Lead Software Engineer Test

Our Purpose

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.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Engineer Test

Overview
The Mastercard Consumer Data Management (CDM) program are on a mission to evolve our services and drive adoption of our products. Our products are internally consumed capabilities that provide secure handling of Consumer PII/PCI data, Consumer Consent data, Consumer Messaging services ( SMS, Email and WebPush) and provision of Email Marketing support for Mastercard products. These API services meet the stringent needs of regulatory requirements and are the foundation for Mastercard's product and service offerings globally.

The Mastercard Consumer Data Management team in Dublin is looking for a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test to drive our test strategy forward through innovation and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about Quality Engineering, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

Role:
This role involves working with a team of talented developers to ensure our highly scalable Java based API services are developed to the highest possible quality standards. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Driving the overall test strategy for multiple Consumer Data Management service offerings, adhering to test automation standards of excellence.
• Leading a small test of Quality engineers to provide quidance and direction.
• Help elevate our overall standard of testing by bringing vision and insights to how we test.
• Partner with Product Owners, Technical leads and other developers to understand features, identify test needs and ensure that our designs have testability in mind.
• Conduct POCs where required to enable early automation and ensure framework additions are in place.
• Monitoring of unit test coverage and quality gating. Ownership for smoke/integration across all environments and reporting on automation runs.
• Ownership of performance suite, test runs and analysis of results.
• Research and implement alternative test frameworks, tools and strategies to meet changing business needs.
• Sharing competence and knowledge across the team.
• Execution of exploratory testing as required.


Skills:
• Excellent hands-on test automaton skills in Java with experience in unit, functional and integration testing.
• Expert in full stack software development test approaches & frameworks: TDD/BDD, Unit tests, Cucumber, Spock, Groovy, Cypress.
• In-depth knowledge of test strategies, e.g. Chaos testing, mutation testing.
• Experience working in a cloud environment, e.g. PCF, AWS, Azure.
• Excellent command of CI/CD principles and tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Chef.
• Experience in defining performance tests using JMeter, analysing performance test runs, identifying performance bottlenecks and coming up with novel ways to solve them.
• Proven experience in elevating test standards and spearheading quality initiatives.
• Prior experience in leading a small quality team an advantage.
• Excellent communication, documentation and collaboration skills.
• Show initiative and demonstrate a willingness to take on challenging opportunities and navigate ambiguity.
• A critical thinker who brings vision and insights to how we test and can influence others.

Education
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work
experience.

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.