Lead Software Engineer

n best practices in Agile software testing and continuous integration and deployment.

Role

Play a pivotal role on the Agile team in the continuous validation of web applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions

Design and develop test automation scenarios to validate system to system interfaces and complete software solutions (for API and UI tests)

Interact with business and development stakeholders to define test plans and schedules

Translate complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods

Identify and implement complex automation efforts, including refactoring of automation code where needed

Work closely with software engineers to build quality in, ensuring proper test and requirement coverage, configuration quality, monitoring, early performance testing

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

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

Document performance test strategies and test plans, and execute performance validation

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

Act as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections

Provide technical support and mentoring to junior team members

Perform demos of new product functionality to stakeholders

All About You

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

Experienced in building automation frameworks as well as acceptance and integration test automation scripts

Successfully developed high quality test strategies and text execution

Analyse application logs and utilise basic debugging techniques

Successfully validated one or more applications via automation, for new feature functionality and regression testing

Experienced in Agile testing methodologies and tools, unit and integration testing, and data virtualization tools

Good understanding of validation techniques and Continuous Testing

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

Able to mentor peers and guide less experienced Team members

Technical Skills : UI Automation: Playwright/Cypress Mandatory, API Automation: Playwright Mandatory. Load Test Framework: JMeter and Gatling: Mandatory, Zephyr/Xray: Mandatory, AXE Core: Intermediate, Programming Language: Javascript: Mandatory, Java: Intermediate, Scala: Intermediate, TypeScript: Intermediate, Python: Intermediate, DB: SQL - Mandatory, Databricks - Intermediate, CI/CD: Mandatory, Jenkins - Mandatory, Bitbucket/Git: Mandatory, AWS - Beginner, Azure: intermediate, Rally - Intermediate, Jira - Mandatory.

Design Architecture

Technology R&D

Project Management

Requirements Assessment

Software Development

Agile Development

Automation and DevOps

Professional Skills

Business Acumen

Commercial Focus

Future Focus

Global Perspective

Innovation and thought leadership

People Leadership

Personal Influence

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.