Staff QA Engineer (REF9355Z) - Visa Digital Developer Platform (VDDP)

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purposethat unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

 

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Job Description

Do you have a passion for ensuring quality and engineering excellence of large scale complex distributed systems? Do have a passion for taking ownership of challenging issues, and systematically resolving them through analytical and creative thinking through collaboration with people from multiple teams? Do you take pride in achieving comprehensive test coverage for large, complex product releases and developing reliable, flexible, and comprehensive automation test suites?

 
Job Responsibilities

  • Perform quality assurance testing inclusive of unit, systems, integration and regression testing, and support the development of automated test scripts to be used to automate regression testing and managing the overall test artifacts and test execution
  • Participate in design and implementation of highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigm, APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
  • Help converting business requirements into technical requirements and design and develop system acceptance criteria, functional test plans with a focus on coverage, performance and automation.
  • Contribute to efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.
  • Test planning and Test strategy development using industry best practices
  • Collaborate with the multiple teams across Development, Operation & Infrastructure, Product to analyze, debug and resolve design and code issues. Support cross-functional teams in integrated test efforts.
  • Log software defects in the Visa standard defect tracking tool and work with development team on defect resolution
  • Manage QA environments and perform application deployment and troubleshooting
  • Participate in design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems
  • Participate in code reviews with team members
  • Provide support to User Acceptance Testing in terms of data set up and support activities
  • Perform walkthrough of QA test results with stakeholders
  • Developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
  • Foster partnerships with upstream and downstream teams including system analysts, architects, developers, and product owners or clients to ensure alignment and consistency in reducing product risk throughout the SDLC
  • Work with Project managers to provide QA estimates, schedule planning and providing status updates
  • Work collaboratively with other QA teams for integration testing activities

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field required
  • 5+ years relevant work experience with functional and non-functional testing of applications and experience with unit test and test automation with such tools as Selenium
  • Experience with automation tools like Junit, TestNG, and Selenium
  • Strong knowledge of database query tools like SQL and MySQL and ability to write and
run complex queries for data validation
  • Experience with software development, CI/CD and build tools (Eclipse,Intellij, Jira, Git, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Bamboo)
  • Fundamental understanding of object-oriented programming, distributed systems, web technology (Jetty, Apache), and network protocols (HTTP, TCP/IP)
  • Experience diagnosing bugs using tools such as Splunk
  • Experience on Linux and UNIX hands-on concepts including shell scripting
  • Hands-on experience in testing and building automation suites for complex web services (REST/JSON/SOAP/XML)
  • Solid experience testing high availability backend applications
  • Thorough and deep knowledge of software QA design and methodologies
  • Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Quality Assurance processes and methodologies
  • Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • A passion for developing test-oriented frameworks, tools, utilities and simulators/harness, ensuring superb code quality and manage code governance
  • Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced collaborative environment
  • Ability to work well within a globally distributed team in a high-performance organization
  • Strong desire to learn new technical skills and grow with latest technical trends
  • Experience with distributed database, distributed computing and high frequency transactions is a big plus
  • Experience in payments or Banking Industries a big plus

Additional Information

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