Staff 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. 

Who are we looking for? You! We are looking for candidates with strong experience in test designing, test engineering and automation, as well as test tools development and maintenance. You will be part of a talented Test Engineering (TE) Team that works on mission-critical payment applications and be responsible for testing the code with automation or manual tests, while also designing, developing, or enhancing test tools and utilizing the same to test the application.

As a Test Engineer, you will be involved in value-based exploratory testing in addition to regular systematic functional and regression testing, risk identification, and production deployment/support. In order to retain the quick time-to-market of different product platforms, you should be able to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment balancing aggressive development schedules with the need for quality software. You should be able to provide innovative approaches to coordinate multi-region testing allowing more condensed testing schedules will be within daily activities You will help define and establish process change, innovation, code quality improvements, and tools, to enable rapid development, testing and deployment and help detect code quality issues using a shift-left approach. The ideal candidate should be capable of working in all phases of SDLC (i.e. development and testing) and have a demonstrated history of thinking creatively, with a solution oriented, can-do, mindset and must demonstrate a strong desire to create and sustain an enterprise-wide environment that fosters ownership, accountability, quality, commitment and innovation.

Besides testing, you have the desire and willingness to be involved in the implementation of industry standard best practices to design and develop highly capable, bug-free tools, test automation frameworks and solutions by following secure SDLC standards. You can come up with new ideas, gather and elaborate requirements, contribute to solution selection, be responsible for the design, configuration, development and testing of the solution, finally ensuring highest quality documentation for each solution developed. The successful candidate should be a quick learner, be responsible for solving complex problems and taking a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.

In your role as a Staff Software Engineer, you will function as a technical specialist and work independently with guidance only in the most complex situations. You will provide guidance to less-experienced / junior team members, review and evaluate Test Plan / Test Designs / Test Matrix / Test Scenarios / Test Cases etc. to ensure we add value and deliver the highest-quality services and products to our clients. At the same time, you will actively engage, mentor, enable and inspire junior Test Engineers to design, develop and implement world-class products (aka test tools and frameworks) which can be used to the improve operational efficiency of the VIP Test Engineering Team.

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