2 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the quality strategy for Payments Acceptance and embed automated end-to-end validation and quality gates into engineering pipelines.
- Design and execute high-concurrency load, stress, performance, and latency testing for payment systems at extreme transaction volumes.
- Build automated test suites, synthetic data generation workflows, AI-assisted edge-case analysis, and high-performance emulators for external systems and partner integrations.
- Implement Prometheus- and Grafana-based telemetry and test environments to monitor system behavior under load and prevent incidents.
- Partner with feature teams to create automated testing golden paths and mentor engineers on quality engineering practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience focused on quality engineering, test automation framework design, and performance testing for complex, high-throughput distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience building automated test suites with Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript and validating REST APIs and microservices.
- Experience designing and running performance, stress, and load tests at scale using JMeter, Locust, Gatling, or k6.
- Experience embedding automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and GitOps in Docker and Kubernetes/EKS environments on AWS.
- Experience testing event-driven architectures using Kafka and SQS and validating relational or NoSQL databases for consistency and transactional integrity under load.
- Preferred qualifications include tokenization, payment processing, security product, 3DS, Network Tokens, Account Updater, payment gateway, AI developer tooling, LLM-generated test automation, synthetic test data, PCI-DSS, SOC2, and cloud security experience, plus a BA/BS degree.
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About VGS
VGS builds a payment data security and tokenization platform for merchants, fintechs, and banks, enabling them to collect, store, and route sensitive card and PII data without retaining the raw values. Its suite includes a PCI-compliant data vault, payment tokenization, network tokens, account updater, payment orchestration, and card management APIs, delivered as a managed SaaS service. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.