Senior Test Automation Engineer / SDET
Cyclops provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure exclusively for payments companies.
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About Cyclops
Cyclops is a payments infrastructure company offering stablecoin and fiat settlement, crypto acceptance, payouts, treasury management, virtual accounts, custody, compliance, liquidity, FX conversion, and wallet infrastructure. Its API-based platform is designed for PSPs, payment networks, orchestrators, gateways, acquirers, PayFacs, and ISOs, supporting operations across more than 150 countries and 400+ assets.
Skills
About the Role
Build test infrastructure for a crypto payment platform, including vendor mocks, simulators, contract tests, test data tooling, CI pipelines, reliable test suites, and production-adjacent checks. Create reusable testing frameworks, eliminate flaky tests, coach engineers on effective testing, and support custody, AML, screening, and stablecoin settlement systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years as a software engineer with substantial test-infrastructure ownership.
- Strong TypeScript skills.
- Experience building test frameworks and harnesses from scratch.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright or a modern automation framework.
- Experience designing CI/CD test stages with parallelization and selective test execution.
- API testing and mocking or stubbing of third-party services.
- Daily use of AI coding tools and critical review of AI-generated code.
- Ability to build working knowledge of crypto and stablecoin payment flows on the job.
- High agency and independent prioritization.
- Strong written and verbal English communication.
- Understanding of idempotency, reconciliation, and state machines.
- Experience with contract testing tooling such as Pact.
- Performance and load testing experience.
- Experience in a regulated environment.
- Experience with TestRail or similar test management tooling.
Responsibilities
- Design and build stateful mocks and simulators for third-party vendor APIs.
- Implement contract tests against real vendor sandboxes.
- Build test data and environment tooling.
- Own and optimize CI test pipelines, integration suites, parallelization, and test execution.
- Eliminate flaky tests through quarantine, statistics, and root-cause analysis.
- Create test-writing scaffolding, helper libraries, fixtures, and object builders.
- Document test patterns for AI-assisted test generation.
- Coach engineers on writing effective tests through reviews and pairing.
- Build post-deploy smoke tests and synthetic transactions.
- Automate verification before traffic switches to a service.
Benefits
- Flexibility to determine how and when work is delivered
- Company-issued laptop
- Technology accessories
- Annual in-person full-team meetup