Application Architect, QA

Description

At the company, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with the company gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

Lead the design and advancement of enterprise Quality Engineering (QE) architecture, automation frameworks, and testing strategy across complex applications and distributed systems. Partner with engineering and architecture teams to embed quality, automation, performance, and resiliency throughout the SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise QA/QE architecture, strategy, standards, and roadmaps .
• Design scalable test automation frameworks across applications, APIs, and integrations.
• Develop testing strategies for functional, integration, regression, E2E, performance, and resiliency testing .
• Embed automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines .
• Review technical designs for testability, reliability, performance, and scalability .
• Drive quality engineering across microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and external integrations .
• Partner with developers and architects to embed quality throughout the SDLC .
• Evaluate and implement emerging automation and AI-assisted testing technologies .
• Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• At least 3 years of experience with the concepts, philosophies and tools behind the design of applications, information and underlying information technologies
• At least 8 years of experience with developing and implementing applications
• Required Skills
• Quality Engineering, test automation, or QA architecture experience.
• Experience defining enterprise QA/QE strategy, architecture, standards, and roadmaps .
• Expertise in API, integration, regression, E2E, performance, and automated testing .
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, and release validation .
• Experience testing microservices, REST APIs, distributed/event-driven systems, and high-volume applications .
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Appium, REST Assured, Karate, JMeter, Gatling, or k6 .
• Programming/scripting experience with Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python .
• Strong technical leadership and architecture skills ; payments/FinTech and AI-assisted testing experience preferred.

Conditions

This role requires working from a the company location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants .

Benefits

• Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
• Review our full benefits available by employment status here .