Associate SDET

Company Description

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.

Job Description

The SDET role is an ambassador of quality. You’ll be joining one of our Agile Product squads which consist of a Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineers and fellow SDETs, reporting into a Tribe QA Engineering Manager. You will play a key role in ensuring the team delivers efficient, effective and scalable solutions for a wide range of problems. You will design, develop, build and maintain QA solutions and processes. You will also coach and guide all in the team on QA best practices.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. 

Qualifications

• Has strong experience of API testing and/or contract testing
• Has strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines
• Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions (ideally in a micro services environment) across large cloud-native architectures
• Has played a major role in designing, developing and evolving the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions
• Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile
• Has an understanding of Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability
• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services
• Strong coding and scripting ability in Java
• Excellent communication skills: written & verbal
• The ability to technically analyse a problem and a solution and recognise the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work
• A sound understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD
• The ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to determine appropriate acceptance criteria for both business and technical needs
• Ability to make tactical as well as strategic decisions and recommendations based on incomplete or ambiguous information
• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
• Strong knowledge of Docker and AWS (public cloud)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and Kafka is desirable
• Experience with mocking tools such as Wiremock

Additional Information

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 employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.