Senior SW Test Engineer

Visa

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Foster City, CA
Salary
$109,700–$170,200 / yr
Posted
27 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $170k
This role $140k
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This role pays less than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $140,101–$200,212 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $140k versus about $170k for comparable roles.

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About Visa

Visa Inc. is the world''s largest payment network, enabling digital payments for consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments through its global processing network and branded card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Visa currently has 101 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $149,200–$238,700 across 96 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior SW Test Engineer

Sr. SW Test Engineer The Sr. SW Test Engineer joins the team building Open VisaNet, a next-generation payment processing platform designed for high scalability and fault tolerance on commodity hardware. This role involves developing test cases, executing tests, reporting defects, and collaborating with scrum teams to refine user stories and plan sprint work. The engineer will also partner with DevOps teams for continuous testing and environment setup while maintaining quality processes and automation scripts for functional and regression scenarios. Key technical skills include experience with Go, Scala, Erlang, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Aerospike, and Elasticsearch. Candidates should be proficient in Agile methodologies using Jira and Confluence, as well as tools like Postman, SOAP UI, Cucumber, Selenium, Gherkin, and Jenkins. The role addresses the challenge of moving from proprietary mainframe systems to a modern distributed microservices architecture for global transaction processing.

What you'll do

  • Develop test cases, execute tests, and report defects based on functional and business requirements.
  • Maintain and develop automated scripts for functional and regression testing scenarios.
  • Collaborate with DevOps teams to manage continuous testing and environment setup.
  • Participate in design discussions to provide input on product design and identify potential problems.
  • Establish quality processes to ensure software meets or exceeds defined quality expectations.
  • Perform API level testing using tools such as SOAP UI, Postman, and REST Client.
  • Execute automation scripts within Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines like Jenkins.
  • Ensure all testing activities remain compliant with company policies and audit requirements.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, or 5+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Minimum 3 years of hands-on development experience.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to work across teams.
  • Experience with Agile Methodologies and tools like Jira and Confluence.
  • Experience with Unit, Acceptance, Performance, Non-functional, Certification test lifecycles, and BDD/TDD methodology.
  • Experience testing software at the API level using SOAP UI, Postman, or REST Client.
  • Experience with testing frameworks such as Cucumber, Selenium, and Gherkin.
  • Knowledge of functional programming languages like Go Lang, Scala, or Erlang (preferred); experience with distributed systems and payment applications (preferred).

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