Quality Engineer III

TD Bank•Lewiston, ME

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Engineer III is a senior quality professional responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality technology solutions through comprehensive manual testing, quality assurance practices, and collaboration across Agile delivery teams. This role serves as a quality advocate throughout the software development lifecycle, partnering with Product Managers, Product Owners, Developers, and stakeholders to validate business requirements, refine user stories, define acceptance criteria, and ensure solutions meet functional, integration, and business expectations. The Quality Engineer III leads testing efforts for medium to large-scale initiatives, developing test strategies, designing and executing detailed test scenarios, and ensuring full traceability between requirements and testing outcomes. They proactively identify risks, document and manage defects, provide quality reporting, and help teams implement effective testing practices. This role also mentors other Quality Engineers, promotes continuous improvement, and drives quality standards across multiple initiatives.

Requirements

BS degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline; or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of relevant experience
Strong academic background (e.g., software engineering, computer science)
Strong expertise in manual functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
Experience analyzing business requirements and translating them into test scenarios and test cases.
Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
Proficiency with quality management and defect tracking tools such as JIRA and JTMF.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and mentorship skills.
Ability to independently lead testing efforts while influencing quality outcomes across multiple teams.

Nice To Haves

Encompass Experience
Residential Mortgage and/or Home Equity Lending Experience
Quality Engineering, Quality Assurance, or Software Testing experience.

Responsibilities

Accountable for Test Strategy deliverables, planning, test design /development, test case automation and test execution to achieve business outcomes for medium to high complexity scope.
Integrates directly into a team’s continuous delivery process, augmenting the delivery of quality software and ensuring speed, agility, and risk management.
Provides leadership, direction and feedback throughout the development and design processes; provides test development / automation support to ensure that the quality of the intended solution is met.
Able to determine testing impacts for multiple delivery teams and scale accordingly to ensuring positive business outcomes.
Responsible for activities related to risk identification and mitigation and validating that business outcomes are achieved.
Drives quality and metrics making improvements in delivery; works on becoming a leader in innovation.
Utilizes advanced domain knowledge & ability to understand technical solutions to build an optimized Test Approach, inclusive of the tooling strategy.
Effectively engineers and leverages virtual assets to support virtualization of any incomplete / unavailable code, service, database, etc.
Have strong knowledge of test data management to reuse automated test data provisioning capabilities to be able to adopt a standard test data tool set.
Leads deployment and implementation of tools / processes / resources and automation for functional and/or non-functional testing (performance, readiness / reliability testing (ORT), accessibility, security) approach, frameworks, and ensures automated tests are integrated into the continuous integration, delivery, and testing (CI/CD/CT) pipelines.
Identifies opportunities for test asset reusability and efficiencies in test approach.
Proactively seeks continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and responsible for developing, documenting, and proactively identifying end-to-end test solution designs and early automation opportunities within the testing process.
Leads team and collaborates cross-functionally with development, business analysts, etc. to ensure proper assessment of user stories including acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD) / Ready (DoR).
Applies Coach and mentors others on the principles of behavior / Test Driven Development (BDD / TDD) and focuses on value driven outcomes.
Provides advanced test development support.
Accountable for test architecture activities.
Sitting at the Product Group (PG) level, act as a quality expert working across numerous development teams in medium complexity deliveries.
Acts as an expert who can quickly troubleshoot and accountable for use of automation frameworks across numerous delivery teams as needed.
Ensures quality of source code; looking for opportunities to effectively leverage tools and engineering practices (DevOps tools and processes, SV, monitoring tools and process, etc.).
Accountable for early contributions to the design and development process / to ensure built-in-quality code.
Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to quality engineering activities.
Ensures respective programs/ policies/practices are well managed, meets business needs, complies with internal and external requirements, and aligns with business priorities.
Collaboratively engages with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects.
Actively seeks and supports continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the quality engineering practice.
Conducts meaningful analysis at the functional or enterprise level using data to draw conclusions, makes recommendations, assesses the effectiveness of programs/ policies/ practices.
Identifies opportunities to minimize cost, provides recommendations and/or deliver corresponding strategic solutions to support cost effectiveness and to enhance stakeholder experience.
Conducts test assets reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability, and ease of maintenance.
Monitors service, productivity and assesses efficiency levels within own function and implements continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exist.
Leads / facilitates and/or implements actions / remediation plans to address performance / risk /governance issues.
Actively manages relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensures alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements.
Protects the interests of the organization – identifies and manages risks, and escalates nonstandard, high-risk activities as necessary.
Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts.
Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite.
Participates fully as a member of the team, supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation, and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/ points of interest.
Provides thought leadership and/or industry knowledge for quality engineering best practices and participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit.
Keeps current on emerging trends/ developments and grows knowledge of the business, related tools, and techniques.
Participates in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team.
Keeps others informed and up to date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities.
Actively mentors and enables team members by sharing knowledge and leveraging engineering best practices.
Supports the team by providing guidance and proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Leads, motivates and develops relationships with internal and external business partners / stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
Contributes to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
Acts as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally.