Senior Quality Engineer

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 Quality Engineer -Automation and ManualOverview

• 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 for Payment Transaction 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 best practices for exploratory and automated testing within MasterCard in working with teams to delivers 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

• This position will drive Quality/Test Strategy creation, Automation testing along with Manual testing, Integration testing, User journey automation, Cross device/browser automation for web applications, Release sign-offs, etc.

• Coordinate and participate in requirements review/story elaborations and testing activities to deliver high quality products and incremental value with every iteration.

• Review project test and implementation schedules. Document test plans and acceptance criteria using JIRA, Rally or such solution life cycle management tools.

• Develop test scripts and perform automated and manual exploratory testing to ensure software meets business and security requirements and established practices.

• Own responsibility for end-to-end product quality including: defect management and oversight, status reporting and metrics creation, and escalation for issues discovered during the testing phase

• Develop business and product knowledge over time and share such knowledge to mentor newer team members. This is not a management position; however, this position is expected to provide strong leadership to junior members of the staff.
All About You

• Expertise of agile testing methodologies and tools such as JIRA, RALLY, Rational Team Concert, Quality Center, etc.

• Experience in both Unit and Integration testing needs with exposure to data virtualization tools.

• Experience testing across a variety of platforms: web and mobile user interface, APIs (REST and SOAP), and/or data warehouse reports.

• Deep understanding of software design patterns, performance and scalability architecture, and code review skills.

• Expertise in software development to build and use automation frameworks using technologies: Java/.NET, JUnit, Selenium, JBehave, Soap UI/Pro, Spring framework, REST, JSON and XML, Eclipse IDE, etc.

• Demonstrated experience developing high quality test strategies and test execution – specific focus on cross browser and cross device testing.

• Ability to create good acceptance and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins/Bamboo) and code coverage tools (Sonar, Clover).

• Understanding of Continuous integration and delivery concepts desirable.

• Exposure to performance engineering requirements desirable to develop Non Functional requirements from the start.

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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