Sr. SW Test Engineer (Automation C# Selenium)

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

As a senior test automation engineer, you will be part of our People Technology team to help deliver world class software for our business partners. You will report to the engineering manager and work as an individual contributor participating in testing (manual & automation) of software. This role will have collaboration with business partners, multiple Visa IT teams and third-party vendors. The portfolio includes SaaS and hosted packaged applications such as Workday, Cornerstone, ADP, SmartRecruiters, ServiceNow, and some homegrown solutions including our Data Warehouse. The candidate will be able to easily understand business requirements and be forward thinking to identify problems that may be effectively resolved with technology solutions. Additionally, this position provides 8x5 application administration and user support services, working primarily with business users to provide technical support and coordinate timely and effective resolution to questions and issues associated with the HR & Learning Systems integrations.

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

Responsibilities

• Drive the test effort from planning to delivery. Develop effective test strategies.

• Write and contribute to test plans and/or test cases in medium to large sized projects.

• Review Functional QA Test cases to identify automation opportunities and to remove redundancy.

• Advocate and educate product/project teams on test design, automation framework use and implementation. Work with those teams to evaluate test-ability of new features/implementations.

• Use your knowledge of testing in defining acceptance criteria and testability to influence better software design, promote best engineering practices, bug prevention strategies, testability, and other quality attributes across products.

• Continually work to incorporate automated tests into our CI and CD deployment pipeline

• Perform creative exploratory testing of new features and products

• Provide critical feedback to Software Engineers and product managers to improve existing and new features and capabilities

• Work with project teams highlighting and detailing any risks and assumptions identified

• Actively engage in the continuous improvement of testing practice with a focus on speed, quality and innovation

• Build working relationships with global and virtual teams on software development

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)
• Excellent knowledge on Open Source Automation Framework tools (Selenium, NUnit, Specflow and similar tools)
• Experience with the Microsoft .Net core, C sharp coding and the Visual Studio IDE and TFS (Azure DevOps)
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and TSQL
• Proven experience working with technologies such as XML, XSD, XSLT, WSDL, XPath, JSON and SOAP/REST Web Services and Web technologies
• Experience with Transport protocols including MQSC, WCF, FTPs, HTTPs, SMTP, LDAP
• Strong API & UI Automation, Integration testing
• Experience working effectively with business and IT staff in multiple locations and in a multinational environment is very strongly preferred
• Strong follow-through, ability to drive to closure and resolution of complex system issues. Excellent problem identification, analysis and solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to absorb, analyze, and understand new information, technologies, and practices quickly
• Exceptional communication and customer facing skills, able to interact effectively with diverse groups of global stakeholders, both technical and business users. Active listener, customer focused, relationship builder, team player
• Product quality conviction, maintain Software standards and best practices, evangelize best practices, Supportability awareness, Non-functional awareness.
• Experience working in Agile environment

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.