Senior Software Engineer in 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

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.

The Account Management Services team develops new capabilities for Mastercard and its customers. We protect cardholders and card issuers and help them manage their daily spending patterns. To enable us to uphold the high standard of these applications we are looking for out-of-the-box thinkers to play a critical role in the upkeep and continual health of these products.

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to work with our cross-functional development teams providing technical leadership expertise within the development life-cycle for new products and services.

Would you like to work on a team that is building industry leading solutions for fighting fraud?
Do you want to learn cutting edge technologies and help solve complex business problems?
Do you have creative problem-solving techniques?
Are you motivated to be a part of an organisation that is driving a world beyond cash?



Role:

This position will focus on driving quality by developing automated solutions to execute functional, non-functional, integration, and regression, testing for end to end journey testing across applications.
This position will own quality functional areas and must be able to define test and environment strategies.
Work with a talented team of developers and test engineers to develop high performance, high volume applications
This position will be responsible for delivering of Testing Engineering services (Code quality, Testing Services, Performance Engineering, Testing and Environment automation, Development Collaboration, Continuous Integration)
Extensive understanding of BDD/TDD practices, code review and analysis techniques, and open source agile testing frameworks.
Author automated test suites with code, front end GUI automation and API testing
Perform ad hoc / exploratory testing methodically to ensure system is working as expected by end user
Comprehend user stories to understand task items per story in the context of all levels of testing (unit, functional, integration, and regression)
Participate in the process to continually enhance best practices for quality assurance
Interacts with technology staff including Test Engineers, Operations, Developers, DevOps Engineers, Product management, and Program management to identify scope of project/s and deliver services.
Drive adoption of development services (Test Engineering, Performance Engineering, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Collaboration) among various delivery teams.
Actively participate in requirements review/story elaborations , test planning, test data creation and execution of User Acceptance testing Plan, and testing activities to deliver high quality products and incremental value with every iteration.
Assist Senior Team members in modification of the documentation templates per the needs of the project and technology.
Understand functional and non-functional testing types and elaborate and estimate test efforts; understand how to build robust tests to minimize defect leakage by performing regression, performance, deployment verification, and release testing
Participates in activities that develop others and reinforces good team spirit while working with others.
Understands relationships within own work area and participates in teamwork and collaborative efforts



All About You
Experience Engineer with a passion for testing.
5years + working in similar role.
Experience in the software engineering / test automation field.
Experience in Spring Frameworks
Excellent technical acumen, strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to critical thinking and solid communication. Intermediate experience in Automated testing/software development.
Experience in creating and running automation scripts using technologies: Java, Spring Boot, JUnit, Jenkins, Databases, APIs (REST), Git, Bitbucket, JSON ,Swagger, code review and scanning tools configuration, and branching techniques.
Strong Java coding experience
Use of JUnit/TestNG or SPOCK frameworks
Experience in Testing Web services, Web UI, APIs
Experience of Agile methodologies and working within scrum teams
Exposure of test and defect management tools such as RALLY/Agile Central.
Ability to create good acceptance and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins) and code coverage tools (Sonar, Clover)
Passionate about code quality and coding best practices.
Good knowledge of Linux / Unix
Ability to create good acceptance and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins) and code coverage tools (Sonar) to ensure 80% or higher code coverage
Sound knowledge of Java, Spring, Junit or TestNG, Eclipse/ Intellij IDE, Rest Assured, Jbehave/Cucumber frameworks, Databases, APIs (REST/SOAP), Continuous Delivery concepts and tools such as Jenkins/Bamboo, vulnerability tools such as Sonar, Checkmarx/Fortify, etc.
Excellent technical acumen and ability to learn new software quickly
Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
Experience with Groovy or Spock framework would be a distinct advantage

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.