Automation Lead

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New York, NY, USA
Hybrid
130K-185K Annually
Senior level
Software • Financial Services
The Role
The Automation Lead will design and enhance test automation frameworks, mentor team members, and ensure platform reliability in financial systems using Playwright and modern CI/CD practices.
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About PactFi

Private asset markets (PE, Private Credit, VC, Real Estate) have 10x to 9.8T in AUM over the past decade and are projected to grow to $17T in the next five years. However, digital infrastructure has not kept pace, with most of the market operating predominantly in error-prone, internal-only software solutions.

PactFi provides secure, end-to-end, operational infrastructure for managing complex private credit transactions. Our web-based application brings together all parties involved in such a transaction to more efficiently allocate capital, complete KYC, share documents, manage funds flow, and more. The platform is secured to a bank-grade standard, and we have received our SOC 2 Type 2 attestation.

PactFi was developed in close partnership with two of the industry's largest players, both of whom represent the top 3 players in the private credit space by both size (AUM) and deal activity.

Role Overview

We are seeking an Automation Lead to own and scale our end-to-end test automation strategy. This role is both hands-on technical and strategic, requiring deep expertise in Ply Responsibilities

Automation Strategy & Leadership

  • Own the design and evolution of the automated testing framework (primarily Playwright)

  • Establish best practices for E2E, integration, and regression testing

  • Drive test coverage across critical financial workflows (deal lifecycle, cash flows, reporting, etc.)

  • Mentor engineers and QA contributors; set standards for test quality and maintainability

Hands-On Engineering

  • Build and maintain robust Playwright test suites (TypeScript/JavaScript)

  • Develop reusable testing utilities, fixtures, and CI/CD integrations

  • Implement parallelization, test isolation, and flakiness mitigation strategies

  • Integrate tests into CI pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI)

Product & Domain Alignment

  • Translate complex financial workflows (e.g., loan servicing, covenant tracking, capital calls) into deterministic test cases

  • Validate data integrity across systems (APIs, databases, reporting layers)

  • Collaborate with product and domain experts to identify edge cases and risk scenarios

Quality & Reliability

  • Define SLAs for test reliability and pipeline performance

  • Monitor and improve test signal vs. noise

  • Introduce observability into testing (logs, traces, artifacts)

  • Lead incident retrospectives related to quality gaps

AI-Driven Testing & Development

  • Implement and scale AI-assisted test case generation from product requirements, user stories, and production data

  • Leverage LLM-based tools to generate, refactor, and maintain Playwright test suites

  • Build workflows for automated test creation, prioritization, and gap detection using AI

  • Evaluate and integrate tools for self-healing tests, intelligent selectors, and failure triaging

  • Partner with engineering to incorporate AI into broader development workflows (code generation, debugging, QA automation)

  • Establish guardrails and validation strategies to ensure correctness and determinism in AI-generated tests

Required Qualifications
  • 5+ years in QA automation, SDET, or software engineering roles

  • Deep expertise with Playwright (required) in production environments

  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript

  • Experience designing scalable test frameworks from scratch

  • Solid understanding of CI/CD systems and modern DevOps practices

  • Experience testing API-driven architecture and distributed systems

Domain Expertise

  • Prior experience in fintech, capital markets, or lending platforms

  • Familiarity with concepts such as:

    • Loan lifecycle & servicing

    • Private credit structures

    • Cash flow modeling & waterfalls

    • Financial reporting & reconciliations

Nice-to-Have
  • Experience with data validation pipelines (SQL, dbt, etc.)

  • Exposure to backend languages (Python, Java, or Go)

  • Experience with performance or load testing tools

  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)

What Success Looks Like
  • High-confidence releases with minimal regression risk

  • Stable, fast CI pipelines with meaningful test coverage

  • Clear alignment between product logic and automated validation

  • A scalable testing culture embedded across engineering

Why Join
  • Build foundational infrastructure in a fast-growing private credit fintech

  • Work directly with domain experts shaping modern capital markets tooling

  • High ownership in a Series A environment with strong growth trajectory

  • Competitive compensation + equity and a strong understanding of financial systems—particularly within private credit, lending, or capital markets workflows. You will define testing architecture, improve release confidence, and partner closely with engineering, product, and operations to ensure platform reliability in a high-stakes financial environment.

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary + equity.

  • Healthcare coverage.

  • 401k

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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
22 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Private asset markets (PE, Private Credit, VC, Real Estate) have 10x to 9.8T in AUM over the past decade, and are projected to grow to $17T in the next five years. The development of technology built to service such a massive market has not kept pace. Workflows are manual, systems are siloed, and data is static. Dealmaking (the core activity of private markets) is an inherently collaborative activity, yet the industry lacks infrastructure on which participants can work directly with each other. PactFi’s cloud application brings identity, workflow and data structure together within one platform to generate powerful process and capital efficiencies that changes the way people work and invest.

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