Senior Test Automation Engineer / SDET
Cyclops provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure exclusively for payments companies. Its platform supports settlement, payins, payouts, treasury management, and custom payment solutions through a unified integration.
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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.
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About the Role
You build the 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. You create reusable testing frameworks, eliminate flaky tests, coach engineers on effective testing, and support testing across 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 ability to review AI-generated code critically
- Ability to build a working understanding of crypto and stablecoin payment flows on the job
- High agency and independent prioritization
- Written and verbal communication in English
- 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 the CI test pipeline and optimize feedback, 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
