**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** Lead Software Engineer Overview We are seeking a talented Lead Software Development Engineer in Test to lead the design and test automation strategy for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) to validate application functionality and performance based on refined acceptance criteria, using methodologies, tools, strategies, and standards based on best practices in Agile software testing and continuous integration and deployment.  Role Play a pivotal role on the Agile team in the continuous validation of web applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions  Design and develop test automation scenarios to validate system to system interfaces and complete software solutions (for API and UI tests)   Interact with business and development stakeholders to define test plans and schedules  Translate complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods  Identify and implement complex automation efforts, including refactoring of automation code where needed  Work closely with software engineers to build quality in, ensuring proper test and requirement coverage, configuration quality, monitoring, early performance testing  Generate test data for defined test cases, recognize test environment preparation needs, and execute existing test plans and report results  Participate in project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections, and conduct test reviews, including test plans, requirements, cases and automation coverage  Document performance test strategies and test plans, and execute performance validation  Collect quality metric data and communicate test status/risks to stakeholders  Work closely with developers to identify code defects or regressions  Closely adhere to quality standards and assist team members in validating application functionality through the implementation of test strategies, frameworks, tools, reports, etc.  Assist in planning and documenting test strategies and acceptance criteria based on customer needs  Participate in requirements review, story elaborations and testing activities  Design, code, and construct automation tests; escalate issues during testing  Provide automation tests for operations teams to use in Ci/Cd automated quality gates  Perform Exploratory testing as required  Raise process improvement opportunities  Act as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections  Provide technical support and mentoring to junior team members  Perform demos of new product functionality to stakeholders    All About You Experienced in advanced code development, code review, and construction and use of automation frameworks  Experienced in building automation frameworks as well as acceptance and integration test automation scripts  Successfully developed high quality test strategies and text execution Analyse application logs and utilise basic debugging techniques  Successfully validated one or more applications via automation, for new feature functionality and regression testing  Experienced in Agile testing methodologies and tools, unit and integration testing, and data virtualization tools  Good understanding of validation techniques and Continuous Testing  Familiarity with UI automation frameworks, tools, and techniques to validate user interfaces (mobile, portal, web, etc.)  Able to mentor peers and guide less experienced Team members  Technical Skills : UI Automation: Playwright/Cypress Mandatory, API Automation: Playwright Mandatory. Load Test Framework: JMeter and Gatling: Mandatory, Zephyr/Xray: Mandatory, AXE Core: Intermediate, Programming Language: Javascript: Mandatory, Java: Intermediate, Scala: Intermediate, TypeScript: Intermediate, Python: Intermediate, DB: SQL - Mandatory, Databricks - Intermediate, CI/CD: Mandatory, Jenkins - Mandatory, Bitbucket/Git: Mandatory, AWS - Beginner, Azure: intermediate, Rally - Intermediate, Jira - Mandatory. Design Architecture Technology R&D Project Management Requirements Assessment Software Development Agile Development Automation and DevOps   Professional Skills Business Acumen   Commercial Focus  Future Focus  Global Perspective  Innovation and thought leadership  People Leadership  Personal Influence  **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.