Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
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Job Description
Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centred on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
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The Opportunity:
We are looking for talented, curious, and energetic Software Engineers in Test (SDET) who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Visa SDET, you will be an integral part of a cross-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of cutting-edge payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.
The Work itself:
- Design, code and test systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings.
- Actively contribute to product quality improvements, value added service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads.
- Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions.
- Act as a testing expert for your squad, advising on and implementing best in class test automation allied to creative testing approaches that ensure high quality releases
- Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology
- Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities.
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 team), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
•Testing expert. Able to assess and communicate risk, adept at coming up with thoughtful, context driven testing approaches to facilitate high quality releases
•Hands-on experience in Test automation frameworks and technologies like RestAssured, TestNG
•Expertise in various testing methodologies
•Solid experience in tools like Gatling, JMeter, SoapUI, Postman / Any REST Client
•Knowledge of back-end Java code development or equivalent language
•Ability to develop and utilize APIs
•Knowledge of database software
•Knowledge of systems integration
•Knowledge of data structures
•Strong experience in software automation methodologies and CI/CD pipelines
•Hands-on experience in Spring Framework
•Hands on experience in distributed architecture & data streaming approaches like Kafka
•Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, problem solving and complexity analysis
•Strong designing, analytical, programming & communication skills
•Experience with web services standards and related technologies
•Demonstrable experience utilizing object-oriented patterns and design best practices
•Experience working with a variety of Application Servers and Databases such as Tomcat and Oracle
•Knowledge in micro services and hands-on experience on container platforms like Kuber-netes, Docker and OpenShift
•Knowledge on Performance analysis tools like Riverbed and Monitoring tools like Splunk and Opera
•Experience developing, deploying and testing Cloud applications eg AWS, GCP
•Some experience in front end or full stack would be useful - javaScript, React etc
The Skills You Bring:
Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale.
Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, “hacking” beyond traditional solutions.
Language Expertise: Expertise in Java
Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with qual-ity, scalability and testability.
Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, NoSQL, etc.
Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams
**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics or knowledge. For instance, we have awesome team members who are really focused on building scal-able systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications, or Java before join-ing Visa.
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.