Senior Software Test 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

Job Description

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.    

The Opportunity:

This position is ideal for an experienced Software Test Engineer who is passionate about testing complex and challenging business problems and testing applications that provide an excellent user experience. The role is for a self-motivated individual with software engineering skills. The candidate will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including analyzing business requirements and design documents, development of Test Plans, Test Design and Test cases, design walk-throughs, testing, and coordinating with other application teams for integration/interface testing.

Essential Functions:

• Perform quality assurance testing inclusive of systems, integration and regression testing, and support the development of automated test scripts to be used to automate regression testing and managing the overall test artifacts and test execution

• Test planning and Test strategy development using industry best practices

• Log and track software defects in the Visa standard defect tracking tool and work with development team on defect resolution

• Manage QA environments and perform application deployment and troubleshooting

• Participate in design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems

• Participate in code reviews with team members.

• Provide support to User Acceptance Testing in terms of data set up and support activities

• Perform walkthrough of QA test results with business partners on need base

• Develop new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met

• Foster partnerships with upstream and downstream teams including system analysts, architects, developers, and product owners or clients to ensure alignment and consistency in reducing product risk throughout the SDLC

• Work with Project managers to provide QA estimates, schedule planning and providing status updates

• Work collaboratively with other QA teams for integration testing activities

• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio for containerization, orchestration, and service mesh

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:
• 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)
• 2+ years of proven experience as a Software Test Engineer
• Proficiency with API testing tools such as Postman, SoapUI, or similar
• Proficiency with API testing frameworks such as REST Assured, Karate, Spock, or similar
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio is a plus
• Experience with Agile Software Development Methodology
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills

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.