Senior 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.

Title And Summary

Senior Software Engineer

Overview
• Quality Engineering team within MasterCard is about creating an ecosystem to build a world beyond waiting for all delivery teams to help achieve time-to-market, quality excellence, and higher customer satisfaction within all verticals including core, emerging payments, and value-added services.
• Unlike similar quality/testing roles in other organizations, Quality Engineering position at MasterCard requires firm knowledge and hands on software development and architecture skills on par with software developer to work closely with developers to build test automation, test infrastructure, and perform code analysis/review to enable development quality.
• This position will be responsible for driving Quality Engineering best practices within MasterCard in working with teams to deliver applications and solutions that meet the needs of our stakeholders, including consumers, merchants, issuers and governments.

Questions.
• Are you an experienced software professional who is passionate about innovative technology and its potential to help create a world beyond cash?
• Can you plan test strategy and acceptance criteria keeping end customer needs – functional, non-functional, and user experience - in mind?
• Love being hands on and can write code to break software as part of ensuring highest software quality and stability?
• Do you have a motivation to drive quality automation and self-service culture as a part of software delivery practices?
• Can you scale your communication at all levels starting from engineers to program managers to product managers?

Role
• Play a crucial part in driving Quality to help build and ship better products.
• Collaborate with our development teams to enhance our existing software development processes.
• Involved in training and mentoring developers in QE methodologies, and helping them to build high quality software.
• Partner with developers and test engineers to improve and automate test and release processes
• Help make Quality as an integral part of the development process
• Play the role of a mentor and coach to drive Quality.

All About You
• Effectively communicate across all levels of a project team to drive quality practices
• Participated in Agile/DevOps teams and understand the concepts and ceremonies they follow and use of Agile tools such as RALLY and ALM.
• Experience using Agile frameworks (Test Driven Development/Behavior Driven Development)
• Capable of contributing back to the Quality Engineering community based on enhancements and new capabilities regarding quality practices
• Adept in CI/CD practices and implementation (Jenkins)
• Adept developing in
• Skilled in debugging techniques to quickly identify root cause issues within your applications and their dependencies
• Experience of working with other developers to ensure that systems are designed for reliability, performance and testability
• Knowledge of design patterns and can coach at all levels regarding their use and practices
• Working knowledge and experience in developing and debugging maven build configurations
• Well versed in the use of Cloud based performance testing
• Skilled in utilizing industry standard tools (Neoload, Blazemeter, Stormrunner, etc)
• Experience in automating performance scripts across multiple projects.
• Understanding of how localization and internationalization affects web and native apps
• Effective skill leveraging SOAP and Rest services and providing feedback based on performance findings.
• Experience in Cloud/micro-services.
• Participate in PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help the Department with selection of Vendor Solutions, Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks.

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