Sr SDET

Tink; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments technology leader is seeking an SDET to join Agile product squads. The successful candidate will design and maintain QA solutions while coaching team members on best practices. Ideal applicants should have a strong background in API testing, CI/CD integration, and cloud-native architectures, alongside excellent coding skills in Java. This role is pivotal in ensuring quality delivery in a dynamic environment. Join to make an impact in a purpose-driven industry.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in API and contract testing.
• Experience integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in high-quality solutions in microservices environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and practices.
• Coding experience in Java.

Responsibilities

• Join Agile Product squads and ensure quality deliverables.
• Design, develop, and maintain QA solutions.
• Coach team members on QA best practices.

Skills

API testing

Contract testing

CI/CD integration

Cloud-native architecture

Java coding

Excellent communication skills

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI)

Docker knowledge

AWS knowledge

Tools

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Wiremock

Job description

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

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.

Qualifications

• 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

Additional Information

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.