Lead Software Engineer

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

Job Description Summary
Overview
The Automation Frameworks team in Mastercard’s Architecture & Technology division is leading the DevOps transformation at Mastercard by developing automation tooling and driving standards throughout the development, quality, release, and product organizations. 

Our team members have an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation.  We are responsible for automation standards at Mastercard, maintaining industry standard tools such as Chef and Ansible, and working closely with other departments supporting Jenkins, BitBucket (git), Sonar, Artifactory, Terraform, and more.

Role
We demonstrate 'Mastercard values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers. As a Lead Quality Automation Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to carry out the following general duties:
-- Work with complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives Quality Assurance / Automation resolution
-- Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver test strategies to introduce new products and bundles
-- Contribute and lead Test Guild initiatives to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering
-- Plan, analyse, design, and execute manual and automated End to End user validation tests of our Developer Experience Ecosystem
-- Report, analyse and optimize the automation framework and tests
-- Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests
-- Venture beyond comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering
-- Consult across teams and across program lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities

About You
The Automation Frameworks team is looking for a Quality Automation Engineer who can help us solve problems, build our Developer experience ecosystem and lead Mastercard in Test / Quality
-- Do you have a low tolerance for manual work and look to automate everything you can?

Mastercard is seeking an engineer with experience in industry standard Test & CI/CD tools like Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, and Test automation tooling. Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient Test Automation Strategy that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required. 
-- Bachelor or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
-- Experience in one or more of the following is preferred: Java, Python, Go, Groovy, Perl or Ruby.
-- Design, implement, and enhance our deployment automation based on Test automation standards
-- Use Jenkins to orchestrate builds as well as link to Sonar, Chef, Maven, Artifactory, etc. to build out the test pipeline.
-- Familiarity with Cloud platforms including Pivital Cloud Foundry, Azure, GCP and AWS.
-- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
-- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
-- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
-- Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event through the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover
-- Work with a global team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones
-- We support many different stakeholders. Experience in dealing with difficult situations and making decisions with a sense of urgency is needed.

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.