Staff Software Test Engineer (Hybrid/Onsite)

Visa•Austin, TX

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 Senior SDET role is an ambassador of quality. You’ll be joining one of our Agile Product squads which consist of a Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineers and fellow SDETs, reporting into a Tribe QA Engineering Manager. You will play a key role in ensuring the team delivers efficient, effective and scalable solutions for a wide range of problems. You will design, develop, build and maintain QA solutions and processes. You will also coach and guide all in the team on QA best practices.

Requirements

Strong coding ability in Java and/or Ruby
Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
Strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines
Strong communication skills: written & verbal
Strong understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD
Strong knowledge of Containerisation tools, such as Docker
Experience with AWS (public cloud)
Strong knowledge of Datadog
Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions, in a micro services environment, across large cloud-native architectures
Has designed, developed and evolved the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions
Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile
Comfortable challenging the status quo
The ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to determine appropriate acceptance criteria for both business and technical needs
Ability to make tactical as well as strategic decisions and recommendations based on incomplete or ambiguous information
The ability to technically analyse a problem and a solution and recognise the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders
Contract testing experience, ideally with Pact/Pactflow
Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS)
Kafka experience
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.

Nice To Haves

Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Strong API testing skills, ideally in Java.
Strong experience with AWS (public cloud)
Strong knowledge of Containerisation tools, such as Docker and knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS).
Strong knowledge of Datadog
Strong knowledge of mocking tools such as Wiremock
Contract testing knowledge, ideally with Pact/Pactflow