Senior Software Test Engineer

Job Description

As the world’s leader in digital payments technology, Visa’s mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment platform - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

Cross-border remittances and new business models (e.g., gig economy) require the ability to deploy rapid, frequent payouts. We are building a Technology Platform that will enable fast and ubiquitous push payments across a range of domestic and cross border use cases aiming to capture significant revenue opportunity across P2P, B2SB, and B2C flows and value-added services. Built on the latest standards/tech stack and providing open APIs, this platform will help drive innovation in the entire ecosystem.

We value creative and driven individuals who love to own their products, and design and implement solutions that create a seamless experience for consumers and clients. Our developers work across the stack, and are experts in service oriented architectures and technologies such as Java 8, Spring, Oracle, React JS, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Kubernetes and Docker.

As we embark on the journey to enhance the Visa Direct Payout Services technology platforms, we are looking for a Senior Software Test Engineer who can participate in the detailed design and development activities for this product build.

The role involves extensive hands-on activities. Here are key job responsibilities:

· Understand the Payments industry and where Visa Direct Payout Services fits in the payment’s ecosystem

· Understand the business initiatives and their importance to the growth of Visa Direct Payout Services.

· Develop a good understanding of the Visa Direct Payout Services technology

· Collaborate with product owners and technical staff globally to define requirements for new features and enhancements to the platform.

· Collaborate and communicate effectively within the team as well as across multiple teams and stakeholders.

· Provide QA input into delivery of features and stories – estimation and sizing.

· Question and think outside of acceptance criteria to identify exception scenarios, error states, etc.

· Take on leadership responsibilities and influence the direction of the testing and automation efforts.

· Collaborate with QA Engineers from various locations and ensure smooth delivery of releases.

· Ability to identify and manage risks at all stages of the project.

· Adherence to practices such as test coverage, open defect counts, continuous integration, code reviews, code quality and shift left practices.

· Stay up to date with new testing approaches, tools, technologies, and test strategies.

· Drive improvements in processes and frameworks across the team.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications
· Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 4+ years of Software Test Engineering Experience or a Masters with a minimum of 3+ years of Software Test Engineering Experience.

· Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.

· Understanding of generative AI models and tools, such as GPT, Llama, and Anthropic etc., and using MCP (Model Context Protocol)

· Familiarity with GenAI tools such as GitHub copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot for Microsoft 365, and other relevant platforms

· Experience in Rest API testing, performance testing basics and security/authentication.

· Proficiency in Java 8+ (Core Java, Collection Framework, JDBC, Functional Programming).

· Experience with automation testing tools to automate Asynchornous and Synchronous based systems such as RestAssured, TestNG, JSON and XML Parsers, Jenkins, Cucumber/Karate and Github.

· Proficiency in usage of SQL queries and stored procedures.

· Proven ability to handle multiple tasks or projects.

· Exposure to performance testing tools like JMeter/LoadRunner and security testing is a plus.

· Knowledge on containerization tools like Docker/Kubernetes is a plus.

· Experience in the Payment domain is a plus