Principal Software Engineer in Test — Quality for Payments

19109 SPEEDPAY RD; Norcross (GA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ACI Worldwide seeks a Principal Software Engineer in Test to drive quality as a property of the entire delivery system. You will embed quality thinking across product, architecture, and engineering, defining clear acceptance criteria and coaching teams to build fast, deterministic tests.

This role emphasizes testing practices across teams rather than owning a single test suite, with a strong focus on trunk-based development and pipeline integration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on test automation and quality engineering.
• Proven track record of influencing testing practices across development teams.

Responsibilities

• Define standards, patterns, and shared tooling for end‑to‑end, journey, component, integration, and API contract tests.

Skills

Test automation

Playwright

Gherkin

CI/CD

TypeScript/JavaScript

JUnit/NUnit

Code review

Three-amigos

TDD

Git

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

CircleCI

WireMock

MockServer

Job description

ACI Worldwide seeks a Principal Software Engineer in Test to drive quality as a property of the entire delivery system. You will embed quality thinking across product, architecture, and engineering, defining clear acceptance criteria and coaching teams to build fast, deterministic tests.

This role emphasizes testing practices across teams rather than owning a single test suite, with a strong focus on trunk-based development and pipeline integration.