Software Quality Assurance

State Street•Boston, MA

2d•Remote

About The Position

Software Quality Assurance (State Street Bank & Trust Company)(Boston, MA): The Software Quality Assurance position is for an experienced software professional working on State Street’s internal, proprietary Enterprise Servicing Platform, a Data warehouse tool. The position necessitates a thorough understanding of leading IT technologies and the software development lifecycle for application testing. Duties include: Working directly with the project team to understand the business requirements that will help define the overall software test strategy and test plans in order to execute test cases via automated tools; Working directly with users, analysts, and developers to understand business processes and the software applications subject to testing, in order to deliver highquality software to our clients; Developing specific tests for any new software enhancement in the existing and new IT applications, both manual and automated tests as warranted; Developing automated tests for both Front end level (through front end framework using Selenium) and Backend level (through backend framework using JAVA/SQL); Developing Infrastructure As Code tests from scratch in a feature files using Gherkin; Validating Infrastructure on Azure like storage accounts, cosmos DB, event grid, event hub, Postgres DB are as per the specifications; Develop and maintain Azure Devops CICD Pipelines to Deploy and execute IAC Automated tests; Develop and maintain Automate test cases to validate connectivity to azure resources from AKS; Develop and maintain deployment yamls to create secret store and validate secrets; Validating AKS add-on like CSI Driver, Keda, Ingress controller; Develop and maintain Docker images by writing Docker files; Participating in the metrics gathering process in order to propose and implement ongoing improvements; Interacting with peers within the Company’s QA organization to proactively determine and resolve upstream and downstream impacts; Collaborating with peers on cross-functional teams, primarily utilizing agile methodologies, to deliver high-quality software solutions; Ensuring proper procedures and controls are in place throughout the software testing process; Utilizing knowledge of objectoriented design and coding; Micro-Services and the calls between them; different databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL etc.) and competent SQL query; Development-Operations, including code builds, deployment and environment set up operations; and software engineering standards, metrics, and quality assurance principles in the performance of job duties. Full-time telecommuting permitted pursuant to company policy.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or its equivalent; plus 2 year(s) of experience in IT technologies and the software development lifecycle for application testing. Alternatively, the employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or its equivalent; plus 5 year(s) of experience in IT technologies and the software development lifecycle for application testing.
Demonstrated experience in object-oriented design and Java
Demonstrated experience coding with automated testing frameworks including Selenium
Demonstrated experience working on tools like Azure Devops, Jenkins, Terraform, GIT, JFrog Artifactory, JIRA and Confluence
Demonstrated experience in Docker, AKS and Kubernetes
Demonstrated experience Developing frameworks for backend testing using Java, Rest Assured, Cucumber, Test NG
Demonstrated experience setting up CICD Pipelines using Jenkins, RTC, Azure Devops
Demonstrated experience writing dockerfiles to create docker images
Demonstrated experience writing yaml files for deployments, ADO Pipelines
Proven experience with different databases including Oracle and PostgreSQL
Demonstrated experience coding complex SQL queries
Proven knowledge of development-operations including code builds, deployment and environment set up operations
Demonstrated experience in financial software services
Proven ability to pay strong attention to detail
Demonstrated experience in software quality assurance in a software environment through all stages of product development
Proven ability to problem solve and communicate interpersonal and analytical skills
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple deadlines
Proven knowledge of software engineering standards metrics and quality assurance principles

Responsibilities

Working directly with the project team to understand the business requirements that will help define the overall software test strategy and test plans in order to execute test cases via automated tools
Working directly with users, analysts, and developers to understand business processes and the software applications subject to testing, in order to deliver highquality software to our clients
Developing specific tests for any new software enhancement in the existing and new IT applications, both manual and automated tests as warranted
Developing automated tests for both Front end level (through front end framework using Selenium) and Backend level (through backend framework using JAVA/SQL)
Developing Infrastructure As Code tests from scratch in a feature files using Gherkin
Validating Infrastructure on Azure like storage accounts, cosmos DB, event grid, event hub, Postgres DB are as per the specifications
Develop and maintain Azure Devops CICD Pipelines to Deploy and execute IAC Automated tests
Develop and maintain Automate test cases to validate connectivity to azure resources from AKS
Develop and maintain deployment yamls to create secret store and validate secrets
Validating AKS add-on like CSI Driver, Keda, Ingress controller
Develop and maintain Docker images by writing Docker files
Participating in the metrics gathering process in order to propose and implement ongoing improvements
Interacting with peers within the Company’s QA organization to proactively determine and resolve upstream and downstream impacts
Collaborating with peers on cross-functional teams, primarily utilizing agile methodologies, to deliver high-quality software solutions
Ensuring proper procedures and controls are in place throughout the software testing process

Benefits

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: 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); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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