Sr. SW Engineer - SDET - Automation, GenAI tooling, API Testing
Visa · Posted Oct 8
Digital payment technology platform and global payment card services corporation
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About the role
The Visa Cloud Platform team builds frameworks and systems that automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployment tools used by Visa developers, aiming to make getting code to customers seamless by testing and automating the platform so applications can be deployed, supervised, scaled and debugged easily. The role sits in payments technology, covering automation frameworks, AI-assisted test tooling, and CI/CD integration across UI and API testing. This Senior Software Engineer/SDET will design and implement test solutions across all testing phases, build automation frameworks from scratch, develop AI-assisted test solutions, and integrate them with CI/CD pipelines.
What you will do
- Own the design and implementation of AI tooling, AI agents, and MCP server components to support QA activities such as intelligent test generation, failure analysis, and defect insights.
- Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks from scratch for UI and API testing
- Hands‑on automation using Selenium, Playwright, Robot Framework, and API automation using RestAssured
- Integrate automation frameworks and AI tooling into CI-CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable quality feedback
- Write clean, well‑structured, and maintainable code using Java and-or Python
- Participate in unit testing, code reviews, and continuous integration
- Apply engineering best practices, coding standards, and security considerations in all deliverables
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, and SRE teams to embed quality‑by‑design practices
- Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing within the team
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 3+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree
Preferred qualifications
- 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. M.E/M.Tech etc.,)
- 3–7 years' experience in software engineering, with a strong emphasis on test automation or test platform development.
- Experience developing AI or GenAI‑based solutions, AI agents, or internal engineering platforms
- Hands on experience in test design and execution based on business scenarios.
- Strong communication with ability to collaborate with global teams.
- Strong experience building automation frameworks from scratch
- Hands‑on expertise with Selenium, Playwright, Robot Framework, and RestAssured
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control, and DevOps practices
- Familiarity with cloud‑native and microservices‑based systems
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Visa
Visa Inc. is a multinational payment card services corporation that facilitates electronic funds transfers worldwide. The company empowers global commerce through its secure digital payment network, connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 34100 employees
- Founded
- 1958-09-18
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $17.9B raised
- 2008-03-19IPO$17.9B
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Product and Strategy Officer
Group President, Global Markets
Vice Chair, Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer
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