Staff SW Test Engineer( Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka)

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

This position is ideal for an engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems. You will be an integral part of the Payment Products Development team focusing on test automation. The candidate will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including POCs, design, documentation, and testing of new and existing functionality. Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team’s needs.

• Work closely with architects, business, and technical stakeholders to develop and maintain high quality testing frameworks that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology

• Develop systems and processes to refine efficiency of automated testing solutions

• Design and execute tests for applications and services

• Develop and maintain tools for automation tracking and reporting

• Review product requirements and specifications and recommend improvements to ensure product testability

• Recommend areas of applications and services where automation would be beneficial

• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms

• Mentor junior team members, develop departmental procedures and best practices standards

• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner

• Perform other tasks on R&D, data governance, system infrastructure, and other cross team functions on an as-needed basis

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 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
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters) in Computer Science/ Engineering, Information Science or a related discipline
• Minimum of 6 years of quality assurance experience (with a concentration in data centric initiatives), with demonstrated expertise in leveraging standard testing best practice methodologies
• Professional experience delivering test automation at the unit, business logic, and integration level testing
• Experience building and writing code with unit level tests for open-source Big Data eco-system (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka)
• Experience writing code in Core Java and SQL is a must
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Experience using frameworks and tools like Junit, Selenium will be a plus point
• Knowledge of Automated Test-Driven Development or Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Experience with highly distributed, scalable, concurrent, and low latency systems working with one or more of the following database technologies: MySQL, Redis
• Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools like Tableau, or other programs highly desired
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Knowledge of REST APIs, and web applications is desirable
• Demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, strong attention to detail, team oriented, energetic, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style
• Previous exposure to financial services is a plus, but not required

Additional Information

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.