Full Job DescriptionAt Mastercard, our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force for good in the world and to doing well by doing good. Mastercard relies on our global workforce to help us achieve our goal of building a sustainable, inclusive global economy. The Mastercard Way encourages us, connects us with the behaviors that represent the essence of not only what we do but who we are as an organization. Cultivating an environment for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views and experiences drives a global and collaborative culture of inclusion and sense of belonging.
MasterCard software engineering teams leverage Agile development principles, advanced development and design practices, and an obsession over security, reliability, and performance to deliver solutions that delight our customers. We’re looking for talented software development engineers to develop advanced technologies and applications that are revolutionizing payments.
Are you passionate about Performance Engineering?
Are you an experienced professional who is passionate about innovative technology – specifically performance testing, performance profiling, web/mobile and database performance real-time monitoring and tools – and its potential to help create a world beyond cash?
Do you know how to create performance dashboard comparing and contrasting end-user performance needs to test results, and highlight performance/capacity blockers?
Do you have a motivation to drive Performance Test automation and self-service culture as a part of software delivery practices?
Do you thrive in a place where you are continuously learning more while growing your skills and career?
Do you want to join an inclusive culture where employees, in all their diversity, feel valued, respected and who can bring their authentic selves to work? Learn more at Mastercard’s Corporate Sustainability Report.
Role:
Develop performance test plans and roadmap, as well as partner with delivery teams to implement the strategy.
Participate in requirements review and performance testing activities to ensure the quality and functionality of assigned MDES systems.
Develop, manage and maintain an automation framework that can support reusable automated test cases and test data.
Support in performance test strategy and test plans covering environment, schedule, test data set up, testing techniques, and key SLA metrics keeping end-user requirements and customer experience in mind.
Partner with different stakeholders (like PMT’s, TPM’s, LE’s, PE’s) and development teams to develop real-time performance dashboards and provide periodic updates on application performance to the senior management teams.
Implement best practices for end-to-end application performance management solutions including Proof of Concepts and Tools evaluation and selection – specifically in the area of emerging technologies (Web, Mobile, Cloud technologies like PCF, AWS).
Develop business and product knowledge over time and share such knowledge to mentor newer team members. This is not a management position; however, this position is expected to provide strong leadership to junior members of the staff.
Adhere to and enforce consistent company and department testing standards and proceed.
Remain current with new testing technologies.
Must have soft skills as well as technical in order to Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment. Public speaking as a technology evangelist for Mastercard.
About You:
Degree in Computer Science or related field.
Hands on experience on working with C, Java, SQL, RDBMS (Oracle and PostGRES), NoSQL (Cassandra)and Web-services (JSON and SOAP).
Good understanding of Java/JVM architecture, JVM tuning, GC, Class loading, Thread Dump Analysis, JMX based JVM monitoring.
Sound knowledge and experience of Performance testing and monitoring tools ( at least 2) JMeter, VSTS, LoadRunner, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, SiteScope, Grafana, Kibana
Good understanding of Oracle Architecture. SQL, PL/SQL, Performance Stats, SQL tuning, Explain plan, Tracing tools, Hints, Fragmentation, Partitions, familiarity with at least one Oracle tool like TOAD.
Good Unix & Linux skills, ability to write shell scripts for information gathering purposes.
Good understanding of Load Balancer mechanisms, Virtual servers, Virtual Pools, Rules, Connection & Cookie persistence.
Experience in creating NFR’s, capacity planning, and performance tuning for large products.
Experience in cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, NoSQL databases), micro-service design, CI/CD, Dev-Ops would be added advantage.
Expert level analytical and excellent problem-solving skills.
Strong written and verbal English communications skills.
Experience working in an Agile environment.
Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together.
Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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.
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Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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, andComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.