Sr. 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.

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.  

Visa Direct team is looking for a Senior Software Test Engineer, who is versatile, curious, and energetic and embraces solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Test Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.   

Essential Functions:

• Sr SW Test Engineer will design and implement test solutions with highest quality using agile tools & methodologies.
• Extensive hands-on QA, white box testing and automation. No Manual testing
• Support continuous integration processes and system deployments
• Write test plans and test cases
• Troubleshoot critical defects in software coding
• Should possess the programing skills to drive test automation
• You have expertise in field of test automation and have driven efforts for implementing test frameworks on web, mobile platform or service oriented architectures
• Work closely with the QE/Developers/Product leads to achieve a high level of Unit & Test coverage
• Plan and conduct User Acceptance Testing with key stakeholders.
• Should have an understanding of the Developer world, be able to voice customer perspective.
• Superior verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience in working with agile lifecycle and/or tracking and process management tools, e.g. Rally, JIRA
• Educational background in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent is highly desirable. MBA a plus
• The ideal candidate for this position will have more than 5+ years of experience in testing highly distributed and complex systems, with an ability to think tactically as well as strategically while leading cross functional teams in a highly matrixed environment.
• A background working in a high transaction online payment environment, developer portals/services or APIs is highly desirable

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

Basic Qualifications:

2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

3 or more 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)

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.

Prior QA experience.

Experience in testing highly distributed and complex systems.

Hands-on Java programming, Automation Scripting, testing experience in JAVA & TestNG.

Experience with Selenium or similar software testing framework.

Experience testing software at API level using SOA suite, SOAP UI, PostMan, REST Client etc.

Experience in executing automated tests for REST based services.

QA Experience in Payment domain is a plus.

Experience with Agile Methodologies, Tools (Rally, JIRA, Confluence).

Hands-on experience working with databases Oracle, MySQL & MongoDB.

Familiarity with mobile testing concept and tools.

Familiarity with Continuous Integration (CI) tools such as Jenkins/Bamboo.

Familiarity with Code Quality Governance related tools.

Hands-on experience with Eclipse or any other IDE development tools.

Experience with distributed source control systems such as Git.

Experience with Gen AI.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY:  The estimated salary range for this position is $109,700 to $170,200 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).  Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.