# Sr. Software Engineer, Payments Quality

**Company**: VGS
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

VGS is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Payments Quality to join their Payments Engineering team. The successful candidate will serve as a key technical practitioner and quality champion, responsible for setting, building, and enforcing world-class quality standards across core payment systems.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of software engineering experience focusing on quality engineering, test automation framework design, and performance testing for complex, high-throughput distributed systems. They will be responsible for:

- Architecting and embedding quality benchmarks, building automated guardrails, and ensuring rigorous end-to-end validation happens automatically

- Driving performance and stress testing, architecting and executing high-concurrency load, stress, and latency testing

- Pioneering AI-native software engineering focused on quality, integrating AI-assisted developer tools and agentic workflows into test creation, synthetic data generation, and automated edge-case analysis

- Implementing robust telemetry and telemetry-driven test environments using tools like Prometheus and Grafana

- Partnering with feature teams to build "Golden Paths" for automated testing and mentoring team members on quality engineering best practices

The company offers a range of benefits, including modern tooling, ownership of outcomes, and mission-critical accountability.

## Skills

### Required
- quality engineering
- test automation framework design
- performance testing
- Java
- Python
- Go
- TypeScript
- REST API testing
- microservices validation
- JMeter
- Locust
- Gatling
- k6
- CI/CD
- Cloud-Native Toolchains
- GitHub Actions
- GitOps
- Docker
- Kubernetes/EKS
- AWS
- event-driven architectures
- Kafka
- SQS
- relational/NoSQL databases

### Nice to have
- tokenization
- payment processing
- security products
- 3DS
- Network Tokens
- Account Updater
- payment gateway integrations
- AI developer tools
- LLM-generated test automation pipelines
- synthetic test data generation
- PCI-DSS
- SOC2

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