Lead Software Engineer in Test

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 in Test

Over View
Provides competent leadership, and highly specialized test strategies of complex systems and implement an effective Automated Test strategy for the program. Simultaneously plans, manages, and provides technical oversight for the testing activities. Ensures that tested components are compliant with Mastercard standards and requirements. Directs completion of tasks within estimated time frames.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Design applications, interfaces; recommend solutions, estimate efforts; provide guidance to junior analysts; work with higher management for strategic decision and help business to design efficient system.
• Assist the Agile teams building your application in the continuous validation of application functionality, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions
• Design and develop test automation scenarios for the entire application to validate system to system interfaces and complete software solutions (for API and UI tests)
• Interact with business and development stakeholders to define test plans and schedules for application delivery
• Translate expected customer requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods in regression testing
• Identify and implement complex automation efforts, including refactoring of automation code and designing supporting Test Framework elements where needed
• Work closely with software engineers to build quality in, ensuring proper test and requirement coverage, configuration quality, monitoring, early performance testing for all teams working on the application
• Execute existing test plans for continuous regression testing of the entire application and report results of the state of the application to stakeholders
• Participate in application design reviews, walkthroughs and inspections, and conduct test reviews, including test plans, requirements, cases and automation coverage, and identify any gaps or optimizations that should be addressed
• Participate in leadership meetings to communicate status, risk, insights, coverage, and provide reporting as required.
• Collect quality metric data and communicate test status/risks to stakeholders for application releases
• Work closely with the program leadership team to provide summary of the application's test results and escalate any risks, dependencies or blockers that are impeding progress of validating the application
• Provide input into performance appraisal process for department employees and help identify top technical talent
• Participate in the Test Engineering Guild, to develop and implement enterprise quality standards, processes, tools and methodologies, and interface with other teams across the organization to leverage their insights and experience
• Communicate quality standards established by the Guild and provide leadership to team members in validating application functionality through the implementation of test strategies, frameworks, tools, reports, etc.
• Lead complex initiatives and projects
• Provide information about budget, timeline, and participation for large, enterprise projects and communicate regularly with program leadership
• Assist in incorporating test strategies and acceptance criteria based on customer scenarios and insights from customers using the product, in partnership with the Operations teams
• Participate in requirements review, story elaborations and testing activities
• Ensure all application teams provide necessary automation test coverage for operations teams to use in Ci/Cd automated quality gates
• Raise process improvement opportunities, and identify and address tech debt
• Identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and time-to-market
• Provide technical support, coaching, and mentoring to junior team members
• Provide input for performance appraisal processes of junior employees and/or team members
All About You
• At least 10-12 year degree in a related field (or certifications and comparable experience)
• Experience in advanced code development, code review, and construction and use of automation frameworks.
• Experience in building automation frameworks, acceptance and integration test automation scripts
• Successfully developed high quality test strategies and text execution; recognized test environment preparation needs
• Ability to analyze application logs and assist engineers by utilizing basic debugging techniques
• Successfully led multiple test paths simultaneously
• Successfully validated one or more application codebases via automation, for new feature functionality and regression testing
• Experience in Agile testing methodologies and tools, unit and integration testing, and data virtualization tools
• Basic understanding of validation techniques and Continuous Testing
• Familiarity with UI automation frameworks, tools, and techniques to validate user interfaces (mobile, portal, web, etc.)
• Able to lead project teams, collaborate with business partners, vendor/ consulting organizations and peer level professionals from other IT disciplines
• Mentored and coached your less experienced team members
• Successfully led project test teams; collaborated with business partners, product owners, vendors, consulting organizations and peer-level professionals across IT disciplines
• Demonstrated expertise in Continuous Testing practices
• Reviewed and analyzed testing frameworks and management tools
Tools:
Automation framework, CICD, Jenkins, Postman, Appium, TestNG, Maven, IntelliJ, Playwright
• Broad IT experience including requirements gathering and relationship building with business clients
• Experienced in scripting, performance testing, and application development
• Successfully collected performance metrics, built performance environment data sets and identified process improvements
Technical Skills
• Design Architecture (Intermediate)
• Technology R&D (Intermediate)
• Implementation and Support (Intermediate)
• Project Management (Advanced)
• Requirements Assessment (Advanced)
• Software Development (Expert)
• Technical Documentation (Advanced)
• Agile Development (Advanced)
• Automation and DevOps (Advanced)
Professional Skills
• Business Acumen (Advanced)
• Commercial Focus (Advanced)
• Future Focus (Advanced)
• Global Perspective (Advanced)
• Innovation and thought leadership (Advanced)
• People Leadership (Intermediate)
• Personal Influence (Advanced)

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.