Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

About Mastercard

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 payment 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.

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

The Mastercard Payment Services team is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to ensure the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-performing systems through rigorous testing and quality practices. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented professional passionate about software quality, experienced in modern testing methodologies including ATDD, automated testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines. You will play a key role in validating mission-critical applications, mentoring junior QA team members, and collaborating across virtual teams to uphold high standards in every release.

Role Responsibilities

• Design and implement comprehensive test strategies for Java Spring Boot applications and RESTful JSON web services.
• Develop and maintain automated test suites using modern frameworks to ensure continuous quality validation.
• Apply Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) principles to align testing with business requirements and user expectations.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, and product owners to define testable requirements and ensure test coverage.
• Validate event-driven systems and cloud-native applications (e.g., Pivotal Cloud Foundry) for performance, reliability, and security.
• Lead defect triage and root cause analysis to drive resolution and improve development practices.
• Mentor junior QA analysts through peer reviews, training sessions, and documentation.
• Contribute to the evolution of QA processes and tools to support agile development and DevOps practices.

All About You

The ideal candidate for this Senior Quality Assurance Analyst position should:

• Have strong experience in testing Java Spring Boot applications and RESTful APIs.
• Be proficient in automated testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber).
• Understand and apply ATDD and CI/CD principles with a focus on test automation and integration.
• Demonstrate initiative, ownership, and clear communication in a virtual team setting.
• Show a genuine interest in mentoring and supporting less experienced QA colleagues.

Desirable Capabilities:

• Experience validating event-driven architectures and systems using Apache Kafka.
• Familiarity with secure coding standards and enterprise integration patterns from a QA perspective.
• Exposure to agile development methodologies and DevOps tooling.
• Background in the financial services or payments industry is a plus.

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 come with an inherent risk to the organization. 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.
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Key skills/competency

• Quality Assurance
• Test Automation
• Java Spring Boot
• RESTful APIs
• ATDD
• CI/CD
• Defect Triage
• Mentorship
• Agile Development
• DevOps