Software Quality Engineer

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

Software Quality Engineer

Overview:
We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.
Our team within Mastercard – Data & Services:
The Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that are used by some of the world's largest organizations to make multi-million dollar decisions and grow their businesses. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.

Advanced Analytics Program:
Within the Services Technology Team, the Targeting Analytics program is a relatively new program that is comprised of a rich set of products that provide accurate perspectives on Credit Risk, Portfolio Optimization, and Ad Insights. Currently, we are enhancing our customer experience with new user interfaces, moving to API-based data publishing to allow for seamless integration in other Mastercard products and externally, utilizing new data sets and algorithms to further analytic capabilities, and generating scalable big data processes.
We are looking for an innovative software quality engineer who can design and execute test plans for key full-stack features and our data pipeline and thrive in a fast-paced, agile team. The range of work you encounter varies from writing automated tests to ensuring analytical accuracy and beyond. This individual will be part of a large, cross-functional team and collaborate closely with our Customer Experience, Product Development, and Engineering teams.
Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features. The range of work you will encounter varies from building intuitive, responsive UIs to designing backend data models, architecting data flows, and beyond. There are no rigid organizational structures, and each team uses processes that work best for its members and projects.
Here are a few examples of products in our space:
• Portfolio Optimizer (PO) is a solution that leverages Mastercard’s data assets and analytics to allow issuers to identify and increase revenue opportunities within their credit and debit portfolios.
• Audiences uses anonymized and aggregated transaction insights to offer targeting segments that have high likelihood to make purchases within a category to allow for more effective campaign planning and activation.
• Credit Risk products are a new suite of APIs and tooling to provide lenders real-time access to KPIs and insights serving thousands of clients to make smarter risk decisions using Mastercard data.
Help found a new, fast-growing engineering team!
Role:
o Play a crucial part in helping drive Quality to help build and ship better products.
o Drive Quality Engineering methodologies and help build high quality software.
o Create, manage and maintain test cases, and test data.
o Develop and execute a) functional/integration tests, b) data quality tests, c) automated tests, and d) performance tests for APIs and web apps,
o Collaborate closely with our development teams to enhance our existing software development processes.
o Partner with developers to improve and automate test and release processes.
o Help make Quality an integral part of the development process.
All About You:
o 3+ years of experience as a Software Quality Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Test Automation engineer, Developer or related occupation, leveraging software QA tools and processes.
o Experience with a variety of different testing techniques such as UI testing, Automated testing, Test driven development strategies etc.
o Must be experienced with testing data intensive applications and data quality testing
o Must have strong expertise of using Selenium Web Driver (Java 8) for automated GUI testing.
o Expertise in using Postman/SOAPUI/Blazemeter Pro for automated API testing and creating automated regression packs.
o Proven experience (recent) working in a continuous integration environment with hands on experience of configuration of Jenkins builds and executing tests using Jenkins.
o Full understanding of test and project delivery life cycles.
o Ability to analyze application logs and assist engineers by utilizing basic debugging techniques
o Have experience with defect/requirements management tools.
o Have hands on experience working with version control tools such as Subversion and GIT.
o Excellent communication skills, written and verbal

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.