Quality Engineering Architect – Middleware Quality Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and execute middleware test strategies across the payments ecosystem — covering message brokers, integration platforms, APIs, middleware services, and payment processing flows.
• Build and maintain test automation for middleware components, including message validation, payload transformation, routing logic, and downstream integration points.
• Develop and execute test cases for middleware specific scenarios, including message flow validation, error handling, failover/resilience, and performance under load.
• Ensure test coverage across payment rails — including wire (Fedwire, CHIPS), SWIFT (MT and ISO 20022 / MX), ACH, and real time payment networks.
• Partner with Development and Platform teams to validate middleware changes — including upgrades, patches, and vulnerability remediations — before production deployment.
• Support test data and test environment readiness for middleware layers, ensuring availability and consistency across environments.
• Analyze middleware defect trends and production incidents — contributing to root cause analysis and recommending preventive measures.
• Provide quality sign off on middleware components across feature, tech only, and content releases.
• Contribute to QE standards and best practices for middleware testing techniques, tools, and domain specific approaches within the payments ecosystem.
• Collaborate with QE leads and peers to continuously improve testing processes and share knowledge across the team.

• 10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, or Software Engineering with hands on exposure to middleware technologies.
• Working knowledge of middleware platforms — IBM MQ, Mule Soft, Apache Kafka, TIBCO, web Methods, or similar integration/messaging technologies.
• Payments domain familiarity — experience with payment processing systems, wire transfers, SWIFT messaging (MT/MX), ACH, real time payments, or treasury platforms.
• Understanding of message formats and standards — ISO 20022, SWIFT, NACHA, XML, JSON, and EDI.
• Hands on experience building test automation for middleware and integration layers — API testing, message validation, service virtualization, and contract testing.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and the role of middleware testing within continuous integration and delivery workflows.
• Experience with test data management in complex, multi system environments.
• Analytical skills — ability to identify patterns in defect data and quality metrics to support continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills — ability to articulate technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership.