Senior Software Engineer (mastercard)

Job Description

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

Job Description Summary
Overview
MasterCard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment.
Join the industry’s most passionate, motivated & engaged global team - Our employees are encouraged to drive innovation every day in support of a more connected world – A World Beyond Cash.

Partner with business owners, development team, quality engineering resources, product owners, product managers, release train engineers to ensure high quality product.
The Performance Engineer will be responsible for performance and availability engineering for this platform, additionally web applications and web services for managing critical platform capabilities, partner with other architects and the performance team as part of assessing platform needs, testing, troubleshooting, identifying risk and making recommendations.
JOB IS FROM: italents.netVIEWThe Performance Engineer would be required to focus on Performance Testing, Load Testing, usages ofJmeter, LoadRunner, Blazemeter. Working on Throughput, Test Reports, Root cause Analysis, Response Time Analysis be few of the responsibilities.

A successful candidate will ensure potential performance and availability challenges are proactively identified, recommendations implemented, and that capacity and availability exceed requirements all as part of ensuring the platform achieves business results.

Role
• Ensure that platform capacity and availability exceed requirements.
• Review of function and technical specifications for potential performance issues.
• Review of program code to identify potential performance issues.
• Reviewing production incidents and patterns and determining root cause or plan of action to remediate any issues.
• Work with the performance team to review system use cases and functional specifications with the appropriate business analyst.
• Ensure all levels of testing are conducted with adequate coverage. Identify potential problems, omissions and open issues, attend walkthroughs and signoff meetings.
• Identify quality risks, escalate issues in a timely manner and manage defects to closure.
• Produce documentation based on performance issue and fixes.
• Create and maintain a capacity and demand model for the platform as well as identify new infrastructure needed to keep capacity above demand.
• Partner with other architects, performance teams and infrastructure teams.
• Provide technical thought leadership.


All About You
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• Experience with large, complex, scalable, highly performant transaction processing systems.
• Experience working closely with other architects and engineers and providing technical thought leadership across an organization.
• A wide breadth and depth of technical experience including Java, Linux, Oracle.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate to an audience at all levels within an organization.
• Self-motivated with the ability to accomplish tasks with minimal direction.
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines.

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.