Test Manager London, England
Mastercard
Full Time
London, England
73686 - 100000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Our 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
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.
Job Title
Test Manager
We have an exciting opportunity to come and lead in the QA team in the capacity of a Test Manager. This is a role for someone who will be working with the director and the team to own and develop the Test Automation Framework within our Payment System programs. A strong quality mindset is required for the role to warrant internal developed robust software deliveries by the team within the program.You will
- Lead a team of quality assurance and software testing professional, establishing the processes, standards and technical tooling needed to ensure the quality of software delivered to our software sale customers
- Drive quality engineering, exploratory testing and test automation with a focus on improving the quality of software
- Lead and champion technical, process and procedural improvements that drive software quality and deliver value to our customers
- Support the customer engagement and build strong relationships with your peers across the customer’s quality assurance and testing organisation
- Drive the successful acceptance by the customer of the software delivery
- Establish and develop detailed test plans, and be a contributor to the overall test strategy
You will also:
- Be an excellent clear strong communicator - spoken and written English
- Lead a quality assurance and software testing team focused on assuring the quality of software prior to deliver to software sale customers
- Work with the wider quality assurance and software testing organisation to strengthen and harmonise the tools, frameworks, processes and procedures needed to improve software quality
- Analyse, detect and address test suites to ensure test packs (i.e. regression) contain intelligent test scenarios which provide maximum test coverage
- Develop & provision test and progress reports, and be capable of highlighting risks plus potential mitigation
- Assess, select and adopt key tools and frameworks to drive automation at all levels across the team
- Automate tests through selection of pragmatic technologies and frameworks
- Oversees QA standards, processes, tools and methodologies and partner with other functions to communicate testing requirements
- Work with the wider engineering team to resolve issues that impede testing and software quality
- Possess a sense of urgency to get the job done without compromising quality
- Comprehend our delivery scope and have the capability of juggling priorities with the team
You will have experience with:
- Java 8+
- One or more build tools, e.g. Maven, Gradle etc.
- One or more open source JEE servers, e.g. Tomcat, Jetty, Websphere App Server etc.
- Automation testing experience with the ability to create test automation frameworks using open-source technologies, such as Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber/JBehave, Gherkin.
- Experience with Oracle, IBM DB2 or PostgreSQL.
- Experience of testing real-time applications (ideally in the payments space)
- Automation at acceptance test level
- Platform tests – testing a platform consisting of multiple services end to end
- Familiarity with UNIX/Linux environments and shell scripting.
- Delivery focused
- Agile Scrum
and you may also have experience with:
- Financial services and/or Payment Systems domain
- Cloud based environment (AWS / Azure)
- Scripting Programming language experience (Python or Ruby)
- Experience with Jenkins
- Knowledge of queuing technologies (RabbitMQ, Kafka etc).
- Knowledge of Docker.
- Jira and Confluence.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as code concepts using tools like Ansible, Chef, Terraform etc.
- Knowledge of Cloud technologies
In return, you will join a thriving team on an exciting journey within a payments program where there are opportunities to grow and self-develop your skills. You will learn elements of how different payment systems operate within the financial services sector and be instrumental to driving quality in our deliveries.
On top of the compensation, bonus schemes, time-off, benefits and perks, the role also offers;
- A hybrid working model with some on-site office work (flexible),
- Additional flexible working such as ‘Work from anywhere’ of up to 4 weeks a year,
- Training of new skills and receiving mentorship using ‘Unlocked’, and
- Other educational portals, to name a few.
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:
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.
