Sr. SW Test Engineer

Visa; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Senior SDET to join their Agile Product squad in London. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in automated UI testing and a solid understanding of agile methods. This hybrid position requires strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders. The role offers the chance to work on high-quality solutions in a microservices environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, or 5+ years of experience.
• 3+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years with an Advanced Degree.
• Comfortable working closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, build and maintain QA solutions and processes.
• Coach and guide the team on QA best practices.

Skills

Automated UI testing experience

Coding ability in TypeScript or JavaScript

Knowledge of CI/CD tools

Experience integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines

Strong communication skills

Understanding of agile methods

Knowledge of Containerisation tools

Experience with AWS

Knowledge of Datadog

Cloud-native architecture experience

Experience with Continuous testing

Ability to analyze problems and solutions

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced Degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Docker

Pact

Kubernetes (EKS)

Kafka

Wire mock

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 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.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong automated UI testing experience, ideally in Playwright
• Strong coding ability in TypeScript or JavaScript
• 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 analyze a problem and a solution and recognize the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Strong automated UI testing experience, ideally in Playwright
• Strong coding ability in TypeScript or JavaScript
• 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 Containerization 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 analyze a problem and a solution and recognize the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders
• Contract testing experience, ideally with Pact/Pact flow
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS)
• Kafka experience.
• Experience with mocking tools such as Wire mock
• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services

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.