Senior Payments QA Engineer — AI-Driven Testing

Verygoodsecurity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

VGS is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Payments Quality, to serve as a key technical practitioner and quality champion on our Payments Engineering team.

You will set and enforce world‑class quality standards across core payment systems and build AI‑assisted strategies for automated regression and high‑concurrency testing. You will collaborate with feature teams, tech leads, and product management to ensure zero downtime, flawless accuracy, and scalable, secure payments infrastructure,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience focusing on quality engineering, test automation framework design, and performance testing for complex, high-throughput distributed systems.
• Deep hands-on experience building automated test suites in Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript, with strong REST API testing and microservices validation.
• Experience designing and running performance, stress, and load tests at scale using tools like JMeter, Locust, Gatling, or k6.

Responsibilities

• Architect and embed quality benchmarks across Payments Acceptance, integrating automated guardrails into pipelines.
• Drive high-concurrency load, stress, and latency testing to ensure platform reliability during peak periods.
• Pioneer AI‑native software engineering focused on quality, integrating AI-assisted tools into test creation and data generation.
• Implement telemetry and observability for test environments using Prometheus and Grafana to prevent incidents.
• Collaborate with product teams to create automated testing Golden Paths and mentor engineers on quality practices.

Skills

Quality engineering

Test automation

Performance testing

CI/CD

Observability

Mentorship

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript

REST API testing

JMeter

Locust

Grafana

Prometheus

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

VGS is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer, Payments Quality, to serve as a key technical practitioner and quality champion on our Payments Engineering team.

You will set and enforce world‑class quality standards across core payment systems and build AI‑assisted strategies for automated regression and high‑concurrency testing. You will collaborate with feature teams, tech leads, and product management to ensure zero downtime, flawless accuracy, and scalable, secure payments infrastructure,