Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

First responsibility as a Test Tools Developer / Test Automation Engineer [nearly 60% - 70 % of the work time]:

• Contribute to all phases of the SDLC including requirements gathering, creating design documents, coding and unit testing, technical documentation till production implementation. The product developed should be of the highest quality meeting all requirements within the scheduled timeframe.
• Comprehensive knowledge of programming and strong ability to code using legacy languages (such as REXX) and open systems technologies (such as C#/.NET, JAVA etc.). Ideate and use innovative approaches to accommodate tight schedules and resource constraints by building and implementing scalable, reusable test automation frameworks.
• Marshall industry standard coding, design patterns and best practices within Visa. Suggest and cultivate ideas on the extension of the current test tools and frameworks to new products and services.
• Coordinate and collaborate with VIP Test Engineering (VIP TE) stakeholders, technical leads and staff members across geographies to define requirements / modifications for use in designing appropriate test tools, frameworks and solutions. Evaluate options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop such solutions.
• Proactively assess emerging technologies and evaluate the adoption thereof into the organization. Conduct POCs for technology and tools evaluation to ensure they are good fit for Visa’s requirements.

Second responsibility as a Manual Test Engineer [nearly 30% - 40% of the work time]:

• Design and develop comprehensive test plans and test cases from business requirements and conceptual documents for the application changes and efficiently execute the same across all functional areas, products, and solutions.
• Test code manually as well as utilize test automation suites to enable the team to be more efficient and effective. Analyze and report test results to Development and Product teams.
• Collaborate and work with Development, System Architecture and Product teams to analyze, debug and resolve design or code issues. Be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the SDLC.
• Report project status, highlight risks and issues to Project Managers and Management, also provide solutions and options.
• Implement standard processes, tools, and metrics to deliver large-scale projects from inception to conclusion that meet quantifiable business objectives.
• Maintain appropriate vendor, partner relationships and internal service level agreements to facilitate daily workflow.
• Coordinate and support integration, end-to-end testing with peer Test Engineering groups to ensure seamless code releases.
• Maintain test environments and contribute to other VIP Test Engineering daily activities.

Additional information:
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.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Electronics (or equivalent technical
degree) is required. Master’s degree in engineering is a plus.
• 4 to 8 years of relevant work experience or an equivalent mix of work and
project experience in Test Tools Development (Test Automation) and Manual
Testing, preferably in the Electronic / Digital Payments domain.
• In-depth understanding of SDLC and STLC, Tools Development and Test
Engineering processes and methodologies.
• Solid programming skills in any object-oriented programming language
(primarily C#/.NET, secondly JAVA / C++ etc.) and knowledge of
SQL/Databases (ability to write and execute SQL queries to validate data) will
be required.
• Strong knowledge of VM/REXX Programming (including PIPE programming)
is a big plus.
• Must have experience using version control repository and source code
management products such as GitHub, TFS etc. and other tools like Jira,
SharePoint, Wiki and Jenkins etc.
• Knowledge of ISO 8583, ISO 20022, SOAP/XML, JSON etc. messages,
familiarity with RESTful APIs, SOAP UI, hands-on experience on Tokenization,
Push Payments, Chip, EMV etc. will be an added advantage.
• Preferably 3+ years of experience in zTPF (Mainframe), VM/CMS, VM/VPARS
etc., IBM S/390 Assembler/HLASM, C/C++, DB2, etc., IBM TPF Toolkit and
associated debugger.
• Good problem solving, analytical and technical troubleshooting skills. Be able
to thrive in a self-motivated internal-innovation driven environment.
• Ability to be flexible and work well with a globally distributed team in a high
performance organization. Proven willingness and desire to learn new skills
and take on new tasks and initiatives.
• Ability to work independently with limited direction, in a complex environment,
to drive delivery of solutions and meet service levels. Should be process
oriented and possess good planning and self-organizational skills.
• With active engagement, collaboration, effective communication, quality,
integrity and reliable delivery, develop and maintain a trusted and valued
relationship with the team, management, customers and technology partners.

Additional Information

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.