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?

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team –one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.


Overview

Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.


To drive our future growth, we need to dramatically scale our platform and build new products. Ethoca’s growth is explosive, and only great problem-solvers, collaborators and thinkers can help us take it to the next level. If that sounds like you then keep reading!

We want to hire a lead developer that is eager to have significant influence on a massive technology overhaul using nothing but the best products, patterns, and practices!

We believe in decoupled, message-driven, and distributed systems. We strive to keep codebases small and manageable. We’re interested in reactive design patterns that will make our systems more resilient and responsive yet remain elastic to change. As we proceed through our technology roadmap we are evaluating new community endorsed technologies for every tier of our platform. Our backend tiers are presently JVM-based. We are using or considering technologies like Kafka, Spring Boot, Angular, Bootstrap, REST, Chef, Terraform, Openstack, Azure, Elasticsearch, NoSQL, Docker and so on.


Role

• Implement enterprise quality standards, tools, and build control strategies.
• Collaborate with business and development teams to define test plans and schedules.
• Work with Program Managers, Technical Program Managers, and Software Engineering Managers to translate product use cases into high-quality designs and implementations.
• Manage large projects or initiatives as an individual contributor or lead a segment of multiple initiatives; may also supervise a QA team and assign day-to-day tasks.
• Mentor peers and guide less experienced team members.
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, TDD, and BDD methodologies to software testing.
• Analyze application logs and assist engineers with debugging.
• Contribute to grooming and prioritizing stories related to non-functional requirements, baseline software stacks, and critical domain features.
• Communicate risks and design trade-offs to leadership team.
• Ensure high code quality through effective collaboration with engineering teams.
• Participate in product kick-offs and requirement workshops to provide direction, identify technology feasibility, and assess resource needs.
• Contribute to talent acquisition activities.


All About You

• Experience in automation testing using any of the tool like REST Assured, JBehave, TestNG, JMeter, mobile automation tools
• Proficiency in Java, JavaScript is a plus.
• Strong background across the software testing lifecycle: test planning, design, execution, defect management, and reporting.
• Expertise in Functional, Regression, System, and UAT testing.
• Skilled in debugging and root cause analysis.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience managing teams and collaborating cross-functionally.
• Expertise in TDD, BDD, and Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, Lean).
• Experience testing enterprise-level solutions, such as banking, payments, or service provider platforms.
• Experience working with development team of mobile/web application development, and internet-related cloud technology development.
• Proficient with tools like Confluence, JIRA, and Rally.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or IT required; Master's degree preferred.

Mastercard is an 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.