Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks. We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

Visa Business Solutions - B2B Services group is part of Data & Product Development team in Visa’s Technology organization and is responsible for designing, developing and implementing Value Added Information Products and Services for Visa’s Commercial line of business globally. We develop, support and maintain various Commercial platforms including Commercial data processing, B2B payments, and data warehousing and BI platforms. This position will be based in Austin, Texas. The successful candidate will be a Principal level Software Engineer

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Architecting, maintaining, and streamlining of continuous Delivery solutions for end to end CICD pipeline setup of one click build deployments

• Automate testing and deploying releases to multiple environments.

• Work directly with agile Application Development teams to provide daily support aligned with a model of Continuous Delivery

• Support third party software deployments and integration points within Visa environments

• Promote a Dev Ops culture through building relationships with Development & Operations and driving enhancements to the end-to-end release process

• Ensure continuous availability of applications and related integrations in all pre-production environments

• Ensure continuous availability of various tools supporting SCM & Release Management including Source Control, Continuous Integration, & Change Management

• Maintain source control branches and perform integrations with merge conflicts

• Make recommendations for SCM branching and merging policies and best practices in order to promote uniformity across development teams

• Facilitate and champion the quick resolution of problems found during the daily build and deployment efforts

• Create and maintain documentation of the build/release process.

• Investigate tools and processes and integrate them so that they can improve the reliability, stability and efficiency with which we release our services

• Work closely with the development team to integrate new deployment processes and strategies to meet our feature requirements

• Design and build/extend Test Automation framework and write test cases utilizing latest technologies and a variety of languages

• Automate test case execution and report test results to development and product teams

• Collaborate on developing test automation utilities to make project testing more effective and efficient

• Participate in design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems

• Identify data needs and scenarios for Integration testing and end to end testing including areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, logging capabilities or usability

• Have a good understanding of requirements and testing coverage

• Communicate effectively and responsibly in an Agile environment

• Become an expert at finding bugs, breaking things, helping development diagnose and fix the bug, improve the automated test, and do it over and over again.

• Comfortable working in a loosely structured, fast-paced organization

• Create documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance

• Build working relationships with global and virtual teams on software development

Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices and development methodologies

Basic Qualifications

4 years of 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 degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant field, Master’s Degree preferred

• 7 years of experience in automation development or software development including at least one of the following languages:  Java, C/C++, Python, Javascript, C#

• Experience with source control, build and deployment tools such as Jenkins, Subversion, Maven, Hudson, Git, Chef

• Sound Knowledge on Source Control Tools such as GIT and SCM concepts (branching, merging, integration, versioning, etc.)

• Continuous Integration (CI) tools such as  Jenkins, TFS, Bamboo and TeamCity. Should have hands on and good understanding on DevOps tools and automation framework to build CICD

• Scripting experience with batch / shell scripting in Powershell and Linux.

• Must be proficient with scripting languages such as Python, Unix Shell, Perl, Groovy and with build tools such as GIT, Ant, Maven & Gradle

• Knowledge and experience with Linux and Windows Operating Systems

• Should have working experience with monitoring tools like OPNET, and/or SPLUNK, or any other

• Experience working in Agile environments is preferred

• Experience with build and release of online services and a passion for delivering a quality experience to customers

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where iterative changes may need to go out in rapid succession.

• Knowledge of test automation tools and frameworks such as Cucumber, Ruby, Selenium, Robot is preferred

• Knowledge of web services standards and related technologies (XML, SOAP, JSON, REST) is preferred

• Knowledge of SOAP UI Automation using Groovy scripts and SOAP UI Pro is preferred

Knowledge of database query tools and ability to write and run SQL queries for data validation is preferred

Work Hours This position requires the incumbent to be available during core business hours.

Travel Requirements This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 0% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, and reach with hands and arms.