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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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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

Overview

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 Fraud Products team (part of O&T) is developing new capabilities for MasterCard's Decision Management Platform, which serves as the core for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity. Our patented Java-based platform processes billions of transactions per month in tens of milliseconds using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability.

MasterCard software engineering teams leverage Agile development principles, advanced development, design and test automation practices, and an obsession over security, reliability, and performance to deliver solutions that delight our customers. We're looking for talented Software Testing Engineers to design and develop regression and integration test automation for fraud applications using advanced technologies that are revolutionizing payments.

• Would you like to deliver industry leading solutions for fighting fraud?

• Are you motivated by speeding business solutions to market?

• Do you want to innovate, using cutting edge technologies on challenging business problems?

• Do you want to work for a company that offers above and beyond benefits including paid parental leave, flexible work hours, gift matching, and even volunteer incentives while encouraging your own professional learning and development?

• Do you thrive in a place where you are continuously learning more while growing your skills and career?

Role

• Possesses a strong knowledge of programming, tools, architecture patterns, and BDD.

• Ensures Performance and Scalability for applications and platforms responsibilities.

• Works closely with software engineers to build quality by ensuring proper test and code coverage, configuration quality, monitoring, early performance testing.

• Documents performance test strategies and test plans; translates complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods

• Participates in requirements review and performance testing activities; monitors resolutions and retains documentation

Identifies and implements complex automation efforts; replicates and resolves production issues for single application.

• Defines and implements best practices for end-to-end application performance management solutions; focuses on emerging technologies.

• Translates complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods.

• Directs evaluation of manual testing tools for automation opportunities.

• Experience overseeing the coding, testing, and review process for unit and integration testing.

• Ensured quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standard.

• Building automation frameworks, acceptance, and integration test automation scripts, integrating with other tools.

• Assist with production support issues by acting as a subject matter expert in resolving incidents and problem tickets.

• Be an integral part of the Agile SAFe discover and elaboration sessions.

• Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a global environment.

All About You

• Strong Experience in Performance Engineering for scalable distributed computing using Agile methodologies.

• Understanding Application Programming Interfaces, Google Remote Procedure Call (gRPC), abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed system problems.

• Assist in the design, implement, and execute chaos experiments from conception to production deployment.

• Experience in core Java programming for test automation and the ability to identify, write and execute automated tests.

• Advanced skills in test fundamentals and methodologies.

• Can understand complex systems and to identify and design automated and manual test scenarios to strengthen existing test coverage.

• Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly.

• Be experienced in working with development and release teams.

• Experience in Real time scalable solutions and CI/CD model.

• Assist in application go/no go decisions by providing quality metrics by covering different types of test scenarios

• Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.

• Possesses strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative skills, and organizational skills.

• Knowledge of software development processes including agile processes and test-driven development

• Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and can function under pressure in an independent environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.

Essential knowledge, skills and experience required:

• Strong Experience in Performance Engineering using Agile methodologies

• Experience in Core Java Programming, Selenium WebDriver, RESTful Services, JSON, XML

• Testing frameworks such as TestNG and Spock

• Experience with Continuous Integration systems (e.g., Jenkins)

• Result oriented individual with Automation experience and Code Quality

• Knowledge of Splunk, creating dashboards, alerts/monitors.

• Oracle & PL/SQL and advanced SQL scripting

• IDE such as Eclipse/IntelliJ

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge of Distributed Computing at scale

• Knowledge of Splunk and dashboard creation

• Experience using tools such ChaosMonkey, Putty, WinSCP, Toad, Postman etc.

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.