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.
• Would you like to work on a team building industry leading solutions for fighting fraud by providing latest account updates to customers?
• Do you have creative problem solving techniques?
• Are you motivated by the challenge of thinking on your feet in the middle of the action?
• Are you motivated to be a part of driving a world beyond cash?
Overview
Security and Cyber Solutions team develops new capabilities for Mastercard's 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 with execution times literally 10x faster than you can blink. The Lead Software Engineer in Test will play a critical role in driving best practices for automated testing and overall Software Development Testing Strategy.
Role
• Familiar with the following testing approaches: regression, component, code quality, testing services, testing and environment automation, development collaboration & continuous integration.
• Great understanding of BDD/TDD practices, code review and analysis techniques, and open source agile testing frameworks.
• Perform ad hoc / exploratory testing methodically to ensure system is working as expected by end user.
• Coordination of testing responsibilities and prioritization.
• Interacts with technology staff including Test Engineers, Developers, DevOps Engineers, Product management, and Program management to identify scope of project(s) and deliver services.
• Mentoring and guiding less experienced test engineers.
• Technical leadership on Software Engineering in Test space, with ownership of end-to-end regression tests for release cycles.
• Drive, maintain and document testing strategy across the organization.
• Overseeing of quality control in testing procedures and defect management.
• Knowledge base ownership, succession planning, exploration & execution of performance testing plus SAST validation.
All About You
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of Software Engineering concepts and methodologies is required.
• Advanced knowledge of Object-Oriented Design and programming in Java, J2EE. Cloud-based development is desirable (PCF, Azure)
• Experience in regression testing as releases move through the different environments.
• Experience in Testing Web services, Web UI, APIs and knowledge on microservice architecture.
• Ability to create good 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.
• Essential: Good knowledge of Linux / Unix and Intermediate Java coding experience.
• Sound knowledge of Java, Spring Framework, Junit, Selenium, Eclipse IDE, Rest Assured, Jbehave/Cucumber, Maven, GIT frameworks, Databases, APIs (REST/SOAP), SQL, Continuous Delivery concepts and tools such as Jenkins/Bamboo, Testing frameworks (TestNG, Spock), vulnerability tools such as Sonar, Checkmarx/Fortify, etc.
• Excellent technical acumen and ability to learn new software quickly.
• Strong knowledge of traditional testing methodologies and how it applies exploratory testing in an Agile environment.
• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and must the 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.
• Ability to assess existing application code and remediate performance type issues and rewrite any part of the code that deviates with best practices.

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.