation & UAT Tester – Commercial Banking

Contract Length: 3 Months initially, with strong potential for extension
Location: Charlotte, NC
Work Arrangement: 100% onsite, 5 days per week initially; flexibility may be possible later based on performance
Contract Type: Contract
Interview: 30-minute Microsoft Teams interview
Anticipated Start Date: September 7, 2026

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced QA Automation & UAT Tester to support a large-scale testing transformation initiative within a Commercial Banking environment.

This role requires a combination of hands-on test automation expertise and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) experience. The ideal candidate will be comfortable developing and maintaining automated test solutions while also performing end-to-end UAT activities, test execution, defect management, and business validation.

The successful candidate will help bridge the gap between automation and UAT as the organization modernizes its testing practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and execute manual and automated test scripts.

• Identify opportunities to transition manual testing processes into automated solutions.

• Perform comprehensive UAT testing, including test planning, execution, validation, and defect tracking.

• Partner with business stakeholders to validate requirements and confirm expected outcomes.

• Translate business requirements into both manual and automated test cases.

• Execute manual and automated test cases across multiple applications and platforms.

• Support end-to-end testing throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Document test scenarios, test cases, defects, and test results.

• Collaborate with development, QA, and business teams to ensure high-quality releases.

• Manage defects, testing documentation, and test results.

• Contribute to testing transformation initiatives by improving automation coverage while maintaining strong UAT support.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA, software testing, or related experience.

• 3–4+ years of hands-on UAT testing experience within Commercial Banking.

• 2+ years of experience with modern test automation tools and frameworks.

• Strong experience developing and maintaining automated test scripts.

• Proven experience converting manual test scripts and processes into automated test solutions.

• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, test planning, test execution, defect management, and test reporting.

• Hands-on Tricentis Tosca experience.

• Tosca AS1 and AS2 certification.

• Experience executing UAT testing and supporting business validation activities.

• Ability to analyze business requirements and translate them into effective test cases.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Required Technology

• Tricentis Tosca

• Tosca AS1 / AS2

• ALM Octane

• Jira

• Automated testing frameworks and tools

Banking & Domain Experience

Required

• Commercial Banking experience

• Experience supporting business-facing UAT activities within a banking environment.

• Experience testing financial applications, processes, or platforms.

Preferred

• ATM application testing experience.

• Experience supporting banking transformation or modernization initiatives.

• Experience with commercial banking applications and workflows.

Data Management Analyst 4 – Payments Risk & Analytics

Location: Charlotte, NC
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week; onsite days are flexible
Contract Length: 6 Months
Potential Extension: Yes, likely
Start Date: August 24, 2026
Hours: 40 hours/week
Rate: $65-68/hr

Position Overview

We are seeking a Data Management Analyst 4 to support a Global Payments & Liquidity Analytics organization. This role will focus on business and data analytics related to wire payments, payment risk controls, data analysis, and reporting.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in business analytics and payments risk, along with advanced SQL skills and the ability to work with complex data formats including XML, delimited, and fixed-width files.

This position will partner closely with business, technology, product, and risk teams to analyze payment data, identify issues, develop reporting, and support risk and control activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze complex and multifaceted data management and business analytics challenges.

• Develop a deep understanding of wire payment data, payment initiation channels, and related business processes.

• Perform analysis comparing wire messages with instructions received through payment initiation channels.

• Analyze payment data to identify discrepancies, risks, trends, and potential control issues.

• Liaise with platform support teams representing payment initiation channels.

• Partner with Frontline Risk, business stakeholders, technology teams, and product SMEs.

• Lead discussions with wire product subject matter experts and application business owners regarding findings and resolution.

• Develop and maintain reporting supporting risk, control, audit, business, and executive teams.

• Build and support data pipelines, data transformations, and analytical reporting.

• Review and analyze complex datasets requiring evaluation of multiple business and technical factors.

• Apply analytical and problem-solving skills to resolve complex business and data issues.

• Ensure data analysis and reporting activities comply with applicable data security, governance, regulatory, and policy requirements.

• Work independently on complex initiatives while collaborating with stakeholders across the organization.

• Support strategic analytics and management reporting for payments and liquidity functions.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of business analytics experience, payments risk experience, or a combination of both.

• 4+ years of experience writing complex SQL code.

• Strong experience with Microsoft SQL Server and/or Hive.

• Experience parsing and analyzing:

  • XML data

  • Delimited data files

  • Fixed-width data files

• Proven analytical thinking and complex problem-solving skills.

• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify data inconsistencies and business risks.

• Experience developing data pipelines, data transformations, and reporting for business analysts and executives.

• Experience working with complex business and data-related problems.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payments, wires, payment risk, or financial services.

• Knowledge of payment products and services.

• Knowledge of wholesale banking.

• Experience supporting wire payment processes and initiation channels.

• Experience supporting risk controls, audit reporting, or financial crime-related processes.

• Experience consulting with business and technology partners on complex issues.

• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.

• Experience managing multiple complex initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong organizational and change management skills.

• Ability to work independently with minimal direction.

• Experience translating complex data findings into clear business recommendations.

Core Technical Skills

Must Have:

• Advanced / Complex SQL

• Microsoft SQL Server

• Hive

• XML

• Data Parsing

• Data Pipelines

• Data Transformation

• Business Analytics

• Reporting & Analytics

Preferred:

• Payments Analytics

• Wire Payments

• Payments Risk

• Wholesale Banking

• Risk & Controls

• Financial Services

• Data Governance

• Audit Reporting

Ab Initio Developer

Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid)
Duration: 24-Month Contract

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Ab Initio Developer to join the Home Lending Data & Insights team. This role focuses on designing, developing, and modernizing enterprise data pipelines across both legacy on-premises platforms and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate has strong expertise in ETL development, cloud data engineering, and enterprise-scale data modernization, with experience supporting highly available, production-grade data environments.

You will help migrate legacy Teradata and Ab Initio solutions to cloud-native architectures while ensuring data quality, operational excellence, security, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable batch and near real-time data pipelines using Ab Initio, Python, PySpark, PL/SQL, and SQL.
• Build and optimize Google BigQuery datasets, transformations, and data models using partitioning, clustering, and query optimization techniques.
• Support migration initiatives from Teradata and Ab Initio to Google Cloud Platform, including data validation, reconciliation, parallel processing, and production cutovers.
• Develop and maintain workflow orchestration using Autosys, while driving modernization to Google Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow).
• Implement metadata management, governance, and data discovery using Google Dataplex.
• Build and maintain enterprise data quality controls using Informatica Data Quality, including profiling, validation rules, exception handling, and quality monitoring.
• Monitor production pipelines, troubleshoot failures, perform root cause analysis, and implement continuous improvements to system reliability and performance.
• Apply secure data engineering practices including PII protection, data masking, access controls, retention policies, and audit documentation.
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Analysts, and Engineering teams to define technical solutions and deliver curated, trusted datasets.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including data dictionaries, reconciliation documents, operational runbooks, and technical specifications.
• Utilize AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Devin, or similar to improve engineering productivity while maintaining secure coding practices, code reviews, and testing standards.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers by promoting engineering best practices and scalable solution design.
• Analyze complex business requirements and translate them into robust ETL and data engineering solutions.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional Data Engineering experience.
• 4+ years of experience with PL/SQL and SQL, including complex query development, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle, Teradata, Python, and/or Google BigQuery.
• 4+ years of experience developing enterprise ETL solutions using Ab Initio, including graph development, Psets, and performance tuning.
• 3+ years of experience programming in Python with hands-on PySpark development.
• 3+ years of experience with ETL architecture, data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and data integration best practices.
• Experience building scalable batch and near real-time data processing solutions.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data governance, metadata management, and data lifecycle management.
• Must-have: Use AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Devin, or similar) to accelerate development while maintaining strong code review discipline, testing, and secure coding standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including:
  • BigQuery
  • Dataplex
  • Google Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow)
• Experience migrating enterprise data platforms from on-premises environments to cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with Informatica Data Quality (IDQ).
• Familiarity with Autosys scheduling and workload automation.
• Experience implementing secure data engineering practices for regulated environments.
• Experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Devin.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Financial services or mortgage/lending industry experience is a plus.

Technical Environment

• Languages: Python, PySpark, SQL, PL/SQL
• ETL: Ab Initio
• Databases: Oracle, Teradata, BigQuery
• Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataplex, Cloud Composer)
• Scheduling: Autosys, Apache Airflow (Cloud Composer)
• Data Quality: Informatica Data Quality
• Development Tools: GitHub Copilot, Devin, Git

 

Business Analyst 

Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid)
Duration: Contract

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst – Regulatory & Compliance to support strategic regulatory initiatives within the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) organization. This role is ideal for a highly analytical professional who excels at interpreting complex regulatory requirements, assessing business impacts, and translating them into actionable business and functional requirements.

This is a true Business Analyst position focused on business analysis, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory compliance—not project management. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who can work independently, ask insightful questions, and perform detailed analysis to uncover root causes and business impacts.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze new and evolving regulatory requirements and assess their impact across business, technology, legal, compliance, and operations teams.
• Partner with business stakeholders to gather, document, validate, and refine detailed business and functional requirements.
• Translate complex regulatory guidance into clear, actionable business processes and technology requirements.
• Support regulatory-driven initiatives by ensuring compliance objectives, business needs, and delivery timelines remain aligned.
• Perform business process analysis to identify regulatory impacts, operational risks, gaps, and dependencies.
• Support regulatory reporting initiatives through data analysis, documentation, and process improvements.
• Collaborate with Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) business partners, compliance teams, technology organizations, and operations to ensure successful implementation of regulatory changes.
• Produce high-quality business documentation including business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, gap analyses, and traceability matrices.
• Work within established service level agreements (SLAs) while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced regulatory environment.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, requirements workshops, and discussions to drive consensus and solution alignment.
• Provide analytical support throughout the project lifecycle, including testing support, issue resolution, and implementation activities.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Business Analyst experience within financial services, banking, or a highly regulated industry.
• Strong experience supporting regulatory and compliance initiatives, including U.S. and/or global regulatory programs.
• Experience with regulatory reporting, data analysis, and regulatory change management.
• Solid understanding of financial markets, banking operations, and Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) products and processes.
• Proven ability to assess the business impact of regulatory changes across multiple functional areas.
• Strong requirements gathering, documentation, and business process analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while effectively managing relationships with business and technology stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities with the capability to investigate complex business issues beyond surface-level analysis.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with experience presenting findings to diverse audiences.

Technical Skills

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite:
  • Excel
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
• Experience creating business documentation, process flows, requirements matrices, and analytical reports.
• Strong data analysis skills with the ability to interpret and validate regulatory reporting data.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) organizations.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks affecting financial institutions.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams across Compliance, Risk, Legal, Operations, and Technology.
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), requirements traceability, and implementation readiness.

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Required Qualifications

Experience

• 5+ years Project/Program Management experience
• Project and Program Management leadership
• Cross-functional stakeholder management
• Executive-level reporting and presentations
• Weekly stand-ups and operational reviews
• Portfolio and roadmap management
• Governance framework development
• Risk, issue, dependency, and escalation management
• RACI development
• Process mapping
• Operational excellence
• Systems implementation
• Project reporting and dashboards
• Organizational planning and execution
• Training and adoption of project management tools

Required Technology

• Notion (Super User)

Top 3 Skills

• Program / Project Management & Leadership
• Cross-functional Facilitation & Stakeholder Management
• Operational Excellence & Systems Implementation

Senior Project Manager – Capital Markets / Financial Services

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex, high-impact initiatives within a financial services environment. This role will support strategic projects across Capital Markets, Trading, Banking, and Risk functions, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to drive successful execution.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background managing complex projects in financial services, with demonstrated experience navigating matrixed organizations, regulatory-driven initiatives, and cross-functional teams. This individual must be highly adaptable, able to manage competing priorities, and comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.

The Senior Project Manager will serve as a key liaison between business partners, technology teams, and leadership, ensuring alignment on objectives, delivery milestones, risks, dependencies, and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex projects within financial services, including planning, execution, risk management, stakeholder communication, and delivery oversight.
• Partner with business and technology teams to define project objectives, scope, requirements, timelines, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Operate effectively within a matrixed organization, coordinating across multiple business units, functions, and technical teams.
• Facilitate project governance activities, including status reporting, executive updates, risk escalation, issue resolution, and decision tracking.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, resource plans, and communication strategies.
• Drive execution by influencing stakeholders, managing expectations, and ensuring accountability across project teams.
• Identify project risks and dependencies while developing mitigation strategies to maintain delivery commitments.
• Support regulatory and compliance-related initiatives, ensuring projects meet required standards and deadlines.
• Produce clear, insightful reporting and presentations for senior leadership using tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, OneNote, and Microsoft Project.
• Adapt quickly to changing business priorities and shifting project requirements while maintaining focus on outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of project management experience, preferably within financial services, banking, capital markets, or trading environments.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, business functions, and technology teams.
• Working knowledge of Capital Markets products and financial services trading environments.
• Ability to operate independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, governance practices, and delivery frameworks.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders, resolve conflicts, and drive execution across teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong executive presence.
• Experience working in a matrixed organization with cross-functional teams.
• Advanced proficiency with:
  • Microsoft Teams
  • SharePoint
  • OneNote
  • Microsoft Project
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing regulatory projects within financial services.
• Experience supporting Market Risk initiatives and/or Model Development programs.
• Familiarity with financial markets operations, trading workflows, and banking processes.
• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• Experience working with senior executives and preparing leadership-level reporting.