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Quality Engineering Architect – Middleware Quality Engineer
PNCQuality Assurance Architect for PNC developing middleware testing strategies across Payments & Treasury ecosystem. Designing, building, and executing testing strategies for payment processing and middleware services.
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Hard Skills
test automationmiddleware technologiesAPI testingmessage validationservice virtualizationcontract testingtest data managementperformance testingroot cause analysisquality engineering
Soft Skills
analytical skillsstrong communication skillscollaborationcontinuous improvement
Tools & Technologies
IBM MQMuleSoftApache KafkaTIBCOwebMethodsCI/CD pipelinesmiddleware servicesintegration platformspayment processing systemstest environments
Industry Keywords
payments ecosystemSWIFTISO 20022ACHreal time paymentswire transfersNACHAXMLJSONEDI
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesApacheKafkaRuby 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