QA Software Engineer

Our Purpose

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 payments 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.

Title and Summary

QA Software Engineer

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
As a company, we know that our success is driven by the skills, experience, integrity and mindset of the talent we hire. By building an inclusive, world-class culture, our employees have once-in-a-career opportunities to be a part of teams that have a greater impact on our community and our world. We invite you to join our team to find out how you too can start something priceless.

Overview
In addition to our traditional payments portfolio, Mastercard is aggressively expanding into new payment flow and leveraging the digital and connected world of people and economies to deliver faster, reliable and more efficient propositions to make payments – send or receive money.
The Cross Border program is part of the wider Disbursement & Remittances business that we are looking to expand at a compounded rate of 50% per year for the next 5 years. We are building solutions to enable payments in an any-to-any format – anyone, anywhere can send or receive money using any channel – money exchanges, banks, digital wallets, cards or fintech apps – providing a seamless and unified experience for both individuals and business to move money.

We are looking for a passionate, innovative and experienced engineers with a proven track record in leading the evolution of software products and their implementation in various markets – comfortable both working hands-on as well as guiding and mentoring a team of engineers and critically always challenging the status quo and pushing and driving the technology roadmap to ensure that the solutions leverage technology to the maximum extent

Role
We are seeking a Quality Engineer II to join our dynamic team and contribute to building high-quality, scalable, and user-centric solutions in the payments domain. This is a hands-on role ideal for someone with foundational experience in software testing and automation, looking to grow in a modern, agile, microservices-driven environment.
You will work closely with senior engineers, product managers, and designers to support test planning, automation, and quality assurance efforts across the development lifecycle. This role offers opportunities to learn cutting-edge tools and practices while contributing to cloud-native initiatives and continuous delivery pipelines.

Key Responsibilities
- Participate in sprint planning and contribute to test case design and execution.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts using tools like Selenium, Playwright, Karate, or Rest Assured.
- Assist in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and test environments.
- Execute functional, regression, and API tests to ensure product quality.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and ensure test coverage.
- Support performance and resilience testing using tools like JMeter.
- Contribute to BDD/TDD practices and help maintain quality gates using tools like SonarQube.
- Document test results, defects, and provide feedback to improve product quality.
- Stay updated with emerging testing tools and practices and apply them as appropriate.

About You
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- 2–5 years of experience in software testing or test automation.
- Familiarity with Agile development and microservices architecture.
- Hands-on experience with one or more automation tools: Selenium, Playwright, Karate, Rest Assured.
- Basic understanding of performance testing tools like JMeter.
- Exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, and containerization tools like Docker.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, fluent English is a must.
- Eagerness to learn, grow, and contribute to quality engineering excellence.

Work location: Mexico City

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.