Staff SDET

VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization. Large banks, aspiring fintechs, and growing merchants embed our universal token vault into their technology stack to manage the complexities of payment data tokenization across processors and networks, open banking, card issuance, omnichannel loyalty, PCI compliance, payment orchestration, and more. We empower our clients and partners by tokenizing sensitive payment data, limiting compliance scope, and consolidating payments to unlock revenue and business opportunities. 

VGS provides processor-agnostic tokenization solutions via secure universal token vaults, iframes, mobile SDKs, tokenization proxies, APIs, and data orchestration tooling to support payment acceptance, card issuance, PII and bank account tokenization, and other payments value-added services. Some of the use cases we enable include multi-processor Network Tokenization, Account Updater, payment orchestration, secure settlement file processing, 3DS, and Risk provider connectivity.

We are looking for an empathetic, detail-oriented Staff SDET who is responsible for championing test automation practices. This position will directly report to the Director of Engineering, Engineering Enablement.

We’re seeking individuals with an equal flair for creative problem solving, enthusiasm for new technologies, and desire to contribute to our product. You will likely be successful in this role if you identify with the following traits: attention to detail, problem solver, customer oriented, versatile, resilient and confident. If this sounds interesting to you, we’d love to hear from you.

What you will be doing at VGS

• Staff Software Development Engineer in Test position is a hands-on technical lead role that will mentor and collaborate/influence key stakeholders (ex: Engineering Managers, developers, other SDETs) across the organization and drive/own the overall quality initiatives.
• Define, implement, drive and own quality strategy including roadmaps, initiatives, standards, tooling, framework, and processes.
• Analyze incidents, customer reported defects, internal reported defects, bugs and identify gaps in test capability, coverage, framework, tooling across all product teams and suggest technical improvements.
• Lead tool analysis, create proof of concept models, socialize and acquire buy-in to support the tools selection process.
• Work seamlessly in a remote-first environment and foster a culture of test automation across teams and ensure consistency of test tooling, framework and processes. 
• Drive shift-left in the SDLC and actively work with development and devops teams for integrating test automation as an integral part of the CI/CD delivery pipeline.
• Be proactive and innovative - we rely on your feedback to build a world-class product.
• Be a part of a team that believes in the core values of transparency, integrity, trust, and joy; in going above and beyond what is required in order to do the right thing for our customers and the company; and in having fun while doing all this!

What we are looking for from you (Requirements)

• 8+ years hands-on experience in test automation practices with various tools and frameworks for a Cloud SaaS environment.
• Extensive experience in backend performance testing of high volume applications that handle millions of requests using Locust or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in backend functional testing using framework and tools such as RestAssured, PyTest or equivalent.
• Developed BDD/TDD tests using cucumber framework.
• Strong OOP experience in languages like Python, JavaScript and deep understanding of design patterns.
• Prior Agile development experience, preferably in a CI/CD environment using CircleCI, Jenkins, Github, or Gitlab.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices, CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Argo), GitOps, APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka (MSK), Java, Spring Framework, Python, and AWS services.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to understand and explain complex technical issues to a non- technical audience.
• Enthusiastic and energetic with an inherent curiosity to break code and stress test it!
• BS in Computer Science or Equivalent.

Plus If…

• Experience in UI functional testing using Testcafe, Cypress, Selenium or equivalent.
• Knowledge of white box testing tools such as SonarQube.
• Knowledge of observability solutions using Grafana, Honeycomb and Open Telemetry.

What you get from us...

• Flexible work hours and flexible PTO

• Competitive health benefits

• VGS stock options

• 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees)

• Life & disability insurance

• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees)

• Global parental leave program

• Employee Assistance Program

• Home Internet reimbursement

• New hire home office set up allowance

• Professional learning reimbursement

At VGS, we have a remote-first philosophy, which is that employees should have a comfortable work-life balance. We value great talent, and we strive to provide the best experience for our candidates. VGS appreciates your candidacy.

We consider applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, marital status, physical or mental disability, or other protected classes under all local, state, and federal laws and ordinances (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled).

Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

VGS will not be able to provide any kind of employment sponsorship at this time.