Sr. SW Engineer (SDET, 4 -7 years of experience, API testing, Test Automation Framework)

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.

Visa 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.  

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.   

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and debugging skills, especially in distributed and cloud-native systems.
• Ability to lead test strategy and automation efforts across multiple cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• A mindset focused on quality, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to operate in agile development environments with iterative release cycles.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4-6 years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, or software development.
• Strong proficiency in automated testing frameworks such as Selenium or similar.
• Expert-level programming skills in one or more languages: Python, Java, C#, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience designing automation frameworks (UI, API, and integration) and establishing scalable test architecture.
• Deep understanding of testing methodologies (functional, non-functional, performance, security, regression, compatibility, and integration testing).
• Hands-on experience with API testing tools (Postman, REST Assured, Supertest, etc.).
• Strong CI/CD experience with systems like GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Strong SQL and data validation skills
• Proficient with version control systems, branching strategies, and code review processes (Git-based workflows).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in corporate legal, compliance, e-discovery, contract lifecycle management (CLM), or regulatory tech environments.
• Experience implementing test strategies for AI/ML-driven or document-processing solutions.
• Proficiency with performance testing tools (JMeter, k6, Locust).
• Experience with security and privacy testing, including authentication flows, access controls, and data compliance (GDPR, SOX, ISO, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers, influence test strategy, and improve engineering excellence practices

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.