Lead Software Engineer; Java - SDET

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.

Lead Software Engineer (Java - SDET)

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.

Be part of the AI&DPE team developing new capabilities for Master Card's Decision Management Platform, which serves as the core for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity. Our patented Java-based platform processes billions of transactions per month in tens of milliseconds using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our DMP team in the Vancouver office.

• Are you a strong technical engineer with experience working on high-performance applications?
• Are you excited about getting a 360-degree view of the coding world – writing code to develop a piece of code as well as writing code to test it?
• Are you passionate about making a difference in this world?
• Do you want to be part of a team that helps prevent fraud on every Mastercard transaction in the world?

This role involves working with a team of talented engineers to develop high-performance, low-latency Java-based solutions on the Fraud Management Platform. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Work closely with technical leads for assigned projects to assist in design and implementation tasks.
• Design and implement innovative, low-latency, high-performance Java-based capabilities on the Mastercard Fraud Platform.
• Work as part of a co-located Agile Scrum team.
• Define and lead Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes in the department, ensuring adequate test coverage in Unit Testing, System Testing/Integration Testing and Performance Testing.
• Document performance test strategies and test plans; translate complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods.
• Participate in requirements review and performance testing activities; monitor resolutions and retain documentation.
• Identify and implement complex automation efforts; replicate and resolve production issues for single application.
• Define and implement best practices for end-to-end application performance management solutions, focusing on emerging technologies.
• Assist in vendor assessment and evaluate and recommend software development tools.
• Manage medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative and assigning day-to-day work.
• Act as first-reviewer for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections.
• Direct evaluation of manual testing tools for automation opportunities.
• Develop high-quality, scalable and secure software solutions.
• Assist with operational issues by troubleshooting incidents.
• Research alternative technical solutions to meet changing business needs.
• Work with project team to meet due dates, while working through emerging issues and recommending solutions.
• Produce design documentation in accordance with Mastercard documentation standards.

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