Sr. Manager, Software Engineering in Test

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

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:

Visa seeks a Senior Manager to join the Treasury Test Engineering team, a part of the Payments Products Development team. The candidate for this position will be responsible for testing system infrastructure solutions for business critical high visibility projects, as well as leading a team in doing so. This position is based in Austin, Texas. The role requires a firm understanding of modern software development and testing practices within an Agile methodology. A heavy emphasis is place on test automation, including leveraging generative AI tools to build, maintain and conduct test automation. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic leader, excellent communicator, have demonstrable expertise in software test engineering, and above all be customer and team focused. The candidate will work closely with the Treasury business product group, peers in the development teams and other test engineering teams as well as senior management and other groups across the organization. The candidate will be extensively involved in both team management and work supervision, as well as hands-on activities including analyzing business requirements and design documents, development of Test Plans, Test Design and Test cases, design walk-throughs, testing, building and maintaining automated test solutions for multiple applications on a variety of technology stacks, and coordinating with other application teams for integration/interface testing.

Essential Functions:

• Develop and nurture team of software test engineers by motivating and mentoring, and assist in hiring critical talent.
• Provide guidance to software test engineers on their daily tasks including design, coding/testing as needed.
• Contribute to code and load quality initiatives.  Ensure adherence to coding standards including code reviews.
• Instill best practices for software testing, automation, and documentation. Ensure software design and functionality meets requirements, and deliver high quality work on tight schedules.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve development and test processes.
• Project management: prioritization, planning of projects and features, stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments.
• Experience with one or more testing frameworks, including but not limited to TestNG, Cucumber, JUnit, or NUnit.
• Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C#, C/C++, Java, JavaScript or Go.
• Strong Unix skills, proficient with at least one shell and one high-level scripting language (bash, Python, Ruby) .
• Experience building and testing applications, RESTful services, or microservices on a modern technology stack.
• 3+ years software development and test experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication ability.
• Ability to work well within a globally distributed team, in a high performance organization.

**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 office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

•8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD


Preferred Qualifications:
•9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
•Deep understanding of end to end software development lifecycle in a team, including version control, build process, testing, and code release.
•Good working knowledge of program and project management methodologies and the role of technology resources in support of those methodologies
•Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. 
•Familiarity with relational database design and implementation.
•Familiarity with Jenkins, git, and/or other source control and CI/CD technologies.
•Familiarity with Selenium, Cucumber, Robot Framework, QuickTest Pro, and/or other automation tools

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 a new hire into this position is 143,200.00 to 207,800.00 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.