Software Test Engineer

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 you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and 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.

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 unit, 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 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

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 AND minimum of two (2) years of relevant work experience

OR

• Minimum five (5) years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of software design, architecture, and development experience.
• Strong foundation in computer science, with excellent competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design, optimized for building highly distributed and parallelized systems.
• Hands on experience in Core Java, J2EE technologies, Microservices, Spring, Hibernate, REST APIs.
• Strong in Core Java development concepts and design patterns.
• Good design and coding skills in Java/J2ee, Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Soap/Rest APIs.
• Experience developing back-end services and applications, including micro-services architecture.
• Experience with mobile (IOS and Android) testing/ Automation frameworks like Selenium/Appium (desirable)
• Experience with TypeScript (desirable)
• Experience in writing self-validating code using unit tests or following TDD.
• Capable to leverage DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test Driven. Development to enable the rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools like Jenkins, Maven, Chef, Git and Docker.
• Experience in Agile development is helpful

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.