Staff Software Engineer in Test - SWIFT Payments

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

Visa seeks a Staff Software Engineer in Test to join the Treasury Test Engineering team, a part of the Payments Products Development team. The candidate for this position will be responsible for testing system infrastructure solutions for business-critical high visibility projects. This position will be based in Warsaw, Poland. This position is ideal for an experienced Software Engineer who is passionate about testing complex and challenging business problems and testing applications that provide an excellent user experience. Experience in automated testing, CI/CD, and full stack software design and development is a plus. 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, building, and maintaining automated test solutions for multiple applications on a variety of technology stacks and coordinating with other application teams for integration/interface testing.

The Work itself: 

• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of an enterprise level test automation suite.
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Contribute to the development of robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions. 
• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 
• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities. 

Essential Functions: 

• Demonstrates relevant technical working knowledge to understand requirements.
• Identifies and contributes to the development, testing, and solution strategies to team members that improve the design and functionality of interface features across one or more project features, under minimal guidance.
• Applies standard processes on the use of programming languages (e.g. HTML, Python, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements.
• Collaborates with others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Analyzes bugs for simple issues and applies debugging tools to verify assumptions.

The Skills You Bring: 

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about high quality software design and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale. 
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, “hacking” beyond traditional solutions. 
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Python, Java, C#) 
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability 
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc. 
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Development, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams 

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of and ability to develop tools and automation test code (e.g. Python, Java, C++, PHP) in support of product testing and development.
• Testing experience with SWIFT is a primary skillset
• Knowledge of and the ability to use database software (e.g., applications, web-based applications, information systems) to maintain, modify, and output data.
• Experience testing applications, RESTful services, or microservices on a modern technology stack.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, reporting, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of and the ability to leverage Linux based environments including shell scripting (in any language), deployment of applications and debugging of environmental issues.
• Experience building and testing applications, RESTful services or microservices on a modern technology stack.
• Ability to show creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness.
• Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages, ideally Python.
• Experience with Jenkins, git, or other source control and CI/CD technologies.
• Knowledge and the ability to automate test cases using Selenium, Cucumber, Robot Framework, and other automation tools is desired.
• Knowledge of data structures, which consist of data organization, management, and storage formats that enable efficient access and modifications. This includes a collection of data values, the relationships among them, and the functions or operations that can be applied to the data.

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.