Lead Software Engineer - QE

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 - QE

Overview:

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.

Team Overview:

Decision Management Program (DMP) is a sophisticated, industry-leading intelligence with a range of capabilities that structure and apply complex business logic across the payment journey and beyond to inform and accelerate decisions at scale at Mastercard.

The Authorization Decisioning product within DMP combines DMP's powerful capabilities with access to all authorization messages available within Mastercard. With access to the full extent of transactions as they happen, Authorization Decisioning can extract intelligence, add intelligence, and make decisions, all customizable to market-facing products. With the ability to bi-directionally consume and apply intelligence, Authorization Decisioning can transform insights into immediate operational action.

The DMP team is looking for someone to join the Authorization Decisioning product as Quality Engineering Lead for driving the adoption of Quality Engineering services-including code quality, test automation, performance engineering, environment automation, development collaboration, and continuous integration across multiple agile feature teams . You will collaborate closely with Quality Engineers, Developers, Operations, DevOps, Product Management, and Program Management to define scope, influence best practices, and deliver high-impact services that enable flawless customer experiences.

Role:

Lead quality engineering strategy, automation, and exploratory testing across web, mobile, and API platforms.
Drive adoption of QE, performance engineering, CI/CD, and environment automation practices.
Implement BDD/TDD, ensure strong code quality, and achieve high automation and code coverage.
Provide technical oversight on test automation, code reviews, quality metrics, and engineering best practices.
Partner with engineering, DevOps, operations, and product teams to define test strategy and automation scope.
Understand end-to-end customer flows and ensure quality across the entire value chain.
Oversee integration of test automation with Jenkins/Bamboo, Sonar, and other quality tools.
Guide teams on performance testing using JMeter/LoadRunner and support continuous delivery pipelines.
Mentor and develop Quality Engineers in a fast-paced, high-performance culture.
Develops and executes performance testing strategies, automation, and best practices to ensure end-to-end application reliability and efficiency.
Provide production support and when needed reproduce issues across multiple applications and collaborate in driving their resolution.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, customer-focused delivery.

All About You:

12-14 years' experience in software test automation and quality engineering.
Strong Java coding skills; hands-on with Spring, JUnit, Rest Assured, Appium.
Expertise with Cucumber/JBehave, REST/SOAP API testing, CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with quality tools (Sonar, Clover), security tools (Checkmarx, Fortify), and performance tools (JMeter, LoadRunner).
Knowledge of payments domain, design patterns, and ISO message protocols preferred.
Familiarity with cloud, Infrastructure-as-Code (Chef/Puppet), and device cloud testing platforms.
Familiarity with lifecycle tools such as JIRA, Rally, Rational Team Concert.
Strong communication skills, including presenting to technology and business leaders.
Proven ability to lead teams and drive engineering excellence.
Demonstrated success in large-scale automation and testing initiatives.
Strong communication, influencing, and mentoring skills.

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 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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

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