Staff SW Test Engineer

We are looking for versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineer who embraces 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. Essential Functions: Perform quality assurance testing inclusive of unit, systems, integration and regression testing, and development of automated test scripts to be used to automate regression testing and managing the overall test artifacts and test execution Test planning and Test strategy development using industry best practices Log software defects in the Visa standard defect tracking tool and work with development team on defect resolution Manage QA environments and perform application deployment and troubleshooting Participate in design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems Participate in code reviews with team members. Provide support to User Acceptance Testing in terms of data set up and support activities. Perform walkthrough of QA test results with business partners on need base Develop new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met Foster partnerships with upstream and downstream teams including system analysts, architects, developers, and product owners or clients to ensure alignment and consistency in reducing product risk throughout the SDLC. Work with Project managers to provide QA estimates, schedule planning and providing status updates Work collaboratively with other QA teams for integration testing activities Able to contribute to other activities like Development and CICD as per team needs. Basic Qualifications 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or at least 4 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience. Preferred Qualifications 5 or more years of software testing, design, architecture, and development experience. Capable to leverage DevOps techniques and practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Test Automation, Build Automation and Test Driven. Strong Experience in using software automation tools such as Selenium/Playwright, Junit, TestNG, Cucumber, Postman, Hands on experience in Git, Jenkins, Cloud Deployment tools, Jira and Maven. Hands on experience in Core Java, Microservices, Hibernate, REST APIs. Experience in writing self-validating code using unit tests or following TDD. Development to enable the rapid delivery of working code utilizing tools like Jenkins, Maven, Chef, Git and Docker. Experience in Agile methodology will be a plus. Strong leadership qualities like collaboration, communication etc. Hands on experience with GenAI tools like ChatGPT, CoPilot etc. will be a plus.