Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.
When partnering with Visa, you are also in a way part of a culture of purpose and belonging – where the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
Visa Cross-Border Solutions offers deep money movement capabilities to organisations across the globe. Powered by Currencycloud technology, Visa Cross-Border Solutions enhances, streamlines and simplifies integrating the cross-border financial tools of tomorrow.
Clients can embed cross-border finance into the heart of their business and create sophisticated and user-friendly app-based experiences, connecting consumers and businesses around the world.
Since 2012, the technology behind Visa Cross-Border Solutions has been used to process more than $250bn to over 180 countries, partnering with banks, businesses and fintechs all over the world.
Partner with Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.
Job Description
What we expect of you, day to day:
• Lead, support, mentor, line-manage and grow Quality Assurance Engineers of varying levels of seniority
• Managing productivity of the QA engineers across the tribe
• Responsible for the overall quality of engineering output of the domain
• Hiring, retaining, and growing top QA talent
• Drive quality excellence and best quality engineering practices, working closely with QA engineers, software engineers and engineering managers to build high-quality architectures and systems
• Work on QA strategy with the Head of QA to define a roadmap that’s compelling, while collaborating with product management teams across the domain
• Drive both medium and long-term QA objectives and key results with full responsibility for execution across the tribe
• Decides where to invest QA effort by making pragmatic decisions in regards to cost vs value
• Become a domain expert, not only with technical and QA expertise, but also in regards to our product offering and how our products are used by our customers
• Clearly communicate the risks, successes, and missteps as you define and execute on the QA vision for the domain
• Champion change cross-functionally not just across your domain but the whole QA organisation
• Embeds our values - Be Human, Better Together & Own It, together with our quality engineering principles in everything we do, leading by example
• Represents the QA organisation in the wider engineering and tech community
This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice.
Qualifications
• Experience managing QA Engineers across one or more teams simultaneously
• Been responsible for ensuring solutions across large cloud-native architectures are of high quality, are well-tested and fault-tolerant
• Been responsible for developing the testing architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions
• Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile
• Experience working with Agile process and principles, working together with product teams
• Has an understanding of Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability
• Has previous hand-on experience of API testing
• Has experience of Contract testing
• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services
• Passionate about growing others while growing yourself. An interest for continuous improvement and helping QA engineers to feel part of something bigger
• Continuous improvement on processes and ways of working around the SDLC
• A mindset compatible with continuous deployment, agile planning, cloud-based systems, experimentation and testing
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work
• Strong business and technical vision
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and in written form
• Customer focus
• Ability to make decisions and recommendations based on incomplete or ambiguous information
• Coding ability in a modern programming language such as Ruby, Scala, Java, Javascript or Python
Additional Information
Think you have what it takes?
If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!
Diversity & Inclusion
Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.
By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients
