Staff Software Engineer in Test - Python

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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Visa seeks a Staff Software Engineer in Test to join the Treasury Test Engineering team, a part of the Payments Products Development team. The candidate for this position will be responsible for testing system infrastructure solutions for business-critical high visibility projects. This position will be based in Warsaw, Poland. This position is ideal for an experienced Software Engineer who is passionate about testing complex and challenging business problems and testing applications that provide an excellent user experience.

Experience in automated testing, CI & CD, and full stack software design and development is a plus. The candidate will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including analyzing business requirements and design documents, test documentation development, design walk-throughs, testing, building, and maintaining automated test solutions for multiple applications on a variety of technology stacks and coordinating with other application teams for integration testing.

The Work itself

• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of an enterprise level test automation suite.
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads
• Contribute to the development of 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

• Define test automation architecture including environments and connections.
• Organize work on test automation framework.
• Define Git-flow and code review process.
• Implement CI working with DevOps team.
• Have deep understanding of a project, infrastructure, business value, and a functionality they work on.
• Define test suits, tracks test automation coverage, efficiency and stability.
• Organize tasks allocation in Test Engineering team.
• Estimate stories, create test documentation in Zephyr, tests requirements.
• Test functionality defining what should be covered and how, define what to automate, develops tests.
• Support Test Engineering infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring

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

• Knowledge of and ability to develop tools and automation test code (e.g. Python, Java) in support of product testing and development.
• Experience with Jenkins, git, or other source control and CI/CD technologies.
• Knowledge and the ability to automate test cases using Playwright, pyTest.
• Experience building and testing applications, RESTful services or microservices on a modern technology stack.
• Knowledge of and the ability to leverage Linux based environments including shell scripting (in any language), deployment of applications and debugging of environmental issues.
• Knowledge of and the ability to use SQL databases and other modern data storage systems.
• Knowledge of data structures, which consist of data organization, management, and storage formats that enable efficient access and modifications. This includes a collection of data values, the relationships among them, and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data.
• Practical implementation of efficient Gen AI tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Sonnet, Aider, and similar solutions, to accelerate research and test development.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to show creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness.

“This role qualifies for Autorskie Koszty Uzyskania Przychodu (KUP), in accordance with applicable Polish tax regulations. Eligible employees may benefit from preferential tax treatment on income derived from the creation of intellectual property, subject to meeting statutory criteria.”

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.