Lead Software Engineer in 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 Engineer in Test

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.


The Disputes Lifecycle team develops new capabilities for Mastercard's Dispute Resolution and fraud prevention platform. We protect cardholders / card issuers and aim to eradicate credit card fraud. Our industry-leading platform processes billions of transactions per month. To enable us to uphold the high standard of these applications we are looking for out-of-the-box thinkers to play a critical role in the upkeep and continual health of these products.

We are seeking a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test to work with our cross-functional development teams providing technical leadership expertise within the development life-cycle for new products and services.

• Would you like to work on a team that is building industry leading solutions for fighting fraud?
• Do you want to learn cutting edge technologies and help solve complex business problems?
• Do you have creative problem-solving techniques?
• Are you motivated to be a part of an organisation that is driving a world beyond cash?

Role:
Work with a talented team of developers and test engineers to develop high performance, high volume applications
Responsible for delivering of Quality Engineering services (Code quality, Testing Services, Performance Engineering, Testing and Environment automation, Development Collaboration, Continuous Integration)
Extensive understanding of BDD/TDD practices, code review and analysis techniques, and open source agile testing frameworks.
Architect and oversee the development of suites of automated tests and test frameworks for front and backend development
Perform ad hoc / exploratory testing methodically to ensure system is working as expected by end user
Mentor, coach and assist test team members.
Provide technical training to the team.
Assist with selection of testing resources/ automation frameworks for projects.
Drive continual improvements to quality assurance best practices
Collaborate with technology staff including Test Engineers, Operations, Developers, DevOps Engineers, Product management, and Program management to identify scope of project/s and deliver services.
All About You:
Experienced Engineer with a passion for testing.
5 years + working in similar role - leading testing process and practices and mentoring and enabling other test engineers to deliver out team commitments and deliverables.
Excellent Java coding experience
Use of JUnit/TestNG or SPOCK frameworks
Experience in Testing Web services, Web UI, APIs
Ability to create acceptance and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins) and code coverage tools (Sonar, Clover)
Passionate about code quality and coding best practices.
Good knowledge of Linux / Unix
Sound knowledge of Java, Spring, Junit or TestNG, Eclipse/ Intellij IDE, Rest Assured, Jbehave/Cucumber frameworks, Databases, APIs (REST/SOAP), Continuous Delivery concepts and tools such as Jenkins/Bamboo, vulnerability tools such as Sonar, Checkmarx/Fortify, etc.
Excellent technical acumen and ability to learn new software quickly
Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills.

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.