Lead Software Engineer

Our Purpose

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

Lead Software Engineer

Our Purpose
We connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data, networks, partnerships, and passion, our innovations help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our culture is driven by our Decency Quotient (DQ)—fostering inclusion, respect, and diversity. We believe our differences make us stronger—enabling better decisions, driving innovation, and delivering superior business outcomes.

Overview
The Mastercard Authentication Program owns how consumer authentication works across both in-store and e-commerce use cases. This role contributes to building and operating best-in-class authentication products such as ID Check, Token Authentication Service, and Token Authentication Framework, driving adoption, scale, and revenue growth.
This position sits at the intersection of Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, and release engineering, ensuring our platforms are scalable, resilient, secure, and production-ready across hybrid environments (Kubernetes, cloud, and on-prem).

Role Summary
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.

• Unlike similar quality leadership roles in other organizations, this position needs deep understanding of software development , architecture, and performance engineering to help drive quality early in the life cycle of a product development. In addition, experience in payment processing/domain is highly desirable.

• This position will be responsible for driving adoption of Quality Engineering services (Code quality, Testing Services, Performance Engineering, Testing and Environment automation, Development Collaboration, Continuous Integration) .

• Position requires an extensive understanding of BDD/TDD practices, code review and analysis techniques, and open source agile testing frameworks. This position leads the delivery quality across couple agile feature teams, and product releases.

• Interacts with technology staff including Quality Engineers, Operations, Developers, Devops Engineers, Product management, and Program management to identify scope of project/s and deliver services.
  

• 8-12 years of overall career experience into Software Automation Testing (Mobile, Backend, UI)
• Good logical and critical thinking skills to create extensive functional flows and e2e user journeys

• Excellent Java Coding Skills.

• Ability to create good acceptance and integration test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins) and code coverage tools (Sonar, Clover) to ensure 90% or higher code coverage.

• Demonstrated success in leading a small to large-scale software development, testing, and performance across multiple groups.

• Experience preparing and delivering executive level presentations to business and technology audiences.

• Experience mentoring and developing resources in a high performance culture.

• Sound knowledge of Java, Spring, JUnit, IntelliJ IDE, Rest Assured, Appium, Jbehave/Cucumber/Karate frameworks, Databases, APIs (REST/SOAP), Continuous Delivery concepts and tools such as Jenkins/CircleCI, vulnerability tools such as Sonar, Checkmarx/Fortify, etc.

• Good knowledge of payments domain message flows, architecture, common design patterns, simulation/emulation tools highly desirable.

• Expertise in agile and waterfall delivery, life-cycle management tools (JIRA/Rally), software testing standards, methods and conventions.

• Experience with performance engineering and profiling (e.g. Java JVM, Databases) and tools such as Load Runner, JMeter. Exposure to Application performance monitoring tools such as Dynatrace and Splunk desirable.

• Exposure to Cloud, Infrastructure-as-a-code concept, and tools such as Chef/Puppet desirable.

• Expertise with cross browser and cross device testing strategies (e.g. In the Wild testing) and automation via device clouds (Perfecto, Device Anywhere, Testdroid, etc)

• Drive quality engineering, exploratory testing, and test automation covering all key practice areas including mobile, web, and API testing.

• Drive adoption of development services (Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Collaboration) amongst various delivery teams.

• Ensure that staff has skills and behaviors to perform tasks fully through effective communication of goals, objectives, performance and as necessary improvement plans.

• Understand end-customer needs and associated value chain to drive processes and practices to ensure flawless customer experience.

• Foster strategic thinking and continuous learning to help MasterCard continue to lead as a technology company providing differentiating high-quality products and services to enable global commerce.

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.