Lead Software Engineer (mastercard)

Job Description

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

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.

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.

Overview
Be part of MasterCard's Decision Management Platform, which serves as the decisioning engine for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity. Our patented Java-based platform processes billions of transactions per day in tens of milliseconds using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability.

Have you ever wanted to be a part of something BIG? Do you have experience integrating new and emerging technologies into existing environments as technologies evolve and demands change? In this role, you can make an immediate impact for a Leading Global Technology Company, MasterCard. The Senior Software Engineer role is responsible for working with teams across the company to implement new data solutions while maintaining the stability of the platform. You’ll work within the Fraud Data Engineering team to grow their knowledge and expertise. You will get the chance to work with extremely large data sets and be on the cutting edge of transforming the way Mastercard captures, processes, stores and visualizes transactional data.

The ideal candidate is passionate about both understanding the customer & the business, and also working with technology teams to deliver working solutions.

Primary Responsibilities
The Decision Management team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer in Test to execute on our regression test strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about software development and testing, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an ability to drive and introduce improvements to our existing regression test coverage and strategy.


Role
In this position, you will:
• Play a crucial part in a technical test role to help drive Quality and to build, implement and execute tests, automation improvements and reporting for our regression release cycle.
• Collaborate closely with our test teams to enhance our existing software testing processes.
• Partner with test engineers, SETs and development teams to improve and automate test and release processes.
• Help make Quality an integral part of the development process.

The ideal candidate for this position should:
• Experience in core Java programing for test automation and the ability to identify, write and execute automated tests.
• Have knowledge and skills in test fundamentals and methodologies, ideally ISTQB or ASTQB qualified
• Be experienced in working with development and release teams.
• Have the ability to 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.
• Test analysis and reporting ability.

• Additional capabilities
o Experience in Integration testing needs with exposure to data virtualization tools.
o Exposure/knowledge in cloud-based applications.

About Mastercard
In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.

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.