Sr. Software Engineer - SDET

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.   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: 

The Debit Processing Solutions team seeks a talented Sr Software Engineer with strong critical thinking and analytical skills, who is curious, passionate about technology, and eager to solve complex challenges. As a Visa Software Engineer, 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. Your role involves designing solutions, devising test strategies and cases, crafting code for test suite automation, enhancing our existing Test Framework, and performing frequent check-ins for continuous integration. You should exhibit expertise in writing optimized and maintainable code, along with demonstrating strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

This position necessitates a blend of technical prowess in both software development and testing, coupled with robust analytical skills to comprehend and evaluate requirements, devise the best testing strategies, and adeptly tackle and rectify issues. Your input will be crucial in sustaining the dependability of our applications and guaranteeing the provision of top-notch software solutions to our clients.

This role provides the chance to operate in a vibrant, cooperative setting and have a substantial influence on our product quality and customer contentment. We're on the hunt for a proactive, detail-focused individual who is deeply committed to quality and harbors a passion for software testing and automation.

Yours Responsibilities will include:

• Cultivate, support and promote an organizational culture that provides for high performance, high morale, collaboration and innovation.
• Analyze requirements, challenge them, and devise comprehensive test plan.
• Design, create, execute and report on Functional/E2E tests against multiple applications, services and projects by building highly scalable automation solutions.
• Create, modify and improve automated test suites and frameworks.
• Create systems and test documentation per organizational standards.
• Ensure compliance with audit and security requirements for all testing activities.
• Actively seek opportunities to evolve and improve the existing standards and practices to improve efficiency.
• Identify and document software/system defects in a clear, timely manner.
• Build partnerships with product management to ensure that the products being built deliver real value
• Assume responsibility for following up and ensuring identified defects are resolved and validated.
• Identify and troubleshoot system, integration or operability issues working with other departments as needed.
• Coordinate and collaborate with our globally distributed team.

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 leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs. 

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.

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

Preferred Qualifications:
•3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
•4+ years of relevant experience in software industry.
•Robust programming skills, with strong technical competency in languages such as Java and JavaScript.
•Hands-on experience in API automation frameworks and technologies like Karate/ RestAssured or similar
•Hands-on experience on UI Test automation tools like Cypress/ Selenium/Playwright or similar.
•Strong technical knowledge with web applications and web services standards and related technologies (XML, JSON, REST, SOAP)
•Experience in SQL
•Good understanding and knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
•Strong understanding of Agile, scrum and Quality Assurance processes and methodologies
•Experience with Test management tools like Jira, ALM, SharePoint, Confluence wiki.
•Understanding of various test and development methodologies such as TDD, BDD
•Experience in the fintech domain and understanding ISO 8583/ISO 20022 standards
•General business knowledge of EFT, Debit and Transaction Processing
•Tandem/Connex Advantage, ATM experience is a plus
•Understanding of GenAI is a plus

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 100,000.00 to 141,250.00 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.

Visa is not offering relocation assistance for this role.