Software Test Engineer

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

Purpose of Role 

A Test Engineer takes ownership of testing and ensures that the product is delivered to customers with a high level of quality through applying leading edge testing and quality enhancement processes. 

A Test Engineer will have the freedom to plan and execute testing in the way that suits them and the team, within some broad boundaries. They will find the most effective way to reduce risk, with a focus on ensuring the quality of the product is visible. They will maintain active interaction with other stakeholders to ensure that not only is the solution bug free, but additional requirements and needs are explored. 

In our Agile teams, we closely collaborate to deliver business value and maintain a culture of trust, respect, and teamwork. Working with the developers, business analyst, product owner, and engineering team lead, a Test Engineer will be the independent test expert with versatile skills to become a cross-functional team member. As an integral part of the development team, they will lead a variety of tasks which includes manual testing as well as building and maintaining test automation suite.

As part of the wider QA Team, a Test Engineer will share knowledge and contribute to initiatives identified by the business. Continuous learning and improvement will be a key to success in this role, with opportunities for internal development and leadership within the organization. 

As part of this role, you will: 

• Create test scenarios, execute, and record test results
• Consider and test functional and non-functional requirements 
• Record defects and clearly communicate with team
• Contribute and grow the test automation suite
• Learn Visa Spend Clarity domain concepts 
• Share knowledge with other team members 
• Practice Agile methodology and contribute to improving team processes 
• Participate in active learning with an open mind 

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 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)
• 2-5 years’ testing experience in professional software development environment
• Tertiary or industry qualified with appropriate certifications
• 2+ years in an Agile scrum or Kanban environment
• Technical experience in SQL, HTML and C# 
• Experience with testing web services and APIs 
• Ability to add/update automated functional and regression tests in existing test framework
• Ability to build, maintain and grow test automation suite, including automated testing of API and Web UI using tools such as C#, Selenium WebDriver, SpecFlow, Appium, and GitHub 
• Experience using defect management and documentation tools such as JIRA and Confluence 
• Good team collaboration skills and communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Self-motivation and enthusiasm
• Attention to detail and analytical ability
• Open mind to learning skills

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.