Payments Solutions Architect - Testlio

About the job

Testlio's fully managed crowdsourced testing platform, powered by our proprietary intelligence technology - LeoCore™, integrates expert, on-demand testers directly into your release process. Ship faster and more confidently with global coverage across 600,000+ devices, 800+ payment methods, 150+ countries, and 100+ languages.

An exciting growth frontier for Testlio is digital payments and financial transactions. We are hiring a visionary and hands-on Payments Solutions Architect to lead the intersection of digital financial transactions and quality engineering. This role brings together deep practitioner expertise and strategic business leadership. You will define, package, and oversee the quality of our payments testing offerings—establishing the catalog, methodology, staffing, and pricing—while diving deep into the technical architecture of complex transaction systems to solve quality engineering roadblocks.

Why you will love this job

• Blend Strategy with Technical Depth: Drive the overarching vision and commercial packaging of our Payments offerings while staying grounded in the technical architecture and delivery methodologies.
• Shape the future of Payments Testing: Be at the forefront of innovation, building and evangelizing solutions that drive transaction integrity and quality across enterprise-level, global clients.
• Partner with clients to solve complex challenges: Work directly with clients on deep technical integrations and architectural setups to shape testing strategies that deliver measurable value.
• Make a tangible impact: Your work directly influences the success of our clients and the quality of their digital products.
• Drive company influence: Help build the pipeline, join sales calls, and guide delivery on Payments opportunities, bringing your expertise to high-impact business decisions.

What would your day look like?

Strategic & Commercial Responsibilities

• Vision Activation & Marketing: Imagine, drive, evangelize, and activate a viewpoint on the future of Payments Testing through white papers, articles, posts, speeches, and webinars.
• Ecosystem & Alliances Support: Collaborate with leadership and external software partners to identify and execute joint GTM offerings with payments and commerce consultancies.
• Sales Collaboration: Engage with enterprise-class prospects in partnership with Testlio Sales to provide guidance on effective Payments Testing strategies, tactics, and ROI.
• Offering Lifecycle Management: Launch, evolve, and refine payments services based on market and competitive intelligence.

Collaboration on Hands-on Delivery

• Architectural Design: Dive deep into client digital transaction architectures to design bespoke, highly technical quality engineering methodologies for agentic payments, mobile payments, wallets, and POS systems.
• Delivery Expertise: Act as an escalation point and subject-matter expert for Delivery, stepping in hands-on from scoping to test execution review on complex payments engagements.
• Technical Problem Solving: Solve technical roadblocks in payments quality engineering, ensuring transaction integrity, security, and compliance across global regions.
• Client Up-Leveling: Help Testlio Services teams and top clients see, design, and implement new technical approaches.

What do you need to succeed?

Technical Skills

• Deep Payments Experience: 10+ years of deep experience with digital payment systems, including mobile payments, online banking, payment gateways, wallets, and point-of-sale systems.
• Quality Engineering Affinity: Strong technical affinity for quality engineering, API integrations, and software development methodologies within the financial sector.
• Hands-on Troubleshooting: Demonstrated ability to dive into the technical architecture, troubleshoot payment integrations, and design structured evaluation criteria.
• Education: Master's degree in Finance, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred.

Human Skills

• Client-Facing Experience: Strong management consulting or managed services background with a client-centric mindset and ability to lead technical discovery.
• Commercial & Strategic Acumen: Experience designing service offerings, understanding cost-to-serve dynamics, and collaborating cross-functionally across sales and partners.
• Systems Thinker: Rapid problem-solving capabilities paired with a continuous learning approach.
• Communication: Excellent written, visual, and oral communication capabilities for technical and business audiences.
• Leadership: Strong leadership ability to motivate and inspire distributed cross-functional teams without direct people management burden.