Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant Level (Test Engineering) - job 1 of 2

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

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.  

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for a versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineer at the Senior Consultant level to join the Treasury Test Engineering team, a part of the Payments Products Development team. As a Software Engineer in Test, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional test engineering team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.   

Essential Functions:

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability 
• Collaborate multi-functionally to create test artifacts and develop best-in-class teat automation solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 
• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 
• Test robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions. 
• 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 
• Work directly with product owners to gather and refine requirements across products, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across the organization.
• Provide domain expertise on the development of technical documentation of solutions and contributes to standard processes in technical documentation as needed.
• Play a key role in the development and delivery of new features across products from end-to-end.
• Lead test automation initiatives including identification of appropriate test framework, building test tools to improve code quality and application performance.
• Lead cross-functional teams in integration test efforts.
• Mentor junior staff and provide guidance to all internal and external testing initiatives.
• Design and develop test plans and functional test cases from business requirements and conceptual documents.
• Lead test design/plan review sessions with peers and other stakeholders.
• Provide estimates on scope and scale of effort required to test changes.
• Setup, configure, and maintain test environments.
• Execute test cases, analyze and report test results to project team.
• Ensure delivery of a high quality product meeting all requirements within the scheduled timeframe.

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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

Basic Qualifications:
8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience..

Preferred Qualifications:
9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
13+ years relevant work experience with functional and non-functional testing of applications.
Experience in SDLC methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Iterative/Increment)
Experience with one or more automation tools, including but not limited to: Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Robot Framework, Playwright, or similar.
Familiarity with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or other source control and CI/CD technologies
Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C#, C/C++, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript or Python
Experience with one or more testing frameworks, including but not limited to TestNG, Cucumber, JUnit, or Robot Framework
Experience with containerization or virtualization tools
Experience leveraging Generative AI to work with code, and building tools using Generative AI to assist with test automation and the software testing process more generally
Excellent oral and written communications skills
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

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 one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
Builder: Experience building and deploying modern test automation suites with quality and scalability
Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Generative AI, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Development, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 143,200.00 to 207,800.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.