Software QA Engineer, Senior

Performance QA Engineer

Ready to take your career global?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Performance QA Engineer to join our ever-evolving technology team and help shape the future of global commerce.

What you’ll own

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap of our shared performance testing platform, ensuring scalability, stability and reliability across multiple business teams and POS branches.
• Design, build and maintain reusable performance testing frameworks and components using Gatling/Locust, Scala/Python, Docker and AWS, including simulations, test utilities, cloud modules and reporting solutions.
• Design and execute performance testing strategies for high-load, distributed and cloud-hosted systems, including iOS and Android applications, validating volume, throughput, availability and key mobile performance metrics.
• Build and enhance CI/CD and test orchestration pipelines using Jenkins, Groovy and related technologies, while continuously improving test data setup, environment provisioning and results analysis.
• Provide technical guidance to Automation Engineers, establish framework standards and best practices, troubleshoot complex performance issues and drive root-cause analysis and remediation.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally with hands-on experience in performance or load testing.
• Strong programming experience in Python, combined with experience in Scala or the ability to quickly work across both languages.
• Hands-on experience testing REST APIs and distributed cloud-hosted systems, with practical experience using AWS or another major cloud platform and Docker.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins or TeamCity, including exposure to Groovy pipeline scripting.
• Experience designing and executing performance test strategies for iOS and Android applications, with a solid understanding of key mobile performance metrics.

It’s a bonus if you have

• Experience building or maintaining a shared testing framework or engineering platform used by multiple teams, particularly with tools such as Gatling or Locust.
• Experience with observability and analytics tools such as Kibana or Grafana, including analysis across load, stress, spike, soak and endurance testing.
• Experience working with POS, retail or enterprise-scale distributed systems, along with experience mentoring or providing technical leadership to other engineers.

About the team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections, it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative, always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. Apply now to take your career global.

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About Us

At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone. And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises.

Our team of 27,000 experts is dedicated to your success. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you.

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EEOC Statement:

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