Lead Software Engineer - Automation Testing & Java Coding

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 - Automation Testing & Java Coding

Overview
TRE program consists of globally scalable products focused on bettering the safety and intelligence of the Mastercard authorization network. To fully integrate security and intelligence into the transaction process, the team works to develop merchant and consumer services, improve transaction validation services, and integrate security services with digital payments products.
All About You:
• 8-12 years of overall career experience into Software Engineering
• Good & Strong Java Hands-On Coding Experience
• Working experience in Test Automation both coding/framework design – UI, API, including agile processes
• Ability to coordinate, interact with, and lead cross departmental teams.
• Ability to make decisions without all information.
• Preferably professional experience in financial services, cards, payments or another related field
• Analyze code review reports and development quality to make sure best practices are being followed
• Develops/monitors quality gating and automation strategy for a given project looking at code coverage and API vs UI level functionality
• Possesses a strong knowledge of programming, tools, architecture patterns, and BDD
• Ensures Performance and Scalability for applications and platforms
• Experience overseeing the coding, testing, and review process for unit and integration testing
• Successfully led multiple test paths simultaneously
• Successfully ensured quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standard
• Experience in building automation frameworks, acceptance and integration test automation scripts, integrating with other tools
Roles
• Researching and evaluating tools to support domain-specific needs
• Develop technical work products and own solution design.
• Works closely with software engineers to build quality by ensuring proper test and code coverage, configuration quality, monitoring, early performance testing
• Develops and implements QA standards, processes, tools and methodologies; partners with other functions to establish testing requirements
• 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
• Assists in vendor assessment and evaluates and recommends software development tools
• May manage medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative and assigns day-to-day work.
• Translates complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods
• Acts as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections
• Directs evaluation of manual testing tools for automation opportunities
• Review production monitoring tool and practices to ensure issues are addressed proactively.
• Setup and keep enhancing coding guidelines/practices. Ensure its adherence through regular reviews with team.
• Technically coach team members to ensure optimal quality, performance and security parameters.

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.