Senior QA Automation Engineer - VXBS - Analyst

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When partnering with Visa, you are also in a way part of a culture of purpose and belonging – where the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Visa Cross-Border Solutions offers deep money movement capabilities to organisations across the globe. Powered by Currencycloud technology, Visa Cross-Border Solutions enhances, streamlines and simplifies integrating the cross-border financial tools of tomorrow. 

Clients can embed cross-border finance into the heart of their business and create sophisticated and user-friendly app-based experiences, connecting consumers and businesses around the world. 

Since 2012, the technology behind Visa Cross-Border Solutions has been used to process more than $250bn to over 180 countries, partnering with banks, businesses and fintechs all over the world.

Partner with Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

What's it all about?

The Senior QA Engineer role is an ambassador of quality. You’ll be joining one of our Agile Product squads which consist of a Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineers and fellow QA Engineers, reporting into a Tribe QA Engineering Manager. You will play a key role in ensuring the team delivers efficient, effective and scalable solutions for a wide range of problems. You will design, develop, build and maintain QA solutions and processes. You will also coach and guide all in the team on QA best practices.

Qualifications

Experience:

• Has strong experience of API testing and/or contract testing

• Has strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines

• Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions (ideally in a micro services environment) across large cloud-native architectures

• Has played a major role in designing, developing and evolving the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions

• Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile 

• Has an understanding of Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability.

• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services

Skills:

• Strong coding and scripting ability in Java and/or Ruby

• Excellent communication skills: written & verbal

• The ability to technically analyse a problem and a solution and recognise the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders

• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work

• A sound understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD

• The ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to determine appropriate acceptance criteria for both business and technical needs

• Ability to make tactical as well as strategic decisions and recommendations based on incomplete or ambiguous information

• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI

• Strong knowledge of Docker and AWS (public cloud)

• Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and Kafka is desirable

• Experience with mocking tools such as Wiremock

Additional Information

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.