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title: 'Sr. SDET at Netspend'
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# Sr. SDET at Netspend

- **Company:** Netspend
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/netspend-careers-page/6c3107c6-f3bc-4d71-8847-88d5f52b5d30

## Job description

About the Company: Netspend Corporation is a global, vertically-integrated financial services and technology company dedicated to the delivery of innovative financial empowerment solutions to consumers worldwide. Netspend's financial products and services span prepaid, debit, cross-border payments, and loyalty solutions for consumers and enterprise partners.

Netspend provides prepaid and debit account solutions that connect customers with secure, convenient access to global payment networks so they can manage their money and make everyday purchases. With a nationwide U.S. retail network, customers can purchase and reload Netspend products at 130,000 reload points and over 100,000 distributing locations.

Since our founding in 1999 by industry pioneers, Netspend products have processed billions of dollars in transaction volume and served millions of customers worldwide. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas with employees worldwide.

## About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to drive quality engineering, test automation, and reliability across a fintech technology ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have strong programming expertise, hands-on experience building scalable automation frameworks, and a deep understanding of API-driven, distributed, and cloud-native systems. You will work closely with development, DevOps, and product teams to ensure the quality, security, performance, and reliability of financial applications, payment workflows, and transaction-processing systems.

## Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reusable test automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Develop automated test solutions using C#/.NET, Java, Python, or other suitable programming languages.
- Build and maintain automated test suites for REST APIs, microservices, GraphQL, databases, and asynchronous workflows.
- Validate financial transaction workflows, payment processing, transaction status updates, data integrity, and error-handling scenarios.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and reliable releases.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, performance, scalability, and reliability testing.
- Design and execute load and stress tests to evaluate system behaviour under peak transaction volumes.
- Investigate and troubleshoot complex defects across distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
- Collaborate with developers, architects, product managers, and DevOps teams to define test strategies and quality standards.
- Develop reusable automation libraries, test utilities, service mocks, and test data management solutions.
- Work with containerised applications and Kubernetes-based environments to validate service reliability and deployment quality.
- Monitor test execution results, analyse failures, and provide actionable insights through test reports and quality metrics.
- Test security-sensitive workflows, access controls, data validation, and negative scenarios.
- Mentor junior SDETs and contribute to automation best practices, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Own quality engineering activities from test planning and design through execution and release validation.

Required Skills

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field with 8+ years of experience
- 8+ years of experience in software testing, test automation, and quality engineering, including substantial hands-on automation development.
- Must have strong coding experience of Java/ groovy, Selenium and Database(relational) Unit Testing framework and performance testing.
- Hands on experience in building testing framework(s) BDD Cucumber/TestNG
- Must have hands on experience in Frontend automation using Selenium/appium or any other tool
- Must have hands-on experience in Web Services Automation using Java/groovy.
- Must have hands-on experience in Database testing. Well versed with writing complex SQL.
- Must have knowledge of any build tool Gradle/Maven/ANT etc.
- Must have good knowledge of CI/CD on Jenkins/ Gitlab
- Experience with Agile Methodologies, Tools (JIRA, Confluence).
- Must have hands-on knowledge in AI usage and AI tools.
- Must have exposure to design custom automation framework
- Must have exposure in Continuous Integration using Bamboo/Jenkins
- Must have exposure of Agile Methodology
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven workflows.
- Good to have knowledge in performance & Security testing
- Exposure of stored procedure and PL/SQL
- Working knowledge of Unix commands
- Good to have exposure in Mobile Automation using Appium/browserstack.
- Exposure of monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace etc.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and analytical skills; attention to detail, thoroughness and strong ownership of work.
- Strong expertise in API automation and REST API testing; familiarity with GraphQL is an advantage.
- Experience in performance and scalability testing, including load generation, bottleneck identification, and system behaviour analysis.
- Proficiency with Git-based workflows, debugging, troubleshooting, and code reviews.
- Strong ownership mindset and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced engineering environment.

## Preferred Qualification

- Experience in fintech, payments, digital banking, prepaid cards, or other financial technology platforms.
- Familiarity with payment processing workflows, transaction lifecycle management, reconciliation, and financial data validation.
- Knowledge of security testing principles, OWASP guidelines, authentication, authorisation, and secure API testing.
- Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or k6.
- Familiarity with service virtualisation and mocking tools such as WireMock.
- Experience with Helm, service mesh technologies, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
- Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
- Experience with test reporting, quality metrics, and automation coverage analysis.

## What We’re Looking For

- A quality-focused engineer who builds robust automation solutions rather than relying solely on manual testing.
- A proactive problem-solver who identifies risks early and improves product reliability through effective test strategies.
- An engineering professional who can troubleshoot complex technical issues across services and infrastructure.
- Someone who values clean code, reusable frameworks, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Note: This position is based out of Noida, Uttar Pradesh (India). Request candidates based out of India to apply.

## About Netspend

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Netspend provides prepaid debit card and digital banking solutions, focusing on financial inclusion for underserved consumers and BaaS partnerships.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Ouro Global, Inc., a privately held fintech holding company)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA
- **Founded**: 1999
- **Founders**: Not individually listed in public sources; original founders returned to lead Ouro in 2023

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial Services (Prepaid Debit, Digital Banking, Banking-as-a-Service)
- Target customers: B2C (underbanked consumers) and B2B (enterprise partners for co-branded and white-label payment solutions)
- Mission or purpose: "Deliver financial empowerment solutions globally" through innovation and inclusion, expanding access to financial tools

## Products & Services
- **Netspend Prepaid Debit Cards**: Reloadable prepaid cards available online, via mobile apps, and at over 100,000 retail locations (including convenience stores, grocers, pharmacies). Supports direct deposit, savings, and mobile check deposit.
- **Netspend Paycard**: Employer-sponsored payroll card solutions for companies and tips distribution.
- **Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS)**: White-label and co-branded debit/prepaid programs for lifestyle, sports, entertainment, and consumer brands via an open technology platform.
- **Netspend Savings Account**: High-yield savings option linked to the prepaid account (FDIC-insured).
- **Cross-Border Payments**: Money movement services (mentioned under Ouro).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company). Was acquired by TSYS in 2013 for $1.4B; later part of Global Payments; now independent under Ouro.
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $580M (LinkedIn estimate, likely pre-2023) – not publicly confirmed.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent Ouro is privately backed; historical investors include IA Capital Group. Key partners: Pathward (issuer bank), Visa, and 130,000+ reload points nationwide.
- **Growth Signals**: Rebranding to Ouro in 2023, expansion into new verticals (cross-border, BaaS), active hiring (17 open roles at Netspend as of mid-2026), headcount growth of +6.8% monthly per LinkedIn (though Ouro parent shows decline). Fortune coverage of founders’ comeback plan to "make it the leader in the industry."

## Competitive Advantages
- **National retail network**: Over 100,000 distribution and 130,000 reload points – a hard-to-replicate physical footprint.
- **Two decades of trust**: Serving millions of consumers since 1999, with billions in transaction volume processed.
- **BaaS platform**: Open technology stack enables rapid integration for large brands (co-branded/white label).
- **Consumer focus**: Deep understanding of underbanked user base, driving product innovation for financial inclusion.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Growing international footprint (offices in India, Spain, Philippines, Australia, etc.).
- **New products**: Cross-border payments, digital account services, and enhanced loyalty solutions.
- **Partnerships**: Deepening co-branded relationships and BaaS deals with major consumer brands.
- **Technology modernization**: Investing in cloud, mobile, and data analytics (open roles in DevOps, Snowflake, mobile engineering).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "innovation, entrepreneurship, empowerment" with a focus on customer-centricity and operational excellence.
- **Work Policy**: On-site in Austin, TX (BuiltIn reports "OnSite Workspace") and also a significant office in Noida, India. Remote or hybrid options are not highlighted.
- **Perks**: Not detailed in search results; company provides standard benefits. Indeed work wellbeing score is "Below average" (67/100) based on 61 responses, with mixed reviews on culture and compensation (3.1/5 on Glassdoor equivalent).
- **Engineering culture**: Heavy technical hiring (Head of Architecture, Software Engineers, DevOps). Strong alumni pipelines from TSYS, Global Payments, Dell, Apple. Opportunity to work on large-scale payment processing and BaaS platforms.
- **Growth Opportunity**: The company is in a "rebirth" phase with founders back, strategic growth targets, and new product verticals – potentially high impact for early employees.

## Sources
1. [Ouro Careers page](https://www.ouro.com/careers)
2. [LinkedIn – Netspend](https://www.linkedin.com/company/netspend)
3. [Built In – Netspend](https://builtin.com/company/netspend)
4. [Indeed – NetSpend Careers](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Netspend)
5. [LinkedIn – Ouro](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ouroglobal)

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