Quality Engineering Architect – Middleware Quality Engineer

PNC

Quality Assurance Architect for PNC developing middleware testing strategies across Payments & Treasury ecosystem. Designing, building, and executing testing strategies for payment processing and middleware services.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeAtlanta • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheKafkaRuby on RailsSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Collaborating with QE leads and peers to continuously improve testing processes and share knowledge across the team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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, MuleSoft, 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
dental and vision options
employee and spouse/child life insurance
short and long-term disability protection
401(k) with PNC match
pension and stock purchase plans
dependent care reimbursement account
back-up child/elder care
adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
a robust wellness program with financial incentives
maternity and/or parental leave
up to 11 paid holidays each year
9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service

ATS Keywords

✓ Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

test automationmiddleware technologiesAPI testingmessage validationservice virtualizationcontract testingtest data managementperformance testingroot cause analysisquality engineering

Soft Skills

analytical skillsstrong communication skillscollaborationcontinuous improvement