Sr. SW Test Engineer (3-5 years of experience in Big Data Testing, Pyspark, ETL Testing, SQL)

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Test Engineer with deep functional knowledge of financial systems to lead the automation of data quality validation across large-scale data pipelines processing petabytes of data.

As part of the Finance Data Platform, you will design, build, and maintain scalable, automated testing frameworks that ensure the integrity, accuracy, and reliability of critical financial data. Your expertise in PySpark, Python, SQL, and Hive will be central to driving data quality standards across our enterprise data ecosystem.

This is a hybrid role. In-office expectations will be confirmed by the hiring manager.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated data quality checks for complex, petabyte-scale data pipelines.
• Build scalable data validation frameworks using PySpark, PyTest, Python, SQL, and Hive, ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
• Partner with Data Engineering and DevOps teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyse test results to identify data anomalies, root causes, and remediation strategies.
• Develop and maintain production monitoring and alerting solutions for data quality.
• Document testing standards, frameworks, and best practices, and mentor junior engineers in data quality automation.
• Continuously enhance test frameworks to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.

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. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

Additional Information

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.