Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The VCN, Spend Controls & Alerts team is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test to help achieve time-to-market, quality excellence, and higher customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. Unlike similar quality/testing roles in other organizations, a Quality Engineering position at MasterCard requires a hybrid role with knowledge and hands on software development and architecture skills to work closely with developers to build test automation, test infrastructure, and perform code analysis/review to enable development quality.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist the Agile team in the continuous validation of web applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions

• Test Automation code development (for API and UI tests) and day-to-day test monitoring duties

• Generate test data for defined test cases, recognize test environment preparation needs, and execute existing test plans and report results

• Update existing test plans and automated test scenarios to reflect new requirements

• Participate in project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections, and conduct test reviews, including test plans, requirements, cases and automation coverage

• Collect quality metric data and communicate test status/risks to stakeholders

• Work closely with developers to identify code defects or regressions

• Closely adhere to quality standards and assist team members in validating application functionality through the implementation of test strategies, frameworks, tools, reports, etc.

• Assist in planning and documenting test strategies and acceptance criteria based on customer needs

• Participate in requirements review, story elaborations and testing activities

• Design, code, and construct automation tests; escalate issues during testing

• Provide automation tests for operations teams to use in Ci/Cd automated quality gates

• Perform Exploratory testing as required

• Raise process improvement opportunities

• Provide technical support and mentoring to junior team members

• Perform demos of new product functionality to stakeholders

• At least four-year degree in a related field (or certifications and comparable experience)

• Experience in advanced code development, code review, and construction and use of automation frameworks

• Successfully developed high quality test strategies and text execution; recognized test environment preparation needs

• Experience in Agile testing methodologies and tools, unit and integration testing, and data virtualization tools

• Basic understanding of validation techniques and Continuous Testing

• Familiarity with UI automation frameworks, tools, and techniques to validate user interfaces (mobile, portal, web, etc.)