Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant Level (SDET, Playwright, Event Driven)
Visa · Posted Oct 13
Digital payment technology platform and global payment card services corporation
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About the role
Visa is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries. This role sits in a team responsible for building and maintaining highly scalable, high-availability microservices within various financial domains, orchestrating calls across squad microservices to enable seamless product journeys with zero-disruption deployments. The engineer will own testing and quality strategy for these mission-critical microservices, building Playwright-based backend API automation frameworks and validating REST APIs, integrations, and event-driven, asynchronous architectures.
What you will do
- Design, build, and maintain systems that power Visa's banking platform
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship high-impact features
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 11+ years of relevant work experience.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing backend-heavy API test automation frameworks, with deep expertise in Playwright for API and end-to-end testing.
- Proven ability to validate REST APIs, service integrations, contracts, authentication/authorization flows, error handling, retries, and data consistency across distributed systems.
- Experience building scalable, maintainable automation suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines, with clear reporting, test stability controls, and fast developer feedback loops.
- Ability to define quality strategy for microservices-based platforms, including integration testing, service virtualization/mocking, test data management, and environment validation.
- Strong engineering mindset with proficiency in code review, debugging, root-cause analysis, and collaboration with backend engineering teams to improve platform reliability and release confidence.
- Experience validating failure modes and correctness in event-driven and asynchronous architectures.
- Experience with AI driven development ecosystem, preferably one of Cluade, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Amazon Kiro.
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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