Staff Software Test Engineer

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.

The Staff Test Engineer role is key to our ongoing transformation, requiring you to solve challenging business problems and test highly scalable, user-friendly applications. Key responsibilities include:

• Designing, documenting, and implementing new test flows, enhancements, and modifications to existing QA software that aligns with test design specifications, security, and QA best practices.

• Interacting with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality QA services that meet business requirements, using the latest tools and technology.

• API / Microservices testing and test automation with rest assured and java or similar skills sets

• Mobile testing for the VISA features for both iOS and Android devices.

• Identifying opportunities for product innovation and improvements to best practices, standards, and processes.

• Mentoring more junior test engineers to ensure timely delivery of good quality code.

• Coordinating Continuous Integration activities, testing automation frameworks, and contributing core product code.

• Presenting technical QA solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms.

• Communicating status, issues, and risks effectively and timely.

• Working independently to develop QA software that conforms to Visa’s high standards of security, quality, performance, resiliency, and compliance.

• Independently creating multiple QA artifacts for projects and presenting these artifacts to team members and other stakeholders.

• Collaborating with Product Owners to break down solutions into smaller achievable tasks.

• Supporting other test engineers and operation teams in troubleshooting, defect research, issue root cause analysis, etc.

Why this is important to Visa:

This role will support a key client of Visa and will help to scale our Managed Services capabilities supporting Visa’s ambition of diversifying our revenue.  Managed Services is an emerging, fast growth, focus area for the Visa business globally.

This role will support one of our most strategically important issuing clients of Visa and will be responsible for delivering significant improvements to their digital consumer banking and payments experience. If you are a trailblazer, this is the role for you.  We need a leader to establish a strong team, set the vision for how we will deliver value to our client and develop the best practice template for how we expand this Managed Service offering in Asia Pacific.

Key Competencies:

• Active Contributor to Team Success - Actively participating as a member of the Managed Service Leadership Team. Makes suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions, provides necessary assistance to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals.

• Decision Making - Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities, comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions, using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions, taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.

• High-Impact Communication - Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations, communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others’ thoughts and actions.

• Tenacity - Staying with a position or plan of action until the desired objective is obtained or is no longer reasonably attainable. Adjusts focus when it becomes obvious that a goal cannot be achieved, redirects energy into related achievable goals if appropriate.

• Building Strategic Work Relationships - Developing and using collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals. Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions (enhances self-esteem, empathizes, involves, discloses, supports).

• Driving Execution - Translates requirements into actions by determining action steps and milestones required to implement a specific business initiative, adjusts activities or timelines as circumstances warrant. Uses the tools and processes to optimally drive the desired outcomes meeting client’s and visa’s objectives.

• Solution-mind set – Applying creative problem-solving techniques and championing a client-first approach to solutioning when opportunities and challenges arise to meet specific business objectives. Employs a structured approach to a problem with a holistic view. Strives to research and investigate to ensure the solution is future proof.

• Business-Technical Translator – Translates complex technical specifications into well-defined business concepts, showcasing the impacts and implementation considerations to develop and deliver solutions for the client.

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.

• 8+ Experience in a testing and technical background. Must understand and have experience of the full lifecycle of testing
• 4+ years demonstrated development experience in Java and test automation
• Strong Experience with automation testing, with preferred strong java skills / or any other scripting language, rest assured framework, postman or similar tools.
• Experience building out a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline with experience in GIT, Maven, Jenkins or such build automation tools.
• Knowledgeable about Database technologies like Oracle, SQL Server, Postgre SQL or Mongo.
• Devops knowledge with experience in Container-based development using platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Understanding of non-functional testing in the likes of Performance testing, Penetration testing,
Splunk and Dynatrace knowledge.

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.