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.

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As the world’s leader in digital payments technology, Visa’s mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment platform - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

Cross-border remittances and new business models (e.g., gig economy) require the ability to deploy rapid, frequent payouts. We are building a Technology Platform that will enable fast and ubiquitous push payments across a range of domestic and cross border use cases aiming to capture significant revenue opportunity across P2P, B2SB, and B2C flows and value-added services. Built on the latest standards/tech stack and providing open APIs, this platform will help drive innovation in the entire ecosystem.

We value creative and driven individuals who love to own their products, and design and implement solutions that create a seamless experience for consumers and clients.  Our developers work across the stack, and are experts in service oriented architectures and technologies such as Java 8, J2EE, Spring, Oracle, MongoDB, React JS, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Kafka, Kubernetes and Docker

As we embark on the journey to build this platform, we are looking for a Staff Software Test Engineer who can participate in the detailed design and development activities for this product build.

The role involves extensive hands-on activities. Here are key job responsibilities –

• Understand the Payments industry and where Visa Direct fits in the payment’s ecosystem

  
  

• Understand the business initiatives and their importance to the growth of Visa Direct.

  
  

• Develop a good understanding of the Visa Direct technology platform.

  
  

• Collaborate with product owners and technical staff globally to define requirements for new features and enhancements to the platform.

  
  

• Collaborate and communicate effectively within the team as well as across multiple teams and stakeholders.

  
  

• Provide QA input into delivery of features and stories – estimation and sizing.

  
  

• Question and think outside of acceptance criteria to identify exception scenarios, error states, etc.

  
  

• Take on leadership responsibilities and influence the direction of the testing and automation efforts.

  
  

• Take ownership and lead the test engineering responsibility for multiple components of the platform.

  
  

• Collaborate with QA Engineers from various locations and ensure smooth delivery of releases.

  
  

• Ability to identify and manage risks at all stages of the project.

  
  

• Adherence to practices such as test coverage, open defect counts, continuous integration, code reviews, code quality and shift left practices.

  
  

• Stay up to date with new testing approaches, tools, technologies, and test strategies.

  
  

• Drive improvements in processes and frameworks across the team.

  
  

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

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
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Proven track record of having led and delivered complex projects.
• Experience of managing a test engineering team of 3-4 people.
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Experience in Rest API testing, performance testing basics and security/authentication.
• Proficiency in Java 8+ (Core Java, Collection Framework, JDBC, Functional Programming).
• Experience with automation testing tools such as RestAssured, TestNG, JSON and XML Parsers, Jenkins, Cucumber and Github.
• Proficiency in usage of SQL queries and creating stored procedures.
• Passion to work with people and help mentor your team.
• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks or projects.
• Exposure to performance testing tools like JMeter/LoadRunner and security testing is a plus.
• Knowledge on containerization tools like Docker/Kubernetes is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Kafka and cloud-based application architecture and principles is a plus.

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.