Senior Software Quality Engineer

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 Quality Engineer

Overview:
We are the global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

Our team within Mastercard – Data & Services:
The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that are used by some of the world's largest organizations to make multi-million dollar decisions and grow their businesses. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.

Targeting Analytics Program:
Within the D&S Technology Team, the Targeting Analytics program is a relatively new program that is comprised of a rich set of products that provide accurate perspectives on Credit Risk, Portfolio Optimization, and Ad Insights. Currently, we are enhancing our customer experience with new user interfaces, moving to API-based data publishing to allow for seamless integration in other Mastercard products and externally, utilizing new data sets and algorithms to further analytic capabilities, and generating scalable big data processes.

We are seeking an innovative Senior Quality Engineer to push forward high quality standards and support our team in designing and building a full stack web application and data pipelines. The goal is to deliver custom analytics efficiently, leveraging machine learning and AI solutions. This individual will thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and partner closely with other areas of the business to build and enhance solutions that drive value for our customers.

Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features. There are no rigid organizational structures, and each team uses processes that work best for its members and projects.

Here are a few examples of products in our space:
• Portfolio Optimizer (PO) is a solution that leverages Mastercard’s data assets and analytics to allow issuers to identify and increase revenue opportunities within their credit and debit portfolios.
• Audiences uses anonymized and aggregated transaction insights to offer targeting segments that have high likelihood to make purchases within a category to allow for more effective campaign planning and activation.
• Credit Risk products are a new suite of APIs and tooling to provide lenders real-time access to KPIs and insights serving thousands of clients to make smarter risk decisions using Mastercard data.
Help found a new, fast-growing engineering team!

Role:
o #AI3, Play a crucial part in a technical test lead role to help drive Quality and to build and implement test approaches, automation improvements and monitoring earlier in the development cycle.
o Undertake Requirements Analysis and identification of business scenarios and user stories to determine applicable test scenarios.
o Create, manage and maintain test data assets.
o Develop and execute a) manual exploratory tests and b) automated tests for APIs and GUIs.
o Collaborate closely with our development teams to enhance our existing software development processes.
o Partner with developers to improve and automate test and release processes.
o Help make Quality an integral part of the development process.

All About You:
o Must have solid professional software testing experience in complex distributed systems.
o #AI3 Must have proven current experience in creating and maintaining data-driven automated testing for distributed systems with a solid knowledge of Page Object model frameworks.
o Must have experience in Smoke, Functional, Regression, Backend, Browser and Non-Functional testing.
o Must have experience in Pytest and Cypress or Playwright.
o Expertise in using Postman/SOAPUI Pro for automated API testing and creating automated regression packs.
o Proven experience (recent) working in a continuous integration environment with hands on experience of configuration of Jenkins builds and executing tests using Jenkins.
o Preferred experience in executing test suites for stress & load tests
o Preferred experience in Behaviour Driven Development.
o Ability to analyze application logs and assist engineers by utilizing basic debugging techniques.
o Have hands on experience working with version control tools such as Subversion and GIT.
o Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

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.