Sr Software Engineer - Automation (2-5 years of experience - Java, JavaScript, Oracle database, NoSQL, Angular, Node JS/React, Automation - Selenium/Protractor/Test NG/Cucumber/SoapUI)

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

At Visa, the Corporate Information Technology, Finance Technology team, enables Visa's revenue growth through flexible rules-based pricing engines and global revenue applications built on next-generation technologies. This includes managing system requirements, evaluating cutting-edge technologies, design, development, integration, quality assurance, implementation, and maintenance of corporate revenue applications. The team works closely with business owners of these services to deliver custom developed solutions, as well as implement industry leading packaged software. This team has embarked on a major transformational journey to build and implement best of breed revenue and billing applications to transform our business as well as technology.

Finance Technology is looking for a QA engineer who will be responsible for functional testing and for building automation tools and frameworks for automation testing of enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will bring in-depth experience in building automation frameworks for testing large volume financial systems, building test automation suites, and performing functional testing for UI as well as data/batch-oriented applications.

Candidate must be passionate about using technology to build automation to replace manual processes in both testing and other software development lifecycle steps as well as flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team’s needs and priorities.

The Work itself: 

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability 
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions. 
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

Essential Functions:

• Ability to translate requirements to functional test cases, execute tests and create data needed for testing without assistance.
• Strong skills in debugging, looking at logs, isolate problem scenarios and communicating more precise info to developers.
• Build automation tools and test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Collaborate with software engineers to comprehend application design and specifications, subsequently creating detailed test automation suites based on application functions.
• Design and develop test automation frameworks for both web-based user interfaces and backend batch processes.
• Design and build automation tools for test data generation, data analysis, pattern recognition and monitoring.
• Work with the team in identification of opportunities for automated test executions and drive adoption of automated testing and tools thru the product/project lifecycle.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and proactively assess and evaluate the adoption thereof into the organization.
• Support agile activities: sprint planning, stand ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• Must be self-motivated with ability to work in a fast-paced agile delivery model.
• Productively work with teams in multiple geographical locations and time zones

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

3+ years of relevant work experience and a bachelor's degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

3 - 6 years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

Hands on experience in writing/executing functional test cases for testing applications end to end.

Hands on Experience in automation the Web application through Playwright MCP Framework.

Experience preparing test data based on business scenarios and creating tools and scripts to manufacture test data.

Experience in performing batch testing in data warehousing environments.

Hands on experience with Java, JavaScript, Oracle database, NoSQL database such as MongoDB, Shell Scripts, JSON, and XML.

Hands on experience in building test automation with tools such as Selenium, Protractor, Test NG, Cucumber, SoapUI etc.

Experience working with one of the modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Node JS or React is needed.

Strong interest in new automation technology and trends with the ability to relate concepts to practical application.

Expertise with Agile/Scrum development methodologies and project/requirements management tools like JIRA.

Experience in configuring CI/CD pipeline using industry standard tools such as GIT, Jenkins, Maven etc.

Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way.

Experience working with Performance and load testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner is a plus.

Knowledge of Prompt Engineering and OpenAI's GPT is a plus.

Ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs.

Candidate must be able to proficiently multi-task.

Strong teamwork focus and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams.

The Skills You Bring:

Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale

Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions

Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)

Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability

Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

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.