Staff SW Test Engineer

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.

About the role:

The Staff 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 SDETs, 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.

We are looking for someone:

• Has strong experience of API testing and/or contract testing

• Has strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines

• Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions (ideally in a micro services environment) across large cloud-native architectures

• Has played a major role in designing, developing and evolving the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions

• Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile

• Has an understanding of Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability.

• Has worked as senior QA/SDET in the past, who leads discussions around technical direction and test architecture design decision, as well as mentoring junior SDET members of the team

• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services

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

Basic Qualifications
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ 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 analyse a problem and a solution and recognise 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

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.