Senior Director

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

The Sr. Director, Platform and Reliability Test Engineering is responsible for all aspects of managing and leading multiple test engineering teams in diverse worldwide locations, drawing from personal Test Engineering knowledge, expertise, and innovation of Test processes. This position will be responsible for critical communications with cross-functional teams including Program and Project Managers, Product Development managers from both Development and Test Engineering organizations, and Service Delivery and Operations managers on cross-project coordination and implementation of corporate Development and Test Engineering initiatives. This role will report to the Sr. Director of Platform and Reliability Engineering in Foster City, USA and will work in close collaboration with other resource managers in Singapore, Denver and Foster City.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
a) 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD
b) 5+ years of experience in a management role
c) Proven competence in cost center and profit center management
d) Competency in directing entire project lifecycle with emphasis on financials, budget controls, and successful implementation
e) Proficiency in a technical capacity in order to provide guidance and mentorship

Preferred Qualifications:
a) 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience
c) Self-starter who can communicate with a deep understanding of the company needs and enable people to move forward through complexity
d) Proven ability to create processes and implement them to drive top line results
e) Self-driven with strong leadership skills and demonstrated cross-functional competence, having led/coordinated teams across functional test engineering teams distributed across multiple geographical locations
f) A clear record of strategic thinking, sound judgment and superior problem solving in the area of test engineering
g) Flexible and creative thinker with strong execution skills, generate out-of-the-box solutions, manage ambiguity, anticipate the impact of decisions/initiatives and able to move seamlessly from high level concepts to details
h) Team/Service-orientation which promotes self-reliance, personal discipline, and empowerment of individual contributors
i) Very strong knowledge of the software quality assurance and testing processes and methodologies using modern techniques, and experienced in test and process automation
j) Knowledge and experience testing in an AGILE development methodology is a HUGE PLUS
k) Experience in application performance tools and application security related testing knowledge is a plus

Additional Information

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 employ