Leads software quality, testing, automation, and performance initiatives across applications and platforms. Develops QA standards, test strategies, automation frameworks, and quality gates; oversees unit and integration testing, code coverage, configuration quality, scalability, and performance testing. Partners with engineers and other functions to resolve production issues, evaluate tools, and implement best practices. May manage project segments and coordinate multiple testing paths.
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 Technical Program Manager
Overview
• Analyze code review reports and development quality to make sure best practices are being followed• Develops/monitors quality gating and automation strategy for a given project looking at code coverage and API vs• UI level functionality• Possesses a strong knowledge of programming, tools, architecture patterns, and BDD• Ensures Performance and Scalability for applications and platforms
Responsibilities• Works closely with software engineers to build quality by ensuring proper test and code coverage, configuration quality, monitoring, early performance testing• Develops and implements QA standards, processes, tools and methodologies; partners with other functions to establish testing requirements• Documents performance test strategies and test plans; translates complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods • Participates in requirements review and performance testing activities; monitors resolutions and retains documentation • Identifies and implements complex automation efforts; replicates and resolves production issues for single application• Defines and implements best practices for end-to-end application performance management solutions; focuses on emerging technologies• Assists in vendor assessment and evaluates and recommends software development tools• May 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 assigns day-to-day work • Translates complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods• Acts as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections• Directs evaluation of manual testing tools for automation opportunities
Experiences• Experience overseeing the coding, testing, and review process for unit and integration testing• Successfully led multiple test paths simultaneously• Successfully ensured quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standard• Experience in building automation frameworks, acceptance and integration test automation scripts, integrating with other 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:
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 Technical Program Manager
Overview
• Analyze code review reports and development quality to make sure best practices are being followed• Develops/monitors quality gating and automation strategy for a given project looking at code coverage and API vs• UI level functionality• Possesses a strong knowledge of programming, tools, architecture patterns, and BDD• Ensures Performance and Scalability for applications and platforms
Responsibilities• Works closely with software engineers to build quality by ensuring proper test and code coverage, configuration quality, monitoring, early performance testing• Develops and implements QA standards, processes, tools and methodologies; partners with other functions to establish testing requirements• Documents performance test strategies and test plans; translates complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods • Participates in requirements review and performance testing activities; monitors resolutions and retains documentation • Identifies and implements complex automation efforts; replicates and resolves production issues for single application• Defines and implements best practices for end-to-end application performance management solutions; focuses on emerging technologies• Assists in vendor assessment and evaluates and recommends software development tools• May 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 assigns day-to-day work • Translates complex system requirements and specs into test requirements and testing methods• Acts as first-review for project-level reviews, walkthroughs and inspections• Directs evaluation of manual testing tools for automation opportunities
Experiences• Experience overseeing the coding, testing, and review process for unit and integration testing• Successfully led multiple test paths simultaneously• Successfully ensured quality of one or more application codebases and alignment with development standard• Experience in building automation frameworks, acceptance and integration test automation scripts, integrating with other 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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