Company: Mastercard
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Career Level: Mid-Senior Level
Industries: Banking, Insurance, Financial Services
Description
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
Senior Software Engineer (SDET Backend API's) Sr. Software EngineerOur 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 (https://www.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.
Overview:
The Identity Verification group within the Services division works to prevent fraud by securing a user's identity through their devices, identity information, and usage patterns such as passive Biometrics. Comprised of best-in-class solutions from Ekata and NuData Security (Mastercard companies), we use complex machine learning, a client-customizable rule engine, combined with device, identity, and transaction information from billions of transactions to reduce user friction to enable highly secure real time transactions.
The Identity Verification group is looking for a Sr Software Engineer in Test for the backend to help build out both customer facing and backend API products and services. data from our graph to deliver industry leading risk assessment solutions.
We are the Platform & API Team which is responsible for the customer facing APIs to our products and are looking for a Sr Software Engineer for our Seattle or Vancouver Canada offices. As a Sr Software Engineer, we are looking for someone who thrives on designing, coding and maintaining high performance data processing applications in functional programming on the JVM platform (which is primarily in Clojure), running on AWS. Our ideal candidate would have deep experience building internal and external latency sensitive APIs with functional programming using the most fitting tools and having the passion to champion new and exciting technologies to solve our unique and challenging problems.
Role & Responsibilities:
• Write and own technical test design and execution as a member of an Agile-based Scrum team with an emphasis on automation, tooling, and scripting skills.
• Work closely with developers throughout the sprint cycle to ensure that we deliver only high-quality features.
• A proactive attitude and the knowledge and ability to help influence and shape the QA process to drive the team to release the best possible product.
• Be able and willing to take an innovative approach towards testing and troubleshooting new technologies primarily focused on backend REST APIs.
• This is a technical position and requires writing, interpreting, and reviewing both test and application code.
All About You:
• Test automation experience. Ideally with tools like Jenkins and Cucumber
• Experience in testing APIs. Specifically REST.
• Knowledge of fundamental QA processes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of how a basic web server / application works
• Knowledge of the HTTP protocol and requests
• Manual API and web application testing experience
• Understanding how to write effective defect reports
• Ability to create and maintain test cases based on acceptance criteria
• Experience with *nix operating systems (MacOS, Linux)
• Experience using at least one high-level programming or scripting language.
• Experience using team collaboration and bug tracking tools (Jira, Bugsnag, Dynatrace etc.)
• Willing to invest time learning new tools and technologies
Helpful to have:
• Experience writing documentation and creating diagrams
• Experience working with cloud-based server environments (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Specific language knowledge: Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, shell scripting
• Experience with version control systems (Git, BitBucket, SVN, etc.)
• Experience with Selenium, Postman, or other web test automation frameworks
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment
• Experience with CI systems (Jenkins)
• An interest in fraud detection and security
Education / Experience:
• Experience in delivering secure solutions in Financial / Fraud Services Sector is preferred. Broad understanding of Software Engineering/QA Concepts and Methodologies is required. Demonstrate MC Core Competencies.
• Bachelor's or higher degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience.
In return we offer a hybrid work environment including work from anywhere weeks as per Mastercard policy. Team and Tech Hub events such as in and out of office games, sport teams, hackathons, lunch n learns, regular office lunches and other events. Don't forget the competitive salary, extended health benefits, flex-time schedules, and encouragement and support for professional development.
#AI3 Mastercard is a merit-based, 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. 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.
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.
Pay Ranges
Vancouver, Canada: $104,000 - $167,000 CADApply on company website
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