Senior Test Analyst

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
Purpose of Role

A Senior Test Analyst will have the freedom to plan and execute testing in the way that suits them and the team, within some broad boundaries. They will find the most effective way to reduce risk, with a focus on ensuring the quality of the product is visible. They will maintain active interaction with other stakeholders to ensure that not only is the solution bug free, but additional requirements and needs are explored.

In our Agile teams, we closely collaborate to deliver business value and maintain a culture of trust, respect, and teamwork. Working with the developers, business analyst, product owner, and engineering team lead, a Senior Test Analyst will be the independent test expert with versatile skills to become a cross-functional team member. As an integral part of the development team, they will lead a variety of tasks which includes manual testing as well as building and maintaining test automation suite. As part of the wider QA Team, a Senior Test Analyst will share knowledge and contribute to initiatives identified by the business. Continuous learning and improvement will be a key to success in this role, with opportunities for internal development and leadership within the organization.

You will be part of a team who are growing the capabilities and services in the Visa Spend Clarity to deliver scalable and robust solutions that will take Visa Spend Clarity to more customers and users around the globe. With an engineering group of nearly 300 people, Visa Spend Clarity is a key focus area with large growth ambitions driven by customer needs and a desire to innovate using modern cloud technologies.

Areas of Accountability

**Commitment to Quality**

**Balancing Resources and Outcomes**

Consistently advocates for quality over time and feature constraints

**Internal Collaboration and Communication**

Identifies and suggests solutions to problems impacting team, asks for guidance in unfamiliar areas, and pulls in others as needed

**Engineering Design**

Makes well-reasoned design decisions, identifying potential issues, trade-offs, risks, and the appropriate level of abstraction

**Driving Change**

**Industry Knowledge**

Demonstrates knowledge of industry trends and tools

**Influencing**

Influences teams with which they work and have worked, encouraging team ownership of quality

**Hiring**

May participate in hiring

**Reasoned Design**

Understands elements of the business that their work supports, makes well-reasoned design decisions and trade-offs in their area

**Learning to Teach**

Uses their learning opportunities as opportunities to make learning the same or similar things easier for the next person

**Broad Leadership**

Leads initiatives and meetings within team. Contributes to consensus for decisions

**Organizational Implementation and Impact**

Understands the team and makes decisions based on its direction

**Independence**

**External Collaboration and Communication**

Provides visibility to stakeholders based on the work of the whole team, and provides advice to stakeholders based on their own work

**Autonomous**

Requires mínimal direction or oversight and is proactive about potential issues. Handles open-ended problems and ambiguity well

**Reliable**

Trusted to do what they say they will do, or communicate promptly if there is an issue

**Problem Complexity**

Works independently under limited supervision on difficult and mildly complex problems

**Leadership**

**Contribution to Growth**

Contributes to regular team training sessions

**Leadership and Influence**

Develops engineers to grow testing skills through effective technical coaching

**Technical Collaboration and Communication**

Communicates technical issues and decisions clearly and proactively to a cross-functional audience. Mastering ability to express complicated issues simply

**Compromising**

Engages in productive dialog even when there are conflicting views, both inside and outside team. Seeks to understand other points of view

**Communication and Influence**

Influences others in the team as well as others