Sr. SW Test Engineer

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

Company Description

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.

Job Description

  • Accountable for creating application and infrastructure performance plans/models for a highly scalable, low-latency, highly-available and high-throughput payment processing system.

  • Work with the architects and development team to ensure proper metrics instrumentation done in software components, to help facilitate real time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

  • Hands on experience in Unix/Linux OS environments and operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage and networking protocols System internals. Having working knowledge with VMs and Containers.

  • Expert knowledge and strong experience using tools, Loadrunner/Jmeter,. etc. and understanding of APM solutions like Appdynamics, dynatrace, OPNET,. etc

  • Coding Knowledge in programming languages like Java/Python and scripting languages is must

  • Evaluate, develop and execute load test tools to stress the limits of Visa’s most critical payment applications.

  • Understand and performance test the APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.

  • Should have experience in defining Performance Strategy and reporting performance baselines required to certify Go-Lives. Should have strong experience in handling multiple tasks and stakeholders

  • Should be well versed in documenting the steps performed during course of performance tests cycle including performance test scripts used

  • Should be able to able to look at the code and suggest optimization techniques.

  • Should have ability to work independently and be a team player.

  • Actively contribute to capacity planning and disaster recovery exercises.

  • Support in triaging and troubleshooting of issues related to performance degradation incidents in production environment

  • Monitor application performance, optimize performance bottlenecks and usage to create an application capacity model.

  • Help optimizing system components such as CPU/Memory/Disk/Network & OS/Application software for maximizing the computer resources utilization.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications
• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Bachelors and/or Masters degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in Performance Engineering, Tuning, analysis or applications program development.

Additional Information

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.

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