Staff Software Test Engineer (Hybrid/Onsite)

Visa; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a global leader in payments as a Staff Software Test Engineer in Austin, TX. You will be instrumental in building and maintaining QA processes for efficient and scalable solutions while coaching your team on QA best practices. This hybrid role offers competitive salary and benefits, contributing to innovative financial services.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Potential bonuses and equity

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree.
• Experience integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Background in FinTech or Payments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain QA solutions and processes.
• Coach team on QA best practices.
• Integrate testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Java

Ruby

CI/CD

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Kafka

Wiremock

Contract Testing

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Staff Software Test Engineer (Hybrid/Onsite)

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Staff Software Test Engineer (Hybrid/Onsite)

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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.

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.

Essential Functions

• 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.
  
  

• Experience with mocking tools such as Wiremock
  
  

• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services
  
  

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

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.



Preferred Qualifications

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 integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines

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

Kafka experience

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 112,100 to 162,600 per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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