Software Engineer in Test (Java)

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

Senior QA Engineer

The details:

The Software Engineer in Test 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 QA Engineers, 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.

Preferred Experience:

• 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.

This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice. UK/Netherlands only.

Qualifications

QA engineers should hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field
Strong coding and scripting ability in Java and/or Ruby
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.