As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

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Data Product Development (DPD) Release Engineering team is looking for curious, creative, and talented technologists to join our team. This position is for a Lead Software Engineer role with very solid test automation, CICD and container solutions who will focus on creating new frameworks to mature our processes. You will be developing solutions that automate the release cycle from code check-in to deployment. Your solution will focus on eliminating wait times, manual handoffs, and automating as much as possible in order to improve the overall efficiency and reliability of our release and deployment processes.

We are looking for someone with serious Software Development skills, strong interest in DevOps and Test Automation, and a passion for continuously delivering reliable software. You will work with fellow Development, Test engineers and Product to design and implement Continuous Integration and Test Automation tools and frameworks that are critical in ensuring delivery of products with the highest levels of quality and reliability. This is considered a senior level position. Opportunities to grow your career here at Visa are limited only by your passion to learn, desire to gain expertise, and drive to excel in delivering high quality products and services.

You will be an integral part of the agile development team, and will be assigned a variety of tasks pertaining to design, build and test of software applications and services. Your main focus will be on Test Automation tasks, however, other tasks will be assigned depending on need such as code design tasks, software coding tasks, bug fixes, or manual testing of new functionality. You will always be working on ways to facilitate better quality through the design, implementation, and execution of automated build and test systems. This role is for an individual whose experience with software development forms a strong basis for designing automated test solutions that will ensure that we deliver high quality services. You will have a passion, not only for understanding how the solutions work from a functional standpoint, but also for digging into the code to really understand  what has been built to verify that the solution meets quality standards as well as functional requirements. Your strong technical leadership, problem-solving abilities, coding, testing and debugging skills is just a start.  You must be willing to go beyond the routine and prepared to do a little bit of everything. You will be an integral part of the development team, sometimes investigating new technologies/tools and at times refactoring existing tools/processes for performance and maintainability, but always working on ways to make us more efficient and provide better solutions to our end customers and application teams. The candidate will perform hands-on activities including design, documentation, development and test of new technologies. Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team’s needs. This position will be based in Austin, TX and reporting to Sr.Director of Release Engineering team.

If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

Essential Functions

• 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

• 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.

• Maintaining source control branches and performing integrations with merge conflicts.

• Facilitating and championing the quick resolution of problems found during the daily build and deployment efforts.

• Creating and maintaining documentation of the build/release process.

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

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

• 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.

• Design and write test cases, automate test execution and report test results to development and product teams.

• Develop new / extend existing Build and Test Automation tools, and frameworks as needed to make projects provide complete Continuous Integration 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.

• Work on dashboard solutions/metrics for the group. Lead the development and implementation of it.

• Work closely with senior leadership, project management, and Development teams within the company to develop, update, and implement Release Engineering practices for DPD.

• Keep executive management informed of progress and any obstacles of process and risks associated.

• Lead the team and ensure consistent, predictable & productive execution for high quality deliverables

• Participate in quality forums held company wide to gain and share knowledge and best practices from different groups.

• Identify appropriate technology solutions to meet platform requirements by performing technological evaluations and implementing proof of concepts

• Collaborate with security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques and software installs.

• Support trouble-shooting issues in both the test and production environments.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% 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.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.