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
Quality Assurance Engineering Manager
The details:
Our Quality Assurance Engineering Managers lead and line-manage 6-8 SDETs in one of our vertical domains, across 3-4 cross-functional teams, that are responsible for ensuring quality across our industry-leading API that has already processed over £50 billion of cross-border transactions for over 5 million end-users, and is available to our clients 24/7.
Our usual team structure consists of an Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Agile Delivery Manager, 4 Software Engineers and 2 SDETs.
Embeds our values - Be Human, Better Together & Own It, together with our quality engineering principles in everything we do, leading by example
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
8+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience
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
Experience:
Experience managing SDETs 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
Skills:
Passionate about growing others while growing yourself. An interest for continuous improvement and helping SDETs 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
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.
