Lead Quality Engineer — Test Automation & CI/CD

Mastercard Inc.; Blackrock; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Leadership development opportunities

Access to cutting-edge tools

Competitive compensation and benefits

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. in Ireland seeks a Lead, Quality Engineer to scale a high-performing quality engineering team in a modern, microservices-driven environment. You will mentor engineers, own test strategy, and drive automation across CI/CD pipelines.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure scalable, resilient, and secure payments solutions while advancing TDD/BDD, KPI monitoring, and cutting-edge testing tools.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end test automation strategy, including NFR tracking and validation for performance, scalability, reliability, and security.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
• Drive in-sprint testing, shift-left quality, and test automation across the XBS platform.
• Plan, coordinate, and manage CI/CD pipelines and release management processes.
• Design and implement robust testing frameworks using Karate, Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, and AI-based tools.
• Monitor Quality KPIs (test coverage, defect leakage, MTTR, release readiness).
• Ensure performance and resilience via JMeter, chaos testing, and contract testing.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to deliver intuitive, high-value user experiences.
• Promote TDD/BDD and quality gating with SonarQube.
• Continuously improve team processes, tools and testing strategies.
• Stay current with QE trends and adopt new tools and practices.

Skills

Software quality engineering

Test automation

Team leadership

Agile

Microservices

JMeter

Selenium

Playwright

Rest Assured

CI/CD

Java

Python

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Karate

Selenium

Playwright

Rest Assured

JMeter

SonarQube

Jenkins

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

API testing

Job description

Mastercard Inc. in Ireland seeks a Lead, Quality Engineer to scale a high-performing quality engineering team in a modern, microservices-driven environment. You will mentor engineers, own test strategy, and drive automation across CI/CD pipelines.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure scalable, resilient, and secure payments solutions while advancing TDD/BDD, KPI monitoring, and cutting-edge testing tools.