SW Engineer in Test (Payments) – SDET

Company Overview

Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments to electronic payments. We operate one of the world's most advanced processing networks — VisaNet — that is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second, with fraud protection for consumers and assured payment security for merchants.

Position Summary

The Payment Products Development (PPD) – Authorization Services Test Engineering (aka VIP TE) team supports the core VisaNet Integrated Payment (VIP) System which is the heart of making Visa the best way to pay and be paid for everyone, everywhere. The team handles worldwide Business Enhancement Releases, quarterly, monthly and weekly projects, as well as multiyear infrastructure projects that are deployed onto an IBM mainframe application running on z/TPF (z/Transaction Processing Facility). We also support and work with other peer Test Engineering organizations to support integration, downstream and end-to-end testing to ensure no defects adversely affect the VIP systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Test Products Development / Test Tools Development
• Ideate and use innovative approaches to build and implement scalable, reusable test automation frameworks / new test infrastructure, improve existing test infrastructure to increase efficiency and productivity in test case generation, test coverage, test execution, problem detection and reporting
• Strong programming skills and willingness to code using mainframe-based programming languages (such as REXX, Assembler etc.) and open-source object-oriented programming languages, web technologies, microservices etc., databases (e.g. IBM DB2) and SQL queries etc., depending on departmental needs
• Contribute to all phases of SDLC during Test Tools development (Test Automation)
• Be ready to explore and use API testing software such as SOA suite, SOAP UI, Postman, REST Client etc., Selenium or similar software testing framework, automation testing tools such as TestNG, JSON and XML Parsers, Cucumber etc., CI/CD though Jenkins or similar, GitHub and other Tools such as JIRA etc.
• Marshall industry standard coding, design patterns, testing and best practices within Visa
• Proactively assess emerging technologies and evaluate the adoption thereof into the organization; Conduct POCs for technology and tools evaluation to ensure they are good fit for Visa’s requirements
• Mainframe Testing / Manual Testing
• Contribute to all phases of STLC; Design and develop comprehensive test plans, test designs and test cases from business requirements and conceptual documents to test Visa’s products and services; Efficiently execute the same across all functional areas, products, and solutions
• Test code manually as well as by using in-house test tools and automation suites running on mainframe VMs (Virtual Machines), desktop and web servers to be more efficient and effective
• Collaborate and work with Development, System Architecture and Product teams, as members of Waterfall or Agile teams, to address coding errors or design gaps
• Analyze and report test results clearly to project stakeholders for speedy resolution; Report project status, highlight risks and issues to Project Managers and TE Management; Provide solutions and options
• Adhere to standard processes, tools, and metrics to deliver large-scale projects from inception to conclusion that meet quantifiable business objectives
• Coordinate and support integration, end-to-end testing with peer Test Engineering groups to ensure seamless code releases

Technical Skills

Benefits

None specified

Preferred Qualifications

• Working experience in z/TPF (mainframe) and application development using REXX will be an added advantage
• Knowledge of ISO 8583, SOAP / XML, JSON etc. messages (if any) will be preferred

Equal Opportunity

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.

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