Lead Engineer - Test Automation, Pipelines and Site Reliability

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 (/ mastercard. us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion. html) 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

Lead Engineer - Test Automation, Pipelines and Site Reliability

Overview: 

Join our mission-driven team building the future of digital commerce on our rapidly scaling Priceless Platform. As an engineer, you will work on high-visibility projects and help us 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 Lead Test Automation engineer and SRE, you will 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. Partnering with other Quality Engineers, you will write automated tests and shape them. Collaborating with platform engineers, you will guide automation of infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and more.  

As a Lead Engineer in the team, 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 Atlanta, GA.   

Responsibilities 

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.  

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.  

Mastercard is an 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment 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.

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