Currencycloud was acquired by Visa in December 2021. 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.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Remote work

At Currencycloud, you can work from home, or visit our lush offices in London, Cardiff or Amsterdam! You'll need to be based in either the UK or Netherlands for this role, and have the necessary work permissions.

About the role...

We’re looking for experienced, motivated and talented QA Automation Engineers to help us build the technology that will power the future of payments.

The QA Engineer role is an ambassador of quality. You should strive to ensure that we are maintaining a high level of quality across all our processes. You will consider and suggest improvements within the development process. You will also be responsible for the estimation, planning and execution of test cases, both automated and manual and you will ensure any defects in quality are logged appropriately and see them through to completion. 

• You’ll be joining one of our agile Product squads which consist of an Engineering Manager, Software Engineers and fellow QAs, and will play a key role in ensuring the team delivers simple, scalable solutions for a wide range of problems. This process involves planning sessions with the engineering team and discussions around designing the solution. We are a team who are always looking for ways to improve our process, and your experience and curiosity will help us do that. Part of the role involves demoing new features and functionality to stakeholders.
• Participating in agile ceremonies such as standup, backlog grooming etc., working closely with developers and operations on testing new features and upgrades within the team product area and maintaining existing, building new and adding to automation frameworks to improve test coverage

EXPERIENCE

• A complete understanding of lean and agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD
• Flexibility in working around logistic and technical blockers
• The ability to work closely with non-technical and technical stakeholders in order to determine accurate acceptance criteria

SKILLS / TECH

• Automated testing API frameworks, ideally using Java, Ruby or Javascript
• Experience with BDD style tools such as Cucumber
• API testing and tools - e.g. Postman, Restassured, Newman
• AWS deployments or deployment tools - e.g. Jenkins
• Diagnosing, reporting, tracking and resolving quality issues utilising ticketing systems and documentation software - e.g. JIRA and Confluence
• Containerisation and management of tools like Docker and Kubernetes is desirable but not essential

PERSONALITY

• Attention to detail
• Written and verbal communication
• Critical thinking, interpretive and analytic abilities
• Team working and workload management skills
• Soft skills e.g the ability to communicate improvements and challenges effectively, being able to say no when necessary, and a strong willingness to improve

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.