Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

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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Are you interested in working on one of the most exciting domain and fast-growing space? The payment industry, in parallel with technology in general, is experiencing a period of rapid, disruptive innovation. At the same time, mobile connectivity is growing rapidly and, with it, comes the opportunity to extend financial products to the 2.5 billion people around the world who are financially excluded.

Visa Direct is a strategic initiative at Visa, focused on building the next generation payment network connecting, individuals and businesses with banks, fin-tech players, countries and regions with the flexibility to use a variety of payment instruments.

Visa Direct team is undergoing a major ramp-up, looking to hire the best and brightest technologists with ambition and drive to build the next generation of payment network that would further extend the reach and scale of Visa’s payment network. This is once in a lifetime opportunity and you feel excited about joining and leading the revolution- come join us!

Essential Functions:
As a Staff Test Engineer, you will be responsible for the following:

- Be a Quality Engineering SME for Professional Services team to bring in best quality engineering practices.

- Understand complex software system architecture and strategize, design, develop and execute tests to reveal problems

- Design and implement reusable automated test frameworks to drive test automation goals and to support continuous integration and regression testing. Utilize and extend existing test automation test harnesses.

- Report meaningful results with robust first level analysis of issues

- Partner with technical teams to facilitate troubleshooting of issues

- Integrate automated acceptance tests as part of the Agile SDLC

- Work with the team to increase the test coverage using various tools

- Interface with Product Management, Project Management, Software Development, and Quality Engineers to ensure that a high quality product is delivered which meets or exceeds all published guidelines

- Collaborate with developers to improve testability, automation, and tools

- Ability to challenge the status quo that leads to continuous implementations of innovations and efficiencies that have make an impact across the entire product line

What it takes:

· Attention to detail: The capability to perform any research systematically and accurately

· Curiosity: A desire to seek clarity of requirements and why tasks are done a certain way

· Creativity: The ability to take a list of needs and insights and come up with other innovative ideas.

· Strategic focus: Skill to understand big picture and stay focused on task to achieve goals

· Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills and be a team player.

· Enthusiasm: Passion to understand people and deliver better products and services to them

· Strong work ethic: The innate drive to do work extremely well with high professional hygiene

· Excellence: Passion for high quality and efficiency

· Evangelism: Be Comfortable leading meetings and discussions with non-technical teams.

· Leadership: Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead.

· Coaching : Be a go to person for enabling other team members

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.

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:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and 8+ years of Software Development Experience or a Masters with 7+ years of Software Development Experience.
• 8+ years’ experience testing highly distributed and complex systems.
• QA Experience in Payment domain is a plus.
• Hands-on Java programming, Automation Scripting, testing experience in JAVA & TestNG.
• Experience with Selenium or similar software testing framework.
• Experience in building framework and executing automated and performance tests for REST based services.
• Experience with Agile Methodologies, Tools (JIRA, Confluence).
• Hands-on experience working with databases Oracle & MySQL.
• Experience testing software at API level using SOA suite, SOAP UI, PostMan, REST Client etc.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration (CI) tools such as Jenkins or monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with Code Quality Governance related tools.
• Hands-on experience with Eclipse or any other IDE development tools.
• Experience with distributed source control systems such as Git.
• Have demonstrable experience in leading testing effort on large-scale software project
• Business knowledge of VISA Authorization, E2E and Clearing and Settlement process is a big plus.
• The ideal candidate for this position will have more than 8+ years of experience in testing highly distributed and complex systems, with an ability to think tactically as well as strategically while leading cross functional teams in a highly matrixed environment. A background working in a high transaction online payment environment, developer portals/services or APIs is highly desirable.

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.