Software Engineer in Test - Java

Visa; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payments technology firm in the United Kingdom is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join their Agile Product squad. This role focuses on ensuring high-quality solutions and coaching the team on best practices. Candidates should have strong coding skills in Java and experience with API testing, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures. An understanding of FinTech or payments is desirable. This position offers a dynamic environment that fosters innovation and quality.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in API testing and/or contract testing.
• Experience integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Background in FinTech, Payments, or Financial Services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, build, and maintain QA solutions.
• Coach and guide the team on QA best practices.
• Analyze technical problems and lead discussions with stakeholders.

Skills

API testing

CI/CD integration

Microservices

Cloud-native architectures

Continuous testing

Java

Agile methodologies

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI)

Docker

AWS

Tools

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Wiremock

Job description

The 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.

• Has strong experience of API testing and/or contract testing
• Has strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines
• Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions (ideally in a micro services environment) across large cloud-native architectures
• Has played a major role in designing, developing and evolving the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions
• Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile
• Has an understanding of Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability
• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services
• Strong coding and scripting ability in Java
• Excellent communication skills: written & verbal
• 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
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work
• A sound understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD
• 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
• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
• Strong knowledge of Docker and AWS (public cloud)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and Kafka is desirable
• Experience with mocking tools such as Wiremock

About Visa

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.