Sr. SW Test Engineer

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

About the role:

The Sr Software Developer in Test (SDET) role is an ambassador of quality. You’ll be joining one of our Agile Product squads which consist of a Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineers, and fellow SDET Engineers, reporting into QA lead. You will play a key role in ensuring the team delivers efficient, effective, and scalable solutions for a wide range of problems. You will design, develop, build, and maintain QA solutions and processes. You will also coach and guide all in the team on QA best practices.

Experience:

• Strong experience of API testing and/or contract testing
• Strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines
• Played a major role in the delivery of high-quality solutions (ideally in a microservices environment) across large cloud-native architectures
• Played a major role in designing, developing, and evolving the test architecture of large-scale, highly available cloud solutions
• Drove positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps, and Agile
• Understanding of Cloud-Native architectures and practices: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation, and observability
• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments, or Financial Services

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong coding and scripting ability in Java and/or Ruby
• Excellent communication skills: written & verbal
• The ability to technically analyze a problem and a solution and recognize the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work
• A sound understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD, and TDD
• The ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to determine appropriate acceptance criteria for both business and technical needs
• Ability to make tactical as well as strategic decisions and recommendations based on incomplete or ambiguous information
• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
• Strong knowledge of Docker and AWS (public cloud)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and Kafka is desirable
• Experience with mocking tools such as Wiremock

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.