Software Engineer II, Quality Job Listing at Mastercard in Arlington, VA (Job ID R-214382)

Description

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Software Engineer II, Quality Software Engineer II, Quality

As a Software Engineer II, Quality on the Data & Services Technology team, you'll hold a valued role within a rapidly growing and successful firm, working closely with experienced and driven engineers to solve problems as a team. Innovative product opportunities, modern business questions, and intricate datasets present uniquely challenging problems that we are eager to take on. Mastercard's D&S platform blends industry-leading analytics, advanced software architecture, and the latest web technologies to face these problems. Our software is required to effectively decipher analytically complex insights from these problems, on which businesses base multi-million-dollar business decisions.

As a member of the SpendingPulse team based in Arlington, you will bring your testing skills to drive the quality of the Market Insights application to provide economic insights across geographies to our customers. We work with cutting-edge web technologies and analyze large datasets using Big Data technologies within a Hadoop ecosystem to create a scalable, high-performance platform. We are looking for an innovative software quality engineer who can design and execute test plans for key full-stack features and our data pipeline and thrive in a fast-paced, agile team. The range of work you encounter varies from writing automated tests to ensuring analytical accuracy and beyond. This individual will be part of a large, cross-functional team and collaborate closely with our Customer Experience, Product Development, and Data Engineering & Analytics teams.

Position Responsibilities:

As a Software Quality Engineer II, you will:
• Test large, complex features used by some of the world's largest organizations to make multi-million-dollar decisions
• Ensure that calculations are correct in all possible circumstances
• Manage and coordinate large testing and release efforts with continuous delivery
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automated testing processes
• Ensure an intuitive user experience which can drive value for users
• Own the quality of data pipelines responsible for the generation of millions of analytic results
• Innovate and continually learn and work with new technologies
• Invest in personal growth and take on team responsibilities
• Collaborate across teams with exceptional peers who are passionate about what they do
• Advocate for and establish quality best practices across cross functional teams
• Work with Product Managers and Customer Experience Designers to develop a deep understanding of users and use cases and apply that knowledge to testing new features
• Ensure the timely release of new features and data, on which dozens of clients depend each week
• Drive improvements to team and testing processes

Ideal Candidate Qualifications:
• 3+ years of experience as a Software Quality Engineer, Software Engineer in Test, Test Automation engineer, Developer or related occupation, leveraging software QA tools and processes.
• Strong knowledge and hands-on programming experience with Python.
• Experience with a variety of different testing techniques such as UI testing, Automated testing, Test driven development strategies etc.
• Proficiency in agile framework, unit testing libraries/framework (.Net Framework preferred), UI Automation Tool (Cypress), code management tool (Git), deployment tools (Jenkins)
• Excellent SQL skills to work on large and complex data sources and capability of comprehending and writing complex queries
• Highly motivated professional with excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
• Ability to independently develop and execute test plans including manual, automated, unit, and performance testing
• Strong technologist eager to learn new testing tools and technologies
• Demonstrated analytical / quantitative problem solving
• Motivation, creativity, self-direction, and desire to thrive on small project teams
• Keen sense of prioritization and ability to time

#LI-TE1 In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

Arlington, Virginia: $106,000 - $169,000 USD

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