Sr. SW Engineer - SDET - Automation, GenAI tooling, API Testing

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 Cloud Platform team is responsible for building frameworks and systems to automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment tools that Visa developers will use to deploy and run their code. Our mission is to make the process seamless for developers to get their code to customers. We are testing and automating the platform and make it easy to deploy, supervise, scale and debug applications.

You will play a critical role in designing and implementing test solutions across all testing phases. You will design and implement automation frameworks from scratch, develop AI‑assisted test solutions, and integrate them deeply with CI/CD pipelines. This role requires strong ownership of design and implementation while applying standard engineering practices to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

Responsibilities – what you’ll do:

• Own the design and implementation of AI tooling, AI agents, and MCP server components to support QA activities such as intelligent test generation, failure analysis, and defect insights.

• Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks from scratch for UI and API testing

• Hands‑on automation using Selenium, Playwright, Robot Framework, and API automation using RestAssured

• Integrate automation frameworks and AI tooling into CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable quality feedback

• Write clean, well‑structured, and maintainable code using Java and/or Python

• Participate in unit testing, code reviews, and continuous integration

• Apply engineering best practices, coding standards, and security considerations in all deliverables

• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and SRE teams to embed quality‑by‑design practices

• Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the team

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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field with 4-7 years of experience in a directly related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4–7 years' experience in software engineering, with a strong emphasis on test automation or test platform development.
• Experience developing AI or GenAI‑based solutions, AI agents, or internal engineering platforms
• Hands-on experience in test design and execution based on business scenarios.
• Strong communication with ability to collaborate with global teams. 
• Strong experience building automation frameworks from scratch
• Hands‑on expertise with Selenium, Playwright, Robot Framework, and RestAssured
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control, and DevOps practices
• Familiarity with cloud‑native and microservices‑based systems Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills
• Experience writing unit and integration test cases
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented design and programming concepts
• Flavors of GenAI: Experience and understanding of Generative AI technologies and their applications.
• Agentic Framework: Understanding of the agentic framework and mindset for leveraging Generative AI.
• Innovation: Ability to think creatively about how to apply GenAI to improve and innovate within the payment technology space.
• Collaboration: Proven experience in working with cross-functional teams to integrate GenAI solutions into existing systems.

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, Python, Javascript, Shell-PowerShell scripting, Ansible Playbooks)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• 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.