Product Manager - Technical II

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

Product Manager - Technical II

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:
The Mastercard Transaction Stream team is involved in developing cutting-edge solutions to deliver the Next Generation of Core Payment Products for Mastercard. These cutting-edge solutions are built on the Digital Network Architecture, Cloud Native principles and in a Scaled Agile Framework.
As the Product Manager - Technical II of Transaction Stream team, you will be responsible for decomposing business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive the platform/product Quality, Validation, and delivery.
The Role:
• Work as a integration team member to deliver end-to-end product validation for Transaction Switching Solutions
• Play a crucial part in helping drive Quality to help build and ship better products.
• Drive test engineering methodologies, Mastercard standards and help build high quality software.
• Help make Quality as an integral part of the development process.
• Proactively monitor customer insights and production issues to seek quality feedback and improve processes to enhance quality of the product/capability.
• Drive quality automation and self-service culture as a part of software delivery practices.
• Acts as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections.
• Communicate effectively and coordinate with various global groups in MasterCard to ensure success of the projects, including Business Owners, Product Owners, Enterprise Architecture teams, Other product teams etc.
• Lead various initiatives for improving automation, defect metrics and overall quality. Conduct various Proofs-of-concept as per technological and business needs
All About You:
• Bachelor/Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent and Must have 4+ year of experience on test engineering.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to details. (Must)
• Good at test strategy analysis systematically and delivery focused. (Must)
• Experience in Unit, Functional and Integration testing. (Must)
• Practical exposure in building and using test automation framework with Java. (Must)
• Experience testing across a variety of platforms: Microservices, Event Driven Applications, and Databases (Must)
• Experienced in different protocols testing (SFTP/sockets/HTTPs/RPC..etc) and familiar with CI/CD pipeline (Must)
• Working knowledge of payment simulation tools such as t3/similar one and ISO payment protocols (8583) (Must)
• Strong knowledge of cards and payments domain, message flow and formats.
• Understanding of cloud-based platform architecture and familiar with micro service test (Preferred)
• Passionate about emerging technologies and trends, especially Event Driven Architecture and modern caching/persistence mechanisms
• Experience in working with Digital Native Architecture, Spring Boot framework and Cloud technology (preferably Pivotal Cloud Foundry) in an Agile ( SAFe) Development Environment
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills involving Business Owners, Architecture teams, Development/Test teams, Vendors etc. Ability to guide teams on technology.
• Coordination and organization skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders and vendors across locations to ensure success of the project.
• Strong understanding, inclination and experience of working in an Agile (SaFe) environment

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.