What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Test Engineer position at Visa?
The Senior 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.
Essential Functions
Strong coding ability in JavaScript/TypeScript
Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
Strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines
Strong communication skills: written & verbal
Strong understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD
Strong knowledge of Containerisation tools, such as Docker
Experience with AWS (public cloud)
Strong knowledge of Datadog
Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions, in a micro services environment, across large cloud-native architectures
Has designed, developed and evolved the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions
Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile
Comfortable challenging the status quo
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
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
Contract testing experience, ideally with Pact/Pactflow
Knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS)
Kafka experience.
Experience with mocking tools such as Wiremock
Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.