Lead Technical Program Manager

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

Lead Technical Program Manager

Our Purpose
Mastercard Send is an API based application which primarily focuses on P2P and Disbursement transactions and is heavily integrated with Mastercard core applications. 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.
o Must be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and have the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment 
o Possess strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills
o Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering 
o Advanced level work experience in job offered, or as Software Engineer, Technology Lead, or related qualifying experience must include.
o Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
o Experience with Digital payments such as P2P payment and/or disbursements 
o Advanced experience with the following :
o Analyze code review reports and development quality to make sure best practices are being followed
o  Develops/monitors quality gating and automation strategy for a given project looking at code coverage and API vs
o UI level functionality
o Possesses a strong knowledge of programming, tools, architecture patterns, and BDD
o Ensures Performance and Scalability for applications and platforms
Responsibilities
o Provides strategic support related to specific applications and systems; assists with implementing service improvements across delivery teams and other functions
o Leads stakeholders through demos, presentations, and prototypes
o Creates performance dashboards and collaborates with performance engineering and applications teams to resolve problems
o Coordinates requirements reviews and performance testing activities; monitors resolutions and retains documentation
o Identifies opportunities to improve effectiveness and time-to-market
o Oversees identification and implementation of complex DevOps and automation efforts; replicates and resolves complex production issues for single application
o Provides input into performance appraisal processes for junior employees and/or team members
Experiences
o Successfully led project test teams; collaborated with business partners, vendors, consulting organizations and peer-level professionals across IT disciplines
o Java development knowledge and experience
o Experience establishing automated test framework architecture
o Experience working with existing automated test frameworks 
o Demonstrated expertise in BDD/TDD practices reviews and analyses testing frameworks and management tools
o Experience in scripting, performance testing, and application development
o Successfully collected performance metrics, producing performance reporting, built performance environment data sets and identified process improvements
o Rest Assured, Cucumber, or Karate (Gherkin formatting)
o Selenium or Protractor 
o Gatling or Stormrunner

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.