Senior 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

Senior 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. 

Overview 
The Mastercard/Ethoca Consumer Clarity team is looking for a Senior Software Developer in Test passionate about software quality and customer satisfaction to join our fast-paced team. You will be responsible from functional testing to release validation via high test coverage in automation. The ideal candidate will be highly technical, motivated, detail-oriented, have sense of urgency and focus on delivering high quality products on time.

Role: 
 • Work as a member of an agile team to design, build, test, and deploy new products and features 
• Create test plans to achieve the best test approach in collaboration with team members 
• Create comprehensive and well-structured test cases for all test types in scope 
• Design automated tests for features  
• Independently design and implement modularized, data driven and reusable tests that can be executed on different environments 
• Develop, maintain and identify improvements to the automation commons libraries and framework that will be used by the scrum teams 
• Troubleshoot defects to resolution and closure  
• Ensure test assets are kept up to date and continually evaluated against test objectives (maintain all testing assets) 
• Execute automated test suites against the released version of the application with a goal of maintaining 100% test stability  
• Support the release process by executing and maintaining test suites for smoke, sanity, regression and operational validation. 
• Conduct reviews of test case coverage for any test types in scope to ensure appropriate risk-based testing approach is achieved. 
• Conduct peer code reviews, providing feedback around logical implementation, and best practice improvement opportunities around patterns, algorithms, library usage, etc. 
• Provide technical guidance, support and mentoring to more junior team members 
• Make technology recommendations that balance business needs and technical requirements 
• Proactively understand stakeholder needs, goals, expectations and viewpoints to deliver results 
• Independently apply problem solving skills to identify symptoms and root causes of issues 
• Make effective and efficient decisions even when data is ambiguous 
• Thrive in a highly collaborative company environment where agility is paramount 

All about you:  
• Experience with one or more object-oriented languages and/or functional languages (e.g., Java, Python, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Groovy) and secure coding standards and best practices.
• Demonstrated experience with automation frameworks using Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, etc.
• Extensive experience in testing Restful API & HTTP web services, JSON/XML, and Web-based applications
• Working Knowledge with CI/CD and continuous testing approach using tools such as Jenkins and Maven
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure and VM platforms like Azure/AWS/Kubernetes and VirtualBox/Vagrant
• Experience with performance testing tool like Jmeter, Blazemeter
• Understand ETL process, data model, object/entity relationship, and relational databases
• Proficient in QA process & methodologies, tools, and different testing approaches
• Knowledge of modern best practices for software development including IDE, source control, build processes, release management, and deployment
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail, critical thinking, solid communication and proven leadership skills -with the ability to lead multiple test paths simultaneously
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
 
Corporate Security Responsibility 
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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. 

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.