Lead Software Development Engineer - Test

Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Lead Software Development Engineer - Test
Overview
The Transfer Solutions group is responsible for designing, building, and operating the technology that powers Mastercard's next-generation payment applications-domestic, Cross-Border, and Bill Payments.
We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Test to join our Dublin team, focusing on the highest standard of quality assurance for our Cross-Border payments platform, specifically in the Treasury Management domain.
The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and developing test frameworks covering functional, integration and E2E testing for high-performing, scalable applications that encompass user interfaces, and APIs across distributed systems in the Treasury Management domain. You will work in a dynamic, agile environment, delivering innovative solutions using cutting-edge technologies.
Role
In this role, you will grow your career working as part of a global team with engineering and product colleagues to design and build the next generation of our Cross Border Services technology.
As a Lead Software Engineer in Test, you will:
• Drive our test strategy forward through innovation and problem-solving. Elevate our overall standard of testing by bringing vision and insights to how we test.• Work across global teams to provide coaching, direction and leadership to Quality Engineers.• Partner with Technical leads and other developers to understand features, identify test needs and ensure that our designs have testability in mind. • Partner with Product team to understand requirements and provide input into building User Acceptance Test suites. • Perform demos and acceptance discussions with Product owners, communicating confidently with stakeholders.• Monitoring of unit test coverage and quality gating. Ownership for smoke/integration across all environments and reporting on automation runs.• Ownership of performance suite, test runs and analysis of results. • Research and implement alternative test frameworks, tools and strategies to meet changing business needs. • Execution of exploratory testing as required. • Mentor and guide junior engineers, and participate in Quality Engineering Guild working groups to foster growth and knowledge sharing within the team and across Mastercard.
All About You: • The ideal candidate is passionate about Quality Engineering, is highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. • Proficient in designing test strategies across unit, regression, performance, integration, chaos testing, to ensure scalable and robust systems.• Excellent hands-on test automation skills in Java/Springboot with experience developing unit, functional, integration/smoke tests using RestAssured, Playwright or similar test frameworks.• Knowledge of public and private cloud technologies such as PCF, Azure, AWS.• Expertise in container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes • Expertise in test reporting with Jira/Xray.• Excellent command of CI/CD principles and tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Chef• Familiarity with monitoring & observability tools, and system metrics.• Experience in defining performance tests using JMeter, analysing performance test runs, identifying performance bottlenecks and coming up with novel ways to solve them.• Proven experience in elevating test standards and spearheading quality initiatives. • Excellent communication, documentation and collaboration skills. . • Research and implement alternative test frameworks, tools and strategies to meet changing business needs.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.