Manager, Software Engineering (SDET) QA
Overview
• Quality Engineering at Switching Solutions is a dedicated team of software quality engineers leading quality initiatives across various applications.
• The team will be leading the quality transformation and working to facilitate best DevTestOps practices across Switching Solutions.
• Unlike similar quality/testing roles in other organisations, Quality Engineering position at MasterCard requires firm knowledge and hands on software development to work closely with developers and leads to build test scenarios, test infrastructure, and perform code analysis/review to enable development quality.
• This position will be responsible for working on automation for cloud native applications. This position will work for ensuring quality across new product development of Core Switching applications.
Engineering Managers will split their time between Technical (60%), Managerial (30%) and Recruiting (10%) activities.
Major Accountabilities
• This position will be responsible for driving best practices around Quality, Functional testing, Exploratory testing, and adoption of Development services (Development Collaboration, Continuous Integration and Delivery, etc.), acceptance test automation, quality gating reviews for promotion of software, and continuous integration.
• Comprehends user stories to understand task items per story in the context of all levels of testing (unit, functional, integration, and regression).
• Build, lead, develop and provide hands-on leadership for top-notch engineers.
• Create clear career paths for team members to help them grow with regular and deep mentoring, attract and retain top talent keeping long term goals in mind.
• Drive strategy and vision across teams in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Work on multiple initiatives simultaneously and guide the engineers based on the priorities.
• Work closely with diverse stakeholders and enable them by building scalable and quality technology solutions.
• Facilitate platforms solutions that span beyond the team and across the ecosystem.
• Take accountability for moving the key business metrics within your area and provide thought partnership to the product team and ensure collaboration among product, engineering, and business operation teams.
• Drive agility in execution, create a strong team culture of responsiveness by leading by example and own decision making around prioritizations for better predictability.
All About You
• Bachelor / Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
• Domain knowledge in Core Payments specifically around Knowledge in testing real time transactions-preferably Authorization, Clearing and Reconciliation systems. (Must)
• Understanding of ISO 8583 and 20022 specifications (Must)
• Have knowledge and skills in test fundamentals and methodologies, ideally ISTQB or ASTQB-qualified. (Must)
• Experience in working in Agile Methodology. (Must)
• Exposure in building and using automation frameworks using technologies: Java, JUnit, JBehave, cucumber, Soap UI/Pro, REST, JSON and XML. (Must)
• Experience of working with other developers to ensure that systems are designed for reliability, performance and testability. (Preferred)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Engage and manage a team of software engineers, including task planning and code reviews.
• Have knowledge and skills in test fundamentals and methodologies, ideally ISTQB or ASTQB-qualified
• Current hands-on experience in development.
• Experience in System and Integration testing. (Must)
• Experience testing across a variety of platforms: APIs (REST and SOAP), micro services, cloud native. (Must)
• Hands on experience in Groovy scripting. (Must)
• Security Testing Tool like Fortify, Checkmarks etc. (Must)
• Ability to create good acceptance and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins/Bamboo) and code coverage tools (Sonar, Clover) to ensure 80% or higher code coverage. (Must)
• Experience in DevOps in a large enterprise environment and ability to implement cloud-based DNA practices. (Preferred)
• Exposure to Software Engineering Principles. (Preferred)
• Knowledge in migrating from legacy technologies such as mainframes to Cloud/micro-services. (Preferred)
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: