Senior Software Engineer QA: Biometric Authentication

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

Senior Software Engineer QA: Biometric Authentication (Mobile, Backend Automation)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.

Overview:

The Mastercard Authentication Program owns how consumer authentication works for both in-store and e-commerce transactional use cases. The primary purpose of this role is to develop and deliver best-of-breed authentication products for e-commerce transactional use cases that will drive uptake and penetration for the products and revenue for Mastercard. The authentication products that fall within this role's responsibilities are ID Check, Token Authentication Service and Token Authentication Framework.

If you want a challenging project that is changing the way people do payments, this is the role for you

As a Senior Software Engineer in Test, you will:

• Play a crucial part in helping drive Quality to help build and ship better products

• Adheres to enterprise quality standards, processes and tools

• Responsible for developing comprehensive test strategies and plans for a complex biometrics ecosystem, encompassing mobile applications, SDKs, RESTful APIs, and third-party integrations (e.g., Biometric Service Providers). This includes independently generating sophisticated test data and proactively managing complex test environment preparation and configuration.

• Participates in project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections, and conducts test reviews, including test plans, requirements, cases and automation

• Drives the design, development, and implementation of advanced test automation frameworks and solutions across mobile, SDK, and API layers. This includes identifying and leading complex automation initiatives

• Develop and execute rigorous tests for biometric modalities (face and palm), focusing on capture quality, template generation accuracy, matching performance, and liveness detection

• Collaborate with external vendors during pilot phases to ensure their integrations meet quality and performance standards, and help define requirements for future in-house development

• Work closely with development team to identify defects early in the cycle through requirements analysis and code reviews

• Responsible for automation and Continuous Integration (CI)
You should apply if:

• Proven experience in software development and test automation with strong proficiency in programming languages relevant to mobile (e.g., Java/Kotlin for Android, Swift/Objective-C for iOS) and backend (e.g., Java, Python, Go)

• Extensive hands-on experience in designing, writing, and executing functional, integration, and system-level test cases for complex mobile applications, SDKs, and RESTful APIs Demonstrated expertise in building and leveraging advanced test automation frameworks for mobile (e.g., Appium, Espresso, XCUITest), API (e.g., Rest-Assured, Postman/Insomnia automation), and web (e.g., Selenium, Playwright) testing

• Experience with BDD tools like Cucumber/Gherkin and cloud-based testing platforms (e.g., BrowserStack/Perfecto) is highly valued

• Direct experience testing mobile SDKs and their integration within larger applications

• Familiarity with biometric concepts, including various modalities (face, palm), template generation, matching algorithms, liveness detection, and performance metrics (e.g., FAR, FRR)

• Track record of successfully developing and implementing comprehensive test strategies for highly scalable and secure systems, with a strong ability to identify and prepare complex test environments, including setting up mocks/stubs for third-party integrations

• Knowledge of performance and security testing (e.g. Gatling , JMeter, Blazemeter) (Good to have)

Our teams and values:

• We work within small collaborative teams consisting of software engineers and product managers

• Our customer's success is at the core of what we do

• We are diverse and inclusive teams from many backgrounds and with many experiences

• We believe in doing well by doing good through inclusive growth and making ethical and environmentally responsible decisions

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.

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