Lead Quality Engineer - Payment Tech, AI-Driven Testing

Balance Recruitment and Balance Consulting; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Balance Recruitment and Balance Consulting seeks a Lead Quality Engineer to drive QA across a high-scale payment gateway built on Java microservices. You will define test strategy, lead execution, and ensure PCI/PII compliance while guiding legacy and modern platforms.

The role emphasizes API security, performance testing, and AI-assisted testing methods within a fast-paced agile environment. 12-month contract in Sydney, Australia, with close collaboration across product, engineering, and SRE

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of hands-on software quality engineering experience with leadership exposure.
• Deep expertise in microservices testing strategies including consumer contract testing.
• Strong experience with API security testing frameworks and OWASP API Top 10.
• Proven track record in performance testing design, execution, and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end QA for Java 17 and Spring Boot microservices handling payment flows.
• Design and maintain test suites for functional, integration, regression, and non-functional tests.
• Build API-level tests focusing on security, throughput, and PCI/PII compliance.
• Develop performance, load, soak, and spike tests to target high availability.
• Integrate test automation into CI/CD with quality gates on merges.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and SREs on quality objectives.
• Review code for testability and observability; set high quality standards.

Skills

Leadership

Quality engineering

Java

Spring Boot

API testing

Contract testing (Pact)

Performance testing

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

Git

AI-assisted testing

Legacy systems testing

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

JUnit 5

Karate

REST Assured

Pact

Gatling

k6

Scala load scripts

Job description

Balance Recruitment and Balance Consulting seeks a Lead Quality Engineer to drive QA across a high-scale payment gateway built on Java microservices. You will define test strategy, lead execution, and ensure PCI/PII compliance while guiding legacy and modern platforms.

The role emphasizes API security, performance testing, and AI-assisted testing methods within a fast-paced agile environment. 12-month contract in Sydney, Australia, with close collaboration across product, engineering, and SRE