Lead Performance Software Engineer Job Listing at Mastercard in Pune, MH (Job ID R-225834)

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

Lead Performance Software Engineer Overview

Prepaid Services is the division of MasterCard that concentrates on Prepaid Solutions such as our Multi-Currency Cash Passport product. Traditionally focused on the Travel sector this business unit is driving forward Prepaid throughout the world with innovative and leading solutions that we integrate with Global brands.

As part of the Test and Quality Assurance function, working within the Performance test team the role will be responsible for the design, automation and implementation of Performance testing across the Prepaid services portfolio. Working closely with the system analysts, architects, developers and product teams the analyst will be expected to understand the non-functional requirements and translate these into performance, capacity and resilience testing objectives.

They will be expected to understand the features and functionalities being delivered within the cycle and build and execute a set of scripts to measure and assess how well the system under test is performing in relation to the testing objectives.

The Analyst will be responsible for assuring overall quality of development work and ensuring that testing covers the end to end solution, working on performance test suites to increase the test coverage available per test cycle and promoting Best practices to increase testing effectiveness.

The role will involve working to strict deadlines within an agile development environment.

• Have you worked in application testing in a fast paced Agile environment?
• Are you passionate about quality?
• Can you provide innovative ideas and ensure continuous improvement as part of day to day work?
• Do you possess a high level of expertise in performance test automation and monitoring tools such JMeter, Splunk?

Role

Key Responsibilities
• Take a participatory role in the project ceremonies, for example; sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demonstrations and retrospectives
• Participate in requirements review and performance testing activities; monitor resolutions and maintain documentation
• Produce high-level and detailed estimates, utilising story points and time estimating
• Document test strategies and test plans; translating complex system requirements and associated specifications into test requirements and testing methods
• Create and maintain associated test data, manage test logs and test transactions as per defined processes and standards
• Create, maintain and enhance Test automation coverage and effectiveness
• Document and automate the performance testing of multiple websites, back office finance systems, web services
• Acts as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections
• Identify areas of improvements, introducing and championing best practices.

All About You

Key Skills and Experience
Required
• Strong understanding of Agile development lifecycle
• Experience testing across a variety of platforms; web and mobile user interface, web services (REST and SOAP) and data
• Experience of writing performance tests and scripts using JMeter or equivalent load test tool.
• Experience of writing code in one or more general purpose programming languages including C# or Java
• Experience of using Windows / UNIX / Linux / Web / Database performance monitors.
• Ability to create good performance test automation scripts and integrate with Continuous integration (Jenkins/Bamboo)
• Detailed understanding of Splunk, dynatrace and other monitoring tools with well versed to integrate them.
• Ability to create, implement various dashboards and alerting mechanism and should be able to drill it down code level analysis
• Well versed with performance, DB monitoring and query optimizations.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with great attention to detail, critical thinking
• Solid oral and written communication skills
• Able to mentor peers and perform internal stakeholder role for all performance related discussions

Desirable
• Exposure to continuous integration and delivery concepts
• Financial services experience
• Exposure to working with databases (PL/SQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
• Exposure to PowerBI, Tableau and various analytics tools.

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.

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