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When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Purpose of Role

A Senior Test Analyst takes ownership of testing and ensures that the product is delivered to customers with a high level of quality through applying leading edge testing and quality enhancement processes.

A Senior Test Analyst will have the freedom to plan and execute testing in the way that suits them and the team, within some broad boundaries. They will find the most effective way to reduce risk, with a focus on ensuring the quality of the product is visible. They will maintain active interaction with other stakeholders to ensure that not only is the solution bug free, but additional requirements and needs are explored.

In our Agile teams, we closely collaborate to deliver business value and maintain a culture of trust, respect, and teamwork. Working with the developers, business analyst, product owner, and engineering team lead, a Senior Test Analyst will be the independent test expert with versatile skills to become a cross-functional team member. As an integral part of the development team, they will lead a variety of tasks which includes manual testing as well as building and maintaining test automation suite.  As part of the wider QA Team, a Senior Test Analyst will share knowledge and contribute to initiatives identified by the business. Continuous learning and improvement will be a key to success in this role, with opportunities for internal development and leadership within the organization.

You will be part of a team who are growing the capabilities and services in the Visa Spend Clarity to deliver scalable and robust solutions that will take Visa Spend Clarity to more customers and users around the globe.  With an engineering group of nearly 300 people, Visa Spend Clarity is a key focus area with large growth ambitions driven by customer needs and a desire to innovate using modern cloud technologies.

Areas of Accountability

Commitment to Quality

Balancing Resources and Outcomes

Consistently advocates for quality over time and feature constraints

Internal Collaboration and Communication

Identifies and suggests solutions to problems impacting team, asks for guidance in unfamiliar areas, and pulls in others as needed

Engineering Design

Makes well-reasoned design decisions, identifying potential issues, trade-offs, risks, and the appropriate level of abstraction

Driving Change

Industry Knowledge

Demonstrates knowledge of industry trends and tools

Influencing

Influences teams with which they work and have worked, encouraging team ownership of quality

Hiring

May participate in hiring

Reasoned Design

Understands elements of the business that their work supports, makes well-reasoned design decisions and trade-offs in their area

Learning to Teach

Uses their learning opportunities as opportunities to make learning the same or similar things easier for the next person

Broad Leadership

Leads initiatives and meetings within team. Contributes to consensus for decisions 

Organizational Implementation and Impact

Understands the team and makes decisions based on its direction

Independence

External Collaboration and Communication

Provides visibility to stakeholders based on the work of the whole team, and provides advice to stakeholders based on their own work

Autonomous

Requires minimal direction or oversight and is proactive about potential issues. Handles open-ended problems and ambiguity well

Reliable

Trusted to do what they say they will do, or communicate promptly if there is an issue

Problem Complexity

Works independently under limited supervision on difficult and mildly complex problems

Leadership

Contribution to Growth

Contributes to regular team training sessions

Leadership and Influence

Develops engineers to grow testing skills through effective technical coaching

Technical Collaboration and Communication

Communicates technical issues and decisions clearly and proactively to a cross-functional audience. Mastering ability to express complicated issues simply

Compromising

Engages in productive dialog even when there are conflicting views, both inside and outside team. Seeks to understand other points of view

Communication and Influence

Influences others in the team as well as others we work with within job function regarding practices, procedures, policies, and mindsets

Internal Leadership

Leads and coaches within their team where possible, shares their experience and expertise to help others grow. Self-aware of strengths and weaknesses

Leadership and Talent Management

May coach and review the work of lower-level professionals

Internal Support

May mentor less-senior engineers

Implementation and Impact

Starting to broaden impact. Considers effects of their work on other teams, as well as identifying and helping to resolve problems facing team

Fit-For-Purpose Implementation

Understands how people use the product/services they build, and how their work fits in. Exercises empathy for the people writing the tests

Collaboration and Communication

Can express complicated technical issues simply and clearly to non-technical colleges

Product Knowledge

Domain Knowledge

Has a basic understanding of all the tools and products we use, as well as an expert understanding of at least one of them

Broad Spend Clarity Enterprise Knowledge

Has a basic understanding of the Spend Clarity Enterprise product(s) and how others' impact their area

Specific Spend Clarity Enterprise Knowledge

Has an in-depth knowledge of Spend Clarity Enterprise product(s) in some areas they have worked on

Technical Ability

Community Engineering Excellence

Excels at troubleshooting when test execution does not go as expected. Solves problems lower-level professionals struggle with

Knowledge and Experience

In depth evidence of test analysis skills and techniques. Leads questions in team planning. Uses risk-based approaches to give the best coverage possible at a pace appropriate for the work

Engineering Excellence

Follows the broader engineering community to understand improvements to how we work 

Technical Expertise

Applies knowledge of technical advances from a variety of industries within their team

Broad Implementation and Impact

Contributes to the foundational good of their domain and engineering overall, plus working to reduce technical debt

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.