Staff SW 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

Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Staff SW Test Engineer (multiple openings) in Foster City, CA to

• Participate in design discussions and implementation of highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigm, APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
• Collaborate with product and software developer teams to establish Certification for production release, automation of End to End use cases, and develop collaboration tools to improve Quality.
• Collaborate with team to build performance test suite.
• Run simulations with high throughput workload and analyze performance simulation results to fine tune component design and implementation.
• Maintain and/or develop automation tools/frameworks to automate functional and regression test scenarios.
• Execute and confirm automated test during certification cycles.
• Develop test scripts, test conditions, input test data, and expected results for one or more test plans in a development cycle by analyzing the Functional Specifications and Business Requirements.
• Manage all communications related to QA Status on a daily basis during execution.
• Report potential risks during all stages of development lifecycle.
• Establish quality process to ensure software quality in a continuous integration environment.
• Work with the development team to resolve any issues that arise out of the testing process.
• Ensure adherence to the company's software testing processes and policies.
• Retain Audit compliance while supporting end users during their testing cycle.
• Provide daily updates on the QA activities in scrum calls.
• Work with Business Partners, internal staff, external vendors and system integrators on a daily basis to ensure quality assurance is performed in alignment with global initiatives and requirements across the enterprise Offshore-Onsite co-ordination with the teams.
• Position reports to the Employer's Foster City, California office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field, and eight years of progressive, post baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a Staff SW Test Engineer-related occupation.
• QA process.
• Unit, Acceptance, Performance, and Non-functional testing and BDD/TDD methodology.
• API based test automation frameworks including Cucumber, Selenium and Gherkin.
• Automation scripts on Jenkins using CI/CD pipelines.
• Distributed database, distributed computing, and high frequency transactions.

Additional Information

Worksite: Foster City, CA

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.

Travel Requirements: This position does not require travel.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.                

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $168418.00 USD to $189500.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for an annual bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position is eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Program, FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time off and Wellness Programs.