Software Engineer - Sr. Consultant Level (SDET, Playwright, Event Driven)

About Us 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 Overview: 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. 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.