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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We at Visa, dream of a future where it's easy to pay and be paid. Across the planet. Where ever. Whenever. Securely. Easily. We have a great toolbox of leadership technologies including Cybersource and Authorize.net. Together, we are building leading edge full-service Payment Management solutions combining global payment processing, fraud management and payment security systems. We are looking for a talented Sr. Test Engineer to join our team!

The Staff Software Test Engineer will play a pivotal role in our Merchant & Acquiring Processing department. In this mission critical role, it's an opportunity to design and implement test solutions across all testing phases, establish and follow quality gates and deliver high quality products driving business value working in an agile environment. The responsibilities also include gathering, clarifying & influencing product requirements, design and architecture for testability, Communicate & Collaborate with other groups within the organization on various aspects of testing. It is an opportunity to learn, lead and work on technologies for all Merchant & Acquiring Processing applications.

Essential Functions: 

• Expertise in API and UI functional, automation, performance and security testing along with familiarity of industry wide tools such as RestAssured, SOAP, Mocha, Cai, Cucumber, Selenium, etc.
• Expertise working on Java based automation framework, designing and building tools/utilities, test data management and improving overall testing effectiveness
• Expertise writing and executing detailed test plans, test design & test cases covering feature, integration, regression, certification, system level testing as well as release validation in production.
• Must have experience in debugging and troubleshooting in Linux/Unix/Container based application servers such as Tomcat, VertX, WebSphere, Docker, Kubernetes environments.
• Must have experience in a technical capacity of quality methodology/release process/testing techniques to provide guidance to junior team members as required.
• Must have experience testing in an AGILE environment and should have exposure to testing environment migration, DB and infrastructure/system upgrades.
• Must have expert level knowledge and skills in Continuous Integration, Code/Test coverage and working in different testing methodologies.
• Experience working with RDMBS and NoSQL based databases.
• Adaptability, Flexibility of working across different types of projects, Strong communications and sense of ownership and driver ship is required working across teams.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 2 years with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD) in Computer science, software engineering or related field.
• Hands on expertise in test planning, test scenarios creation, test data creation and executing test cases as well as preparing test data based on the business scenarios and creating tools and scripts to manufacture test data
• Ability to understand complex enterprise level systems, various integration points, decent understanding of all networking layers, good understanding of software development lifecycle and processes.
• Strong understanding, knowledge & hands-on experience with latest technology stack.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 8+ years of experience with a Bachelor degree.
• 5+ years of experience working in technology industry with experience in coding and testing applications.
• 5+ years of strong technical competency and experience with web applications, web services, Java, JavaScript, J2EE, XML, unit-testing, shell-scripting and RDBMS is a must.
• 5+ years of experience working with UI/UX automation with Selenium, multi-browser testing.
• Expertise working on Java based automation framework, designing and building tools/utilities to improve testing effectiveness.
• Expertise with CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, TestNg & other tools.
• Expertise with unit testing, test-driven development, security and performance testing.
• Adaptability, Flexibility of working across different types of projects, Strong communications and sense of ownership and driver ship is required working across teams.
• Must be self-motivated with ability to work in a fast paced but high-quality delivery model.
• Leadership in driving large-scale projects with multiple cross-functional and cross-location teams and stakeholders, updating quality status, identifying and mitigating risk.  

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.