Lead, Software Engineer (QE)

Lead, Software Engineer (QE)

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.

Job Description Summary

Overview

The 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 within all verticals including core, emerging payments, and value-added 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 Quality Engineering best practices within MasterCard in working with teams to deliver applications and solutions that meet the needs of our stakeholders, including consumers, merchants, issuers and governments.

Questions

Are you a 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 help drive quality automation and self-service culture as a part of software delivery practices?

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 QE 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

Exposure to agile and waterfall testing methodologies and tools such as RALLY and ALM.

Knowledge in COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, DB2 Utilities, and SQL.

Knowledge in Java/C/C++ development

Knowledge in Digital Native Architecture

Exposure with a mainframe Source Control tool, and with a graphical application using the mainframe as its data repository, and creating Cobol Stored Procedures preferred

Experience of working with other developers to ensure that systems are designed for reliability, performance and testability

Experience testing across a variety of platforms: web and mobile user interface, APIs (REST and SOAP), and Mainframe and UNIX

Exposure in building and using automation frameworks using technologies: Java, JUnit, Selenium, JBehave, Soap UI/Pro, REST, JSON and XML.

Knowledge of payment simulation tools (Paragon, FinSim, T3 or similar)

Knowledge of ISO payment protocols (8583) desirable.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $140,000 - $231,000 USD