Software Test Engineer - Sr. Consultant level @ Visa Inc

We at Visa, dream of a future where its easy to pay and be paid. Across the planet. Where ever. Whenever. Securely. Easily. We have a great toolbox of leadership technologies including Cybersource and Authorize.net. Together, we are building leading edge full-service Payment Management solutions combining global payment processing, fraud management and payment security systems. We are looking for a talented Software Test Engineer - Sr. Consultant to join our team!

The Software Test Engineer - Sr. Consultant will play a pivotal role in our Merchant & Acquiring Processing department. In this mission critical role, its an opportunity to design and implement test solutions and taking it to the production with high quality completing all testing phases, following an agile methodology. The responsibilities also include gathering and clarifying requirements, facilitating communication with other groups within the organization, and guiding architectural decisions. It is an opportunity to learn, lead and work on technologies for all Merchant & Acquiring Processing applications.

Responsibilities include

• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using functional programming paradigm

• Participate in business requirements review and build functional & technical design documentation

• Design and implement testing procedures for: APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems

• Participate in design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.

• Work across the team to ensure the team is predictable, productive, and delivering high quality.

• Review code and accountability for teams development activities

• Participate in proof of concepts and other technical evaluations of new technologies

• Responsible for leading and implementing the in-sprint or early Test Automation in projects.

• Responsible for guiding technical discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences

• Responsible for designing and implementing test automation strategies for medium-scale to complex projects.

• Accountable for implementing Continuous testing strategies in projects.

Basic Qualifications

• You have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field and 10+ years of Software Test Engineering Experience or a Masters with 8+ years of Software Testing Experience.

• You have a proven track record of having led and delivered complex projects where complexity is a function of a combination of these factors domain knowledge, distributed architecture, technical stack, influencing and collaborating with multiple technology partners and business partners

• You have proven experience as a technical leader with ability to understand the requirements and independently, architect, design and build the high quality large scale Test Automation Framework and Tools.

• You have proven experience of managing an engineering team of 3-5 people

• You are a Java expert (core Java) and you have good knowledge on REST APIs, JSON and exposure to container based technologies.

• You have strong experience with Agile development incorporating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, utilizing technologies such as GIT, Maven, Jenkins and Sonar

• You have strong experience with shift left practices.

• You have exposure to performance testing.

• Exposure to Information Security.

• You have the passion to work with people and help mentor your team to reach new heights.

• Experience in payments and financial services Risk, Payments ecosystems and payment processing flows

• Strong communication skills, oral and written - able to engender trust and respect of peers and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications :

• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or 8 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+years of experience with a PhD

• Experience in commercial software development & testing on Unix/Linux environment.

• Understanding of architecture and operations of highly available and scalable applications.

• You have expertise of Core Java, Java Script, REST and container based technologies.

• You have experience in consumer facing application testing experience.

• Proven track record of responsibilities as a technical lead.

• You have experience architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind

• You have amazing work ethics that will help us all work extremely well together

• You have the passion to understanding people and to always striving to improve our products and services

• Experienced in improving QA efficiency by enforcing in-sprint automation and implementing CI/CD

• Capable of multitasking on a number of priorities and delivering results in a fast paced, dynamic environment

• Able to architect & build framework from scratch

• Experience with Test Case Management related tools (HP Quality Center/ALM, Zephyr, qTest, Testcollab, etc.)