Senior Software Engineer (Performance Testing

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.

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer (Performance Testing)

Overview

MasterCard is a technology company in the global payments business. We connect consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses worldwide and enable them to use secure and convenient electronic forms of payment.

Join the industry’s most passionate, motivated & engaged global team - Our employees are encouraged to drive innovation every day in support of a more connected world – A World Beyond Cash.

Partner with business owners, development team, quality engineering resources, product owners, product managers, release train engineers to ensure high quality product.

The Performance Engineer will be responsible for performance and availability engineering for this platform, additionally web applications and web services for managing critical platform capabilities, partner with other architects and the performance team as part of assessing platform needs, testing, troubleshooting, identifying risk and making recommendations.

A successful candidate will ensure potential performance and availability challenges are proactively identified, recommendations implemented and that capacity and availability exceed requirements all as part of ensuring the platform achieves business results.

Role
• Ensure that platform capacity and availability exceed requirements.
• Review of function and technical specifications for potential performance issues.
• Review of program code to identify potential performance issues.
• Reviewing production incidents and patterns and determining root cause or plan of action to remediate any issues.
• Work with the performance team to review system use cases and functional specifications with the appropriate business analyst.
• Ensure all levels of testing are conducted with adequate coverage. Identify potential problems, omissions and open issues, attend walkthroughs and signoff meetings.
• Identify quality risks, escalate issues in a timely manner and manage defects to closure.
• Produce documentation based on performance issue and fixes.
• Create and maintain a capacity and demand model for the platform as well as identify new infrastructure needed to keep capacity above demand.
• Partner with other architects, performance teams and infrastructure teams.
• Provide technical thought leadership.