Lead Quality Engineer — CI/CD & Test Automation

Mastercard Inc.; Blanchardstown; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. is seeking a Lead, Quality Engineer to lead and scale a high-performing quality engineering team in a modern, agile, microservices-driven environment.

You will mentor engineers, manage performance, and drive ownership and collaboration to deliver high-quality, scalable payments solutions. You will design robust testing frameworks, implement automation with Karate, Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, and AI-based tools, and oversee performance and resilience testing with JMeter

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering, test automation, or software development.
• Proven experience in team building and mentoring test engineers.
• Strong understanding of Agile development, microservices architecture, and modern testing methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools: Karate, Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured.
• Familiarity with performance and resilience tools: JMeter, Chaos testing.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins; containerization with Docker; orchestration with Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end test automation strategy across the product platform.
• Mentor engineers, manage performance, foster ownership and collaboration.
• Drive in-sprint testing, shift-left quality, and test automation.
• Coordinate CI/CD pipelines and release management processes.
• Design and implement testing frameworks using Karate, Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, and AI-based tools.
• Monitor and improve Quality KPIs (coverage, MTTR, release readiness).
• Ensure performance and resilience testing using JMeter and contract testing.
• Collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to deliver high-value UX.
• Promote TDD, BDD, and quality gates (e.g., SonarQube).
• Continuously improve team processes and evaluate new QE tools.

Skills

Team leadership

Test automation

Agile methodologies

Microservices

CI/CD

Performance testing

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Karate

Selenium

Playwright

Rest Assured

JMeter

Chaos testing tools

SonarQube

AI-based testing platforms

Jenkins

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Mastercard Inc. is seeking a Lead, Quality Engineer to lead and scale a high-performing quality engineering team in a modern, agile, microservices-driven environment.

You will mentor engineers, manage performance, and drive ownership and collaboration to deliver high-quality, scalable payments solutions. You will design robust testing frameworks, implement automation with Karate, Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, and AI-based tools, and oversee performance and resilience testing with JMeter