Senior Software Engineer in Test

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:

We are looking for talented, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a cross-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of cutting-edge payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

The Work itself:

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings.
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, value added service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads.
• Develop 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.

• Works alongside others to implement modifications to existing software code that complies with design specifications and meets security best practices.
• Assists with improvements to systems and tools and supports development and implementation of new automation, asking questions as necessary.
• Engages with team members and manager during code/design reviews, participates in on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
• Leverages working knowledge of systems/platforms and telemetry analyses to identify basic issues in code, processes, and designs when they are inconsistent with customer/business objectives.
• Understand new system enhancement requirements and design test strategy & test cases & functionally test features end-to-end to ensure optimum quality of solutions being delivered.
• Automate testing using proprietary Visa frameworks as well as other open-source / commercial tools to achieve maximum test coverage.
• Play an Automation Lead role for newly developed features & carry out testing efforts such as functional testing, integration testing, regression testing, bug tracking etc.
• Have strong debugging skills to be able to find issues through execution of Automation suite and also be able to analyse the problem through log stacktrace or UI Console output to actual code / config that is causing problems to help fix the defect.
• Leverage newer technologies and develop solutions to build the next generation of payment solutions.
• Help our clients achieve their business goals by understanding their requirements and delivering the best solution.

The Skills You Bring:

Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies 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 Java

Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality, scalability and testability.

Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, NoSQL, etc.

Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have awesome 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.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.

OR

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field AND minimum two (2) years of experience in a directly related field.

OR

• Minimum five (5) years of directly related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of back-end Java code development
• Ability to develop and utilize APIs
• Knowledge of database software
• Knowledge of systems integration
• Knowledge of data structures
• Strong experience in software automation methodologies
• Hands-on experience in backend technologies including JAVA, SQL and related technology stack
• Hands-on experience in Test automation frameworks and technologies like RestAssured, Karate, TestNG
• Hands-on experience on Behaviour driven development (BDD) frameworks like Cucumber, JBehave or Serenity
• Hands-on experience in Spring Framework, Spring Boot, MongoDB and JPA / Hibernate
• Hands on experience in distributed architecture & data streaming approaches like Kafka and RabbitMQ
• Expertise in various testing methodologies
• Solid experience in tools like JMeter, SoapUI, Postman / Any REST Client
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, problem solving and complexity analysis
• Strong designing, analytical, programming & communication skills
• Experience with web services standards and related technologies
• Demonstrable experience utilizing object-oriented patterns and design best practices
• Experience working with a variety of Application Servers and Databases such as Tomcat and Oracle
• Familiarity with common application security vulnerabilities and how to overcome them (OWASP)
• Knowledge in micro services and hands-on experience on container platforms like Kubernetes, Docker and OpenShift
• Knowledge on Performance analysis tools like Riverbed and Monitoring tools like Splunk and Opera