Specialist Test Automation Engineer

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Auckland
In-Office
8-10
Senior level
Fintech • Information Technology • Payments
Join a world leader in payments and technology!
The Role
The Specialist Test Automation Engineer designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites, troubleshoots issues, mentors teams, and contributes to architectural decisions to ensure high-quality software delivery.
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Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

As a Specialist Test Automation Engineer, you will play a pivotal, hands-on role in building, maintaining, and improving test automation frameworks and suites across multiple teams. You’ll write and enhance automated tests—including for legacy code—and proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and fix test automation issues in existing systems. You will also collaborate with product engineering teams, providing technical expertise and guidance to uplift automation practices and ensure the delivery of high-quality software.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for both new and legacy systems

  • Monitor, investigate, and resolve test failures and maintain test reliability across teams

  • Support and improve existing automation frameworks and processes

  • Collaborate with developers, testers, and architects to identify test gaps and improve testability

  • Mentor and train engineering teams in automation best practices

  • Contribute to architectural decisions and drive continuous improvement in quality and automation coverage

About You:

  • 8+ years’ experience in software development and test automation (C#/.NET preferred)

  • Strong background in building and maintaining test automation for web, API, and legacy systems

  • Skilled in troubleshooting and resolving test failures across complex systems

  • Experience with source control, CI/CD, and modern testing methodologies

  • Excellent problem-solving, mentoring, and communication skills

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be 5-days a fortnight and confirmed by your hiring manager. 

Qualifications

Experience or exposure to any of the below would be advantageous but is not necessarily required:

• 8-10+ years’ experience in a Software Development environment
• Proven automation experience in C# (or similar)
• Proven experience in mentoring and development
• Functional Testing experience
• .NET and .NET Core/Standard development in C#
• REST based Web API’s
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Experience with enterprise scale multi-tenant Cloud/SaaS web environments
• Experience with source control (e.g., Git, Subversion) and continuous integration (e.g., TeamCity)
• Experience with DDD, TDD, SOLID principles
• Strong technical leadership experience at a senior level
• Building and running internal platforms with a Product Led mindset
• A broad knowledge of SDLC methodologies and the challenges of testing
• Experience with testing web services and APIs 
• Experience with SQL queries and relational databases
• Ability to build, maintain and grow functional and regression test automation suites, including automated testing of API and Web UI
• Experience with accessibility testing
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence 

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.

Top Skills

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Confluence
Git
JIRA
Microsoft Sql Server
Rest Apis
Teamcity
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
26,500 Employees
Year Founded: 1958

What We Do

At Visa, we are driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. As our products and technology have evolved with the world, Visa remains ubiquitous, reaching new customers in new and often invisible ways. We are at the center of this digital revolution with a network that connects people with over 80 million businesses all over the world. And Visa’s network is expanding, accelerating our growth. Our resilient business model, with its strong track record of success, will provide you with amazing opportunities to grow in your career, as well.

We are looking for people like YOU. Come join a people-centric company where you can invest in your career.

For more information, visit visa.com/about, visacorporate.tumblr.com and @VisaNews on Twitter.

Why Work With Us

Our employees are our company. Creating an inclusive and diverse workplace has been our key priority. With our purpose to “uplift everyone, everywhere” as our guide, we’re building an environment where diverse backgrounds and perspectives are celebrated and drive success inside our company and out in our communities.

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