Sr. SW Test Engineer
Austin, TX

Job Description

Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind - making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa's sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

The successful candidate will be playing a key role in the VISA Network Processing Platform and Reliability Test Engineering team's automation and functional Testing stream. The candidate for this position will be responsible in delivering technical solutions for various application testing needs. This position will be involved in designing internal tools for necessary improvements for varied applications in scope.

Key Responsibilities:

* Perform quality assurance testing inclusive of unit, systems, integration and regression testing, and support the development of automated test scripts to be used to automate regression testing and managing the overall test artifacts and test execution
* Test planning and Test strategy development using industry best practices
* Log software defects in the Visa standard defect tracking tool and work with development team on defect resolution
* Manage QA environments and perform application deployment and troubleshooting
* Participate in design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems
* Participate in code reviews with team members.
* Provide support to User Acceptance Testing in terms of data set up and support activities.
* Perform walkthrough of QA test results with business partners on need base
* Developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
* Foster partnerships with upstream and downstream teams including system analysts, architects, developers, and product owners or clients to ensure alignment and consistency in reducing product risk throughout the SDLC.
* Work with Project managers to provide QA estimates, schedule planning and providing status updates
* Work collaboratively with other QA teams for integration testing activities

Education/Experience

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field required
* 5+ years relevant work experience with functional and non-functional testing of applications and experience with unit test and test automation with such tools as Selenium, and/or Cucumber, Ruby.
* Experience with automation tools like Junit, TestNG, Cucumber, Selenium RC/WebDriver
* Hands-on coding experience with any of the following Object Oriented Languages : Java/J2EE /C++
* Experience on Linux and UNIX Hands-on concepts including shell scripting
* A passion for developing test oriented frameworks, tools, utilities and simulators/harness, ensuring superb code quality and manage code governance
* Strong knowledge of database query tools like DB2, SQL, MySQL, MongoDB and ability to write and run complex queries for data validation
* Hands-on experience in testing and building automation suites for complex Web Based Applications.
* Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Quality Assurance processes and methodologies
* Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
* Candidate must be able to proficiently multi-task and be able to work independently or in a team environment
* Strong desire to learn new technical skills and grow with latest technical trends.

Desired Skillset

* Experience in payments or Banking Industries
* Prior Mainframe exposure is a plus
* Experience in managing CI/CD and Build tools : Git, SVN, CVS & Maven, Gradle & Jenkins, Bamboo
* Experience with Failure Injection techniques to validate the transactions based services against availability and scalability
* Strong Analytical and problem solving skills
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced collaborative environment
* Ability to work well within a globally distributed team in a high performance organization

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.