End-to-end Test Engineer

Ford Ford · Auto · United States · Enterprise Technology

Ford Credit is seeking an End-to-End Test Engineer/SDET to join their Enterprise Testing team. The role involves acting as a technical lead between UI clients, partner platforms, and backend infrastructure to ensure seamless integration and functionality across lending platforms. Responsibilities include cross-functional partnership, journey validation, driving quality initiatives, full-stack analysis, test automation (UI and API), system integration validation, CI/CD pipeline integration, and data migration testing. The role requires strong programming in Java, expertise in UI automation (Playwright) and API testing, understanding of system architecture, CI/CD experience, and FinTech experience, specifically with the loan lifecycle.

What you'd actually do

  1. Cross-Functional Partnership: Actively partner with Business, Architecture, Product, Design, and Software Engineering teams to align testing activities with business acceptance criteria and architectural realities.
  2. Journey Validation: Participate in and help facilitate mandatory "Cross-Functional Journey Review & Sign-Off" ceremonies to attest that all business-critical paths, edge cases, and transitional states are documented and tested.
  3. Drive Quality Initiatives: Take a proactive, self-driven approach to identifying gaps in test coverage. Drive E2E quality initiatives, ensuring the testing strategy shifts left and adheres to the Testing Pyramid.
  4. Full-Stack Analysis: Analyze business requirements to identify and map end-to-end user journeys (e.g., the complete Loan Origination flow) from the WebUI, through the Orchestration layer, down to backend dependencies.
  5. Test Automation: Design, build, and refactor scalable automated tests for both UI and API-based E2E scenarios using Playwright. Create reusable libraries to ensure zero code duplication.

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • Gradle
  • Maven
  • Playwright
  • Postman
  • Hoppscotch
  • Cucumber/Gherkin
  • GraphQL
  • GCP
  • GitHub
  • CloudBuild
  • functional testing
  • integration testing
  • E2E testing
  • regression testing
  • SIT
  • UAT
  • PreProd
  • Loan Lifecycle (Originations and Receivables)
  • API contract validation
  • written communication
  • verbal communication
  • debugging
  • analytical skills

Nice to have

  • FiServ banking services
  • DNA
  • Creative Digital
  • enterprise testing tools
  • test management tools
  • Jira
  • Xray
  • Confluence
  • cloud execution grids
  • LambdaTest
  • Contract Testing tools
  • PACTFlow
  • Test Data Management tools
  • Tonic.ai
  • Masking Engines
  • Alfa Systems
  • RouteOne
  • FiServ products

What the JD emphasized

  • analytical
  • End-to-End (E2E) Test Engineer
  • technical lead
  • complex lending platforms
  • mapping out and dissecting intricate processes
  • exceptional communicator
  • proactively drive quality initiatives
  • figure out exactly how systems communicate under the hood
  • Core Engineering
  • Expert-level knowledge
  • Deep understanding
  • Hands-on experience
  • Strong understanding
  • FinTech Experience
  • Experience in Financial Services
  • Contract Testing
  • Knowledge of API contract validation methodologies
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Self-Driven
  • Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and proactiveness
  • Problem Solving
  • Exceptional debugging and analytical skills