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 (Senior Software Engineer in Test)
Job Description Summary
Overview:
Quality Engineering within Mastercard is about creating an ecosystem where all delivery teams can achieve time-to-market, quality excellence, and higher customer satisfaction within all verticals including core, emerging payments, and value-added services. Unlike similar quality/testing roles in other organizations, Quality Engineering positions at Mastercard require a firm knowledge and hands on software development skills on par with software developers to work closely them to build test automation, test infrastructure, and perform code analysis/review to enable development quality. This position will be responsible for driving Quality Engineering best practices within Mastercard and working with teams to deliver 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
Play a crucial part in helping drive Quality to help build and ship better products.
Collaborate with our development teams to enhance our existing software development processes.
Drive Quality Engineering methodologies and help build high quality software.
Partner with developers to improve and automate test and release processes
Help make Quality as an integral part of the development process
All About You
Must Have skills
Java, Selenium WebDriver, RESTful services, JSON and XML.
Unit test frameworks such as Junit
Git based version control such as Bitbucket.
Testing frameworks such as TestNG and Spock
Ability to create acceptance and integration automation tests, integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins/Bamboo) and code coverage tools (Sonar).
Experience with Linux and shell scripting
Experience in working in Agile Methodology.
Experience of working with other developers to ensure that systems are designed for reliability, performance and testability.
Exposure/ Knowledge in cloud based applications.
SQL (Oracle DB)
Good to Have
Experience with Maven build process
HTTP clients such as RESTAssured, OkHttp.
In Memory Grids (Pivotal Gemfire)
Knowledge in Digital Native Architecture
Knowledge in Cloud/micro-services.
Experience in Integration testing needs with exposure to data virtualization tools.
Experience testing across a variety of platforms: web UI, APIs (REST and SOAP), Unix (RedHat, Mint)
Knowledge of payment simulation tools (Paragon, FinSim, T3 or similar).
Knowledge of ISO payment protocols (8583) desirable.
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.
Skills Required
- Proficient in Java, Selenium WebDriver, and RESTful services
- Experience with unit test frameworks such as Junit
- Knowledge of Git based version control such as Bitbucket
- Able to create acceptance and integration automation tests
- Experience with Continuous integration tools like Jenkins/Bamboo
- Familiar with SQL (Oracle DB)
Mastercard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include an employer match up to 10% (401k or local equivalent), consistently highlighted in careers materials. Feedback suggests this is a standout component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks paid new‑parent leave is offered for birth, adoption, or foster placements, with financial assistance for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy where allowed. Feedback suggests these provisions are robust relative to many large employers.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexibility features include hybrid work, a four‑week “work from elsewhere” program, quarterly meeting‑free days, and five paid volunteer days. Feedback suggests these options support work/life balance across many roles.
Mastercard Insights
What We Do
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient 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.
Why Work With Us
We live the Mastercard Way: creating value in the communities we touch, growing together through the opportunities we see, and moving fast to innovate and scale. Our collaborative culture and our passionate people are the key to what we do, driving meaningful change as one team and connecting everyone to priceless possibilities.
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