# Senior Software Engineer - API Test Automation

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Bengaluru, IN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_560b6064-977

## Description

This role will be part of a team that is responsible for building and maintaining highly scalable, high availability microservices within various financial domains.

The team plays a critical role in enabling seamless product journeys by orchestrating calls across multiple squad microservices.

We ensure continuous delivery of new features while maintaining zero-disruption deployments, safeguarding system stability and reliability in a mission-critical financial environment.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

**Qualifications**

Basic Qualifications:

- 8+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Role specific Skills and Competencies:

- Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing backend-heavy API test automation frameworks, with deep expertise in Playwright for API and end-to-end testing.

- Proven ability to validate REST APIs, service integrations, contracts, authentication/authorization flows, error handling, retries, and data consistency across distributed systems.

- Experience building scalable, maintainable automation suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines, with clear reporting, test stability controls, and fast developer feedback loops.

- Ability to define quality strategy for microservices-based platforms, including integration testing, service virtualization/mocking, test data management, and environment validation.

- Strong engineering mindset with proficiency in code review, debugging, root-cause analysis, and collaboration with backend engineering teams to improve platform reliability and release confidence.

- Experience validating failure modes and correctness in event-driven and asynchronous architectures.

- Experience with AI driven development ecosystem, preferably one of Cluade, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Amazon Kiro.

## Skills

### Required
- Playwright
- API test automation
- REST APIs
- CI/CD pipelines
- microservices-based platforms
- code review
- debugging
- root-cause analysis

### Nice to have
- Cluade
- Cursor
- OpenAI Codex
- Amazon Kiro

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