Lead Software Engineer (Performance Testing, JMeter, LoadRunner, Testing of Java, Springboot, Microservice, event based applications)

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 (Performance Testing, JMeter, LoadRunner, Testing of Java, Springboot, Microservice, event based applications)

Who is Mastercard?

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 Services Access Program - TSI team have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Software Engineers in Testing who can lead performance testing of microservices based Enterprise applications using Java spring boot stack. This position will be key to growing a global technology platform, operating at-scale, requiring focus on performance, security, and reliability.

• Do you want to positively influence the experience of millions of customers?
• Do you like to get involved in the creation and execution of strategic initiatives centered around digital payments?
• Do you look forward to developing and engaging with high performant diverse teams around the globe?
• Do you like to own and be accountable for highly visible strategically important teams?
  
  
  

Role

• Technical Performance Lead who can support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, performance engineering, chaos testing, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Working experience of performance testing and its tools and technologies (Gatling, LoadRunner, JMeter, Blazemeter, etc)
• Increase, maintain and communicate service metrics once live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, performance and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms, like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability, velocity and recommend performance tuning enhancements.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Review production incidents to identify and drive solutions to prevent reoccurrence.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Create and maintain technology roadmaps.
• Look at all tasks with an eye for automation; then work to automate them.
• Build, manage and maintain robust dashboards reflecting system health.
• Apply expert technical capabilities across discipline(s) to troubleshoot and solve problems.
  
  
  

All About You

Desirable Knowledge/Experience

• Overall 8-15 years of career experience into Technology or a similar field
• Solid knowledge and experience with web applications and distributed systems infrastructure.
• Solid Knowledge and understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
• Experience with static analysis tools to improve software quality
• Knowledge of CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, Bamboo, Concourse, XLR, etc)
• Experience with Java, Python, Scala, or other Object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with Git, BitBucket, Stash or other version control systems
• Experience with Maven and/or Gradle
• Experience building pipelines in Jenkins, Bamboo, Concourse or XLR
• Experience building test suites in JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling and/or Blazemeter
• Experience with performance tuning of cloud-native applications
• Experience working across teams to troubleshoot complex issues and providing guidance
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication adjustable to a diverse audience with various levels of technical and business acumen.
• Interest and ability to learn new coding languages like Java and Python, frameworks like Spring, and paradigms as needed.
• IT experience including demonstrating thought-leadership and relationship building across large-scale organizations
• Knowledge and understanding of Service Level Objectives, Observability, Golden Signals and Availability calculations.
  
  
  

Skills/Abilities

• Displays initiative and ownership.
• Detailed oriented and customer obsessed.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize efforts.
• Ability to pick up new technologies at a quick pace and learn on-the-go
• Ability to work with team members located in multiple geographies
• Displays excellent collaborative skills with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to provide positive customer service to external and internal business partners.
  
  
  

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.