Sr. SW Test Engineer

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale— tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters— to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Visa is looking for Senior Software Test Engineers, who will help build Open Visa Net, Visa's next generation payment processing platform developed on Open Systems that would fuel growth in electronic payments globally and drive financial inclusion in many parts of the world.

Open Visa Net is the next generation Visa Net, will push the envelope of building highly scalable, secure, cost effective and distributed application on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Open Visa Net is one of Visa's key initiatives that will help Visa support in‑country processing solutions and provide Visa an opportunity to move away from proprietary mainframe type systems. It is built as a modern distributed architecture based on microservices with goals of five 9’s availability, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability and real‑time latency for largest scale transaction processing.

Open Visa Net leverages state of the art open‑software technologies to achieve these goals on commodity hardware, such as Go, Scala, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Aerospike, Elasticsearch, etc., and involves collaboration with an exceptional group of software engineers, systems performance engineers, security specialists, Dev Ops engineers, payment experts, infrastructure and solution architects.

Essential functions:

• Develop test cases, test execution and defect reporting throughout the software development life cycle by analysing functional and business requirements.
• Collaborate with scrum teams in refining user stories, planning sprint work, and executing test scenarios.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops teams for continuous testing and environment set‑up.
• Establish quality process in place to ensure the quality expectations are always met or exceeded.
• Maintain and/or develop test scripts to automate functional and regression test scenarios.
• Participate in design discussion to provide input on functional requirements, product design, and potential problems.
• Ensure to adhere to the company's software testing processes and policies and retain audit compliance while supporting end users during the testing cycle.
• Collaborate with cross‑site teams to ensure the quality assurance is performed in alignment with global initiatives and requirements.
• Also need to develop in‑depth knowledge and understanding of the systems you are responsible for as a Test Engineer.

This position is not eligible for immigration.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office; expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a bachelor's degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience.

• 3 or more years of work experience with a bachelor's degree OR more than 2 years of work experience with an advanced degree (e.g., masters, MBA, JD, MD).
• Minimum 3 years hands‑on development experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to work well across teams.
• Experience with agile methodologies, tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with unit, acceptance, performance, non‑functional test, certification test lifecycle, BDD/TDD methodology.
• Experience testing software at API level using SOAP‑UI, Postman, REST Client, etc.
• Experience working with testing frameworks such as Cucumber, Selenium, Gherkin, etc.
• Good knowledge of executing automation scripts on continuous integration (CI) tool like Jenkins.
• Knowledge of functional programming languages such as Go, Scala,…