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The details:

The Senior QA Engineer role is an ambassador of quality. You’ll be joining one of our Agile Product squads which consist of a Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineers and fellow QA Engineers, reporting into a Tribe QA Engineering Manager. You will play a key role in ensuring the team delivers efficient, effective and scalable solutions for a wide range of problems. You will design, develop, build and maintain QA solutions and processes. You will also coach and guide all in the team on QA best practices.

Experience:

• Has strong experience of API testing and/or contract testing

• Has strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines

• Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions (ideally in a micro services environment) across large cloud-native architectures

• Has played a major role in designing, developing and evolving the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions

• Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile 

• Has an understanding of Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability.

• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services

This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice.

Strong coding and scripting ability in Java and/or Ruby

Excellent communication skills: written & verbal

The ability to technically analyse a problem and a solution and recognise the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders

Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work

A sound understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD

The ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to determine appropriate acceptance criteria for both business and technical needs

Ability to make tactical as well as strategic decisions and recommendations based on incomplete or ambiguous information

Excellent knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI

Strong knowledge of Docker and AWS (public cloud)

Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and Kafka is desirable

Experience with mocking tools such as Wiremock

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.