Software Engineer SDET

Job description

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

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.

The Work itself:

• Cultivate, support and promote an organizational culture that provides for high performance, high morale, collaboration and innovation.
• Analyze requirements, challenge them, and devise comprehensive test plan.
• Design, create, execute and report on Functional/E2E tests against multiple applications, services and projects by building highly scalable automation solutions.
• Create, modify and improve automated test suites and frameworks.
• Create systems and test documentation per organizational standards.
• Ensure compliance with audit and security requirements for all testing activities.
• Actively seek opportunities to evolve and improve the existing standards and practices to improve efficiency.
• Identify and document software/system defects in a clear, timely manner.
• Build partnerships with product management to ensure that the products being built deliver real value
• Assume responsibility for following up and ensuring identified defects are resolved and validated.
• Identify and troubleshoot system, integration or operability issues working with other departments as needed.
• Coordinate and collaborate with our globally distributed team.

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates basic knowledge and asks questions about project requirements.
• Reviews and asks questions about solution strategies that improve the design and functionality of a payment product feature.
• Applies standard processes on the use of front-end programming languages (e.g. HTML, C++, Java) to write code that fulfills website modification requests and technical requirements, under close guidance.
• Works under close guidance from others to support the piloting of new technology capabilities and features that enhance the user website experience across e-commerce products.
• Identifies and advances bugs that threaten website functionality

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
• Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
• Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java, C#, C++)
• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams
• We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.

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

Visa will accept applications for this role until at least January 31, 2026.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Minimum of 6 months of work experience or a Bachelor’s Degree
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Cybersecurity, Business or a related field, graduating August 2024 - August 2025
• Robust programming skills, with strong technical competency in languages such as Java and JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience in API automation frameworks and technologies like Karate/ RestAssured or similar
• Hands-on experience on UI Test automation tools like Cypress/ Selenium/Playwright or similar.
• Strong technical knowledge with web applications and web services standards and related technologies (XML, JSON, REST, SOAP)
• Experience in SQL
• Good understanding and knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
• Strong understanding of Agile, scrum and Quality Assurance processes and methodologies
• Experience with Test management tools like Jira, ALM, SharePoint, Confluence wiki.
• Understanding of various test and development methodologies such as TDD, BDD
• Experience in the fintech domain and understanding ISO 8583/ISO 20022 standards
• General business knowledge of EFT, Debit and Transaction Processing
• Tandem/Connex Advantage, ATM experience is a plus
• Understanding of GenAI is a plus

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY:  The estimated salary range for this position is $83,100 to $129,300 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).  Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.