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Title and Summary

Senior Software Engineer

Job Description Summary
This position is for a member of the MasterCard development team focusing on Quality Assurance and Testing of solutions for MCBS (MasterCard Consolidated Billing System). MCBS centralizes the billing function for key MasterCard products and services into a single system while providing our customers with detailed billing information for processing services.

Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels?

Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems?

If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about an opportunity to work on our team.

About the Role:
- Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholders
- Estimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet the business requirements
- Automate build, operate, and run aspects of software
- Drive code/design/process trade-off discussions within their team when required
- Report status and manage risks within their primary application/service
- Drive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experience
- Perform demos/acceptance discussions in interacting with Product owners
- Understands operational and engineering experience and actively works to improve experience and metrics in the ownership area
- Develop a complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems
- Drive adoption of technology standards and opinionated frameworks, and review coding, test, and automation work of team members
- Mentor and guide new and less-experienced team members
- Identify opportunities to improve an overall process and trim waste
- Share and seek knowledge within their Guild/Program to drive reuse and productivity
- Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place and actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
- Support collection and reporting of project and software metrics.

About You:
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- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Management Information Systems or equivalent work experience.
- Must be high-energy, detail-oriented and proactive with the ability to function under pressure in an independent environment.
- Must provide the necessary skills to have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
- Strong communication skills -- both verbal and written – with strong relationship, collaborative skills and organizational skills.
- Ability to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
- Experience in Agile using Behavior driven development framework.
- Technical Skills in Unix Scripting, SQL, Database, Basic Mainframe Skills (Like JCL, SORT).
- Knowledge of Telecom applications CSG Singleview Billing and Intermediate will be huge plus.

Preferred Skills:
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- Experienced professional with a firm knowledge of application support, testing and quality practices and protocols that enable the individual to deliver reports according to defined protocol, while meeting established timelines.
- Demonstrated experience in testing complex products.
- Broad understanding of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies is required.
- Working knowledge of SQL, Perl and Python is a plus

Education:
BS or MS in Computer Science

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.