Sr. SW Engineer (SDET)
- Full-time
- Job Family Group: Technology and Operations
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.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
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 centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
The Opportunity:
This position is ideal for an engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications that provide an excellent user experience. They will be an integral part of the Payment Products Development team, focusing on the design and development of software solutions that leverage data to address business challenges. They will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including proof of concepts, design, documentation, development, and testing of new functionality. They should demonstrate adaptability and readiness to change tasks according to the team's requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and implement Test Automation solutions.
- Work iteratively on the development of new products, starting with quick POCs and converting ideas into real products.
- Design and develop mission-critical systems, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high-quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations, while applying the latest available tools and technology.
- Develop code to ensure deliverables are on time, within budget, and maintain high code quality standards.
- Demonstrate a passion for delivering zero-defect code and be responsible for ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed the prescribed defect Service Level Agreement (SLA).
- Coordinate Continuous Integration activities, testing automation frameworks, and other related tasks in addition to contributing to core product code.
- Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms, and effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
- Perform other tasks related to R&D, data governance, system infrastructure, and other cross-team functions as needed.
**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.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g., Masters) in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Science, or a related discipline.
- 4 or more years of experience in building large-scale applications using open-source technologies.
- Extensive experience in software development, particularly in full stack projects, demonstrating adherence to standard development best practices.
- Proficiency in Java and Selenium programming.
- Strong knowledge Cucumber, TESTNG, Rest Assured API Automation
- Proficiency in working with SQL, RDBMS and In-Memory Databases.
- Strong knowledge of API
- Familiarity with version control systems, specifically Git.
- Solid knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems and Shell Scripting.
- Awareness of and experience with software design patterns.
- Experience working within an Agile and Test-Driven Development environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with a proactive and self-motivated approach to improving existing processes to enable faster iterations.
- Demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, with a keen attention to detail.
- Team-oriented, energetic, and collaborative approach to work, coupled with a diplomatic and adaptable style.
- Experience with Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Hive for large-scale data processing and data transformation
- Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools like Tableau, or other similar programs.
- Experience with containerization and cloud technologies are advantageous
- Familiarity with AI concepts and tools, including GitHub Copilot for code development
- Exposure to AI/ML development is an added advantage
- Strategic thinker with good business acumen to orient software engineering to the business needs of internal and external clients.
- Previous exposure to financial services is a plus, but not required.
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.