Sr. Software Engineer - Test Engineering (Hybrid/Onsite)

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

What do we do? The Network Processing (NP) – Test Engineering (TE) team supports the VisaNet Integrated Payment (VIP) System by delivering quality services and solutions using best-in-class processes, methodologies, and technology with our worldwide workforce. We are an integral part of Visa that support the worldwide Business Releases, quarterly, monthly and weekly projects, maintenance work, as well as multiyear infrastructure projects that introduce new programming logic via IBM High Level Assembler (HLASM) and Object Oriented code (C++) onto an IBM mainframe application that runs on zTPF (Transaction Processing Facility) along with JSON, SOAP and XML based APIs and cryptography. We also support and work with other peer Test Engineering organizations to support integration, downstream and end-to-end testing to ensure no defects adversely affect the VIP production systems.

The VIP Test Engineering team is committed to leveraging innovative technology solutions to enhance software quality and accelerate the time-to-market of different product platforms. We expect 99.99999% stability and availability of our authorization system that processes billions of transactions from across the world. 

Why us?  Visa is all about helping people around the world reach their ‘everywhere’ – the place
where their personal, professional and financial goals intersect. If you have the ambition, focus and drive, and are interested in joining a global team focused on changing the way the world pays and is paid, you'll find your ‘everywhere’ at Visa.

The Sr Software Engineer position will be an individual contributor role and will report to Visa's Network Processing – VIP (Authorization Services) Test Engineering Management at the Atlanta,GA location.

The Work itself: 

The Test Engineering team in VisaNet Integrated Payment (VIP) delivers quality services and solutions using best-in-class processes, methodologies, and technology with our worldwide workforce. We are an integral part of delivering projects that support the World Wide Business Releases quarterly, monthly and weekly projects and maintenance work, as well as multiyear infrastructure projects that introduce new programming logic via, C++ and Object Oriented code. We also support and work with other peer Test Engineering organizations on integration, downstream testing to ensure no defects affects production processes.

The Payment Products Test Engineering team is committed in leveraging innovative technologies to enhance software quality and to accelerate time-to-market. We test approximately 800 to 1000 changes to our systems in any given year while collaboratively maintaining a better than 99.7 percent fail safe percentage to an authorization system that supports up to 65,000 transactions per second. Visa has one of the most visible and most used comprehensive payment systems in the world. It is an exciting time for any professional to join the Payment Products Test Engineering team.

The Sr. Software Engineer in Test, Payment Products Test Engineering, will be based in Atlanta, GA port to Visa's Payment Products Test Engineering Management based in Austin. As the Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will test software applications and features using test suites and scripts, perform anomaly reporting, software analysis, develop automated software test packages using various technologies, perform functional and regression testing, apply black box and white box testing techniques and conduct software development data validation functional and performance testing.

Essential Functions

• Execute software testing request on a regular / need basis, ensuring the highest quality in application software testing.

• Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to testing challenges and test findings, work in collaboration with others to analyze issues discovered in testing / testing gap introduced issues.

• Discuss and align on test / UAT requirement with project / product team / development team and create test plan.

• Create, develop, and maintain test case and test suites automation.

• Develop applications for test engine