Principal QA Engineer
About The Position
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Principal QA Engineer for its Johnston, Rhode Island location. This role involves monitoring all stages of the solutions-development process, identifying and resolving defects to meet quality standards, and communicating quality standards to relevant parties. The engineer will design, conduct, and execute tests prior to launch/implementation to ensure solutions run smoothly and meet requirements cost-effectively, while also identifying test populations. Collaboration with software, network, systems, and infrastructure engineers is key to establishing an automated pipeline for solutions development and creating processes that ensure quality throughout development. The role also includes communicating and collaborating with consumers and other engineering teams for continuous feedback, researching technologies and methodologies for solutions design, and consulting with software engineering teams to shorten test cycles and lower testing costs. A continuous drive toward test-driven development is expected, along with analyzing and documenting test results and providing recommendations and solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any) or a related field
- Seven (7) years of progressive experience in the role or in a related position
- Utilizing Calypso for risk reports, trade processing, payment messages processing, and validation of accounting reports
- Conducting end-to-end testing on milestone projects, including UMR, CFTC reporting, UPI implementation, and Swap Dealer
- Validating dispute management processes in Acadia
- Validating Collateral Confirms
- Validation of market data, including curves, quotes, and pricing reports
- QA Automation using JAVA programming language with Selenium web driver for automating Web Applications and Rest APIs
- Utilizing automation tools, including SOAP UI, to achieve effective and efficient test coverage for webservices
- Utilizing POSTMAN to perform manual end points validation
- Test planning and project estimation, including testing application design to delivery
- Utilizing Gitlab, Docker, and AWS EC2 instances for CI/CD to reduce turn-around time for regression cycles
- Configuring multiple EC2 instances for automation and performance testing
- Configuring Cloud AWS on AWS EC2 to balance server load by leveraging application load balancers
- Using Appium and Ranorex tools to simulate and validate behaviors and functionalities on different mobile devices as part of mobile automation testing
- Utilizing test management tools, including JIRA, XRAY, ALM, TFS to generate project status reports, and to maintain various artifacts, including requirements, test case, execution details, and defect information
- Confirming data integrity using AS400 and My SQL in three tier architectures
- Performing backend testing as part of data seeding and validations
- Setting up agents in Azure Devops and configuring Pipelines to seamlessly streamline code validations and promotions
Responsibilities
- Monitoring all stages of the solutions-development process
- Identifying and resolving defects to meet quality standards
- Communicating quality standards to relevant parties
- Designing, conducting and executing tests prior to launch/implementation to ensure solutions run smoothly and meets requirement while being cost effective
- Identifying test-populations
- Collaborating with software, network, systems and infrastructure engineers to establish an automated pipeline for solutions development
- Developing processes and protocols that ensure quality during all stages of development
- Communicating and collaborating with consumers and other engineering teams to implement continuous feedback
- Researching technologies and methodologies as applicable to solutions design
- Consulting with software engineering teams to identify opportunities to shorten test cycles and lower testing costs
- Continuously driving toward test-driven development
- Analyzing and document test results
- Providing recommendations and solutions when appropriate
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
