Quality Assurance, Officer
About The Position
Charles River Development (CRD) is the FinTech division of State Street. CRD Engineering organization is innovating and transforming the platform by moving away from monolithic software to utilizing next generation cloud-based technology that leverages Microsoft Azure, Kafka, Snowflake, etc. CRD has grown over 135% in headcount over the last 5 years and continues to grow. As a digital innovation leader, CRD invests into its solutions, processes, systems, and talent. This role is within the automation center of excellence team, responsible for executing the overall quality plan for Charles River’s products. The candidate will provide support and assistance to customers and other teams within Charles River. The ideal candidate is a sharp automation framework engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a solid automation test framework building foundation. This role requires a talented, detail-oriented, enthusiastic individual who is passionate about quality with the ability to grasp tough issues quickly and deliver well-engineered, high-quality solutions. The candidate will build out the next generation of the software test automation framework, pipeline, and infrastructure as part of the Quality Assurance Infrastructure team. This position is responsible for developing, delivering, and supporting the software infrastructure that enables automated product validation. This position provides services for planning and the execution of central automated regression runs for all product departments. In addition, the candidate is responsible for maintaining and expanding the labs which host both automated and manual testing as well as conducting staging and certification of the product media during the ship-stage of a release. Financial services industry experience is preferred.
Requirements
- B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study or Business with an MIS background.
- 2 - 4 years of experience in building tools and supporting test automation frameworks in an enterprise, process-driven environment
- Strong programming skills in JAVA, C# , shell scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash
- Demonstrated experience implementing and executing automation test scripts against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications.
- Demonstrated experience using test cases, scripts, and automated test tools for verifying requirements on multi-tier applications
- Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans
- Effective written and verbal communication.
Nice To Haves
- MS degree strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience implementing automation tools and framework with industry standard tools like Rest Assured, Playwright, Azure SDK, Kafka SDK, Cosmos DB, Swagger, Silk4Net, FlaUI, Talend strongly preferred
- Experience with creating and updating on-demand pipelines and experience with relevant tools TeamCity, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD is preferred
- Knowledgeable in one or more CRD functional areas is a plus
- A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the team of developers in the QA COE to build tools needed for the QA Engineering team from the ground up
- Expand the test automation framework capabilities needed to comprehensively test business requirements for all products and services
- Create pipelines to execute automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests
- Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing
- Align with the Software Development Life Cycle practices, comply with Information Security and Data Governance practices
- Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in issue tracking system; proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members
- Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team’s QA methodology, innovate by researching and recommending new approaches to automation of testing, including use of Artificial Intelligence
- Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery
- Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
- Participate in “testathon” activities as required by releases
- Guide and mentor junior staff in best practices and proper creation of automated test scripts.
Benefits
- our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
- insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
- paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
- access to our Employee Assistance Program
- incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
- eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
- inclusive development opportunities
- flexible work-life support
- paid volunteer days
- vibrant employee networks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
