Title and Summary

Senior Software Quality Engineer

Overview:
We are the global technology company behind the world's fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.
Our team within Mastercard - Data & Services:
The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that are used by some of the world's largest organizations to make multi-million dollar decisions and grow their businesses. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.

Targeting Analytics Program:
Within the D&S Technology Team, the Targeting Analytics program is a relatively new program that is comprised of a rich set of products that provide accurate perspectives on Credit Risk, Portfolio Optimization, and Ad Insights. Currently, we are enhancing our customer experience with new user interfaces, moving to API-based data publishing to allow for seamless integration in other Mastercard products and externally, utilizing new data sets and algorithms to further analytic capabilities, and generating scalable big data processes.

We are looking for an innovative software engineering manager who will lead the team responsible for the design and build of a full stack web application and data pipelines, and thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment. This individual will partner closely with other areas of the business to build and enhance solutions that drive value for our customers.
Engineers work in small, flexible teams. Every team member contributes to designing, building, and testing features. The range of work you will encounter varies from building intuitive, responsive UIs to designing backend data models, architecting data flows, and beyond. There are no rigid organizational structures, and each team uses processes that work best for its members and projects.
Here are a few examples of products in our space:
• Portfolio Optimizer (PO) is a solution that leverages Mastercard's data assets and analytics to allow issuers to identify and increase revenue opportunities within their credit and debit portfolios.
• Audiences uses anonymized and aggregated transaction insights to offer targeting segments that have high likelihood to make purchases within a category to allow for more effective campaign planning and activation.
• Credit Risk products are a new suite of APIs and tooling to provide lenders real-time access to KPIs and insights serving thousands of clients to make smarter risk decisions using Mastercard data.
Help found a new, fast-growing engineering team!
Role:
oPlay a crucial part in a technical test lead role to help drive Quality and to build and implement test approaches, automation improvements and monitoring earlier in the development cycle.
oUndertake Requirements Analysis and identification of business scenarios and user stories to determine applicable test scenarios.
oCreate, manage and maintain test data assets.
oDevelop and execute a) manual exploratory tests and b) automated tests for APIs and GUIs.
oCollaborate closely with our development teams to enhance our existing software development processes.
oPartner with developers to improve and automate test and release processes.
oHelp make Quality an integral part of the development process.
All About You:
oMust have solid professional software testing experience in complex distributed systems.
oMust have proven current experience in creating and maintaining data-driven automated testing for distributed systems with good knowledge of Page Object model frameworks.
oMust have experienced in Smoke, Functional, Regression, Backend, Browser and Non-Functional testing.
oMust have strong expertise of using Selenium Web Driver (Java 8) for automated GUI testing.
oExpertise in using Postman/SOAPUI Pro for automated API testing and creating automated regression packs.
oMust have experience in Test or Behaviour Driven Development.
oMust have experience of using TestNG, Maven and ANT build tools.
oMust have experience in executing test suites for Stress & load tests using Gatling tool with Scala
oProven experience (recent) working in a continuous integration environment with hands on experience of configuration of Jenkins builds and executing tests using Jenkins.
oFull understanding of test and project delivery life cycles.
oAbility to analyse application logs and assist engineers by utilizing basic debugging techniques
oHave experience with defect/requirements management tools.
oHave hands on experience working with version control tools such as Subversion and GIT.
oExcellent communication skills, written and verbal

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.