Mastercard

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

Test Automation Manager

Job title: Manager - Test Automation, Pipelines and Site Reliability, Pune, India

Overview:

Join our mission-driven team building the future of digital commerce on our rapidly scaling Priceless Platform. As a manager, you will lead team working on high-visibility projects and to achieve flawless execution. We are experiencing tremendous growth as a premium platform delivering world-class services to Mastercard’s banking partners globally.

Acquired after being a successful Silicon Valley startup, we maintain our drive for innovation and velocity even as part of Mastercard. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative, cloud native engineering culture focused on reliability and scale. You will collaborate with talented engineers, guide adoption of technologies like AWS (Amazon Web Services) and ensure operational excellence as our portfolio expands exponentially. If you are passionate about creating and validating awesome products, we want to hear from you. Together we will build on our momentum and create the future of digital commerce.

The Role

As a Test Automation and SRE manager, you will lead the team of experienced QA engineers and work on projects to enable reliability, security, and velocity on our Priceless Platform. You will work on automation and SRE practices like functional automation, mobile app testing, scale and load testing, performance testing, chaos engineering, observability, and progressive rollouts. Collaborating with platform engineers, you will guide automation of infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and more.

As a Manager, you will help build frameworks to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines across multiple languages and frameworks. With your technical expertise, you will help promote a culture of site reliability, test automation, shared ownership, and transparency. An effective communicator, you will work cross-functionally to translate business needs into appropriate engineering reliability and testing solutions. As we rapidly expand our portfolio, your principles and disciplined approach will help us scale without sacrificing quality.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative, innovative engineering culture and make an impact by working on some of our most mission-critical initiatives. We want engineers who can raise our bar for technical and cultural excellence. You will focus on the areas of test automation, CI/CD pipeline creation, and infrastructure automation. This role is based out of our Mastercard location in Pune, India and will report into Director position in SF, USA.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team of 5+ QA engineers
• Hands on implementor – in test automation, performance testing, functional automation, test data management. As well as infrastructure automation
• Collaborate with test automation engineers, exemplifying technical expertise and fostering a culture of excellence through knowledge sharing and mentorship.
• Participate in technical design reviews and code quality processes focused on reliability, security, and testability.
• Participate in SRE practices like chaos engineering, progressive rollout, and DevOps collaboration to bolster resilience.
• Work on monitoring, logging, and alerting to provide end-to-end observability.
• Shape performance and scalability via load testing
• Develop playbooks for incident response, disaster recovery, and post-mortem analyses.
• Use test automation frameworks, harnesses, and CI/CD integration for comprehensive test coverage.
• Be a part of on-call support for critical production systems on a rotating basis.
• Continuously improve SRE and test automation through emerging technologies and methodologies.
• Manage test environments, data, and infrastructure to enable comprehensive testing.

Your background and experience

• You have been working as a software engineer for 9+ years, in Test Automation, Mobile Automation, Distributes application testing.
• A track record of delivering complex technical solutions in fast-paced environments.
• Proven and enthusiastic Cloud/AWS Engineering technical experience
• Experience taking part in & leading code reviews, refactoring, gathering code quality metrics.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaborative, and organization skills.
• Deep, hands-in, understanding of AWS with hands-on ability in developing, deploying, and securing services, ideally in regulated environments.
• Experience in using code and scripts to provision, configure and manage the underlying infrastructure resources including servers, networks, databases and other components.
• Experience with software development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, test coverage,) and help to continuously improve code velocity, quality, and release frequency.
• Practitioner of automation/configuration management, deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, A/B testing, feature flags), and logging and monitoring practices for high availability.

Education:

Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

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 helps 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.

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.