Lead Software Engineer
Mastercard1 day ago
Warsaw, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead quality engineering efforts for major initiatives and business-critical features.
- Define and drive test automation strategies across multiple applications and services.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks in Java.
- Establish quality standards, test practices, and release readiness criteria.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve testability, development workflows, shift-left testing, and automation adoption.
- Drive improvements in CI/CD pipelines, deployment confidence, and release quality.
- Analyze production issues, lead root cause analysis, and drive long-term quality improvements.
- Mentor and coach engineers in testing, automation, and quality engineering practices.
- Influence technical direction and contribute to architecture discussions focused on reliability, scalability, and quality.
Requirements
- Significant experience in software engineering, test automation, or software development in test.
- Strong Java development skills, including experience building automation frameworks and engineering solutions.
- Experience testing APIs, UI applications, distributed systems, and cloud-native services.
- Deep understanding of software quality practices, test strategy, and risk-based testing.
- Experience leading quality initiatives across multiple teams or complex projects.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and modern software delivery.
- Ability to influence technical direction and drive improvements without direct authority.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with cloud platforms, microservices architectures, engineering standards, automation strategies at scale, mentoring, developer platforms, API ecosystems, developer experience tooling, performance testing, reliability testing, and observability testing.
About Mastercard
Mastercard builds and operates a global payments network used by banks, merchants, fintechs, and governments, offering card processing, real-time payments, tokenization, and fraud/risk services. It generates revenue from transaction processing and assessment/service fees across more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, Mastercard is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: MA).