Systems Engineer Consultant

First Citizens Bank•Raleigh, NC

7d•Remote

About The Position

This is a remote role that may be hired in several markets across the US. Ensures the successful delivery of organizational transformation and goals across all business verticals, delivering high quality products. Serves as a technical resource in project planning, project management, problem resolution, and production support. Presents technical alternatives and solutions to management that are reliable, adaptable, and cost effective. Serves as the team lead for assigned projects and initiatives. Performs activities fitting to area of expertise, which may include overseeing the day-to-day tasks across multiple project test teams, providing appropriate technical recommendations, long term planning for specific business vertical, and coordinating with teams for global projects working with teams located around the world. Provides consultative direction and technical advice relating to the Bank's operating systems, software, and hardware infrastructure. Supports all areas of Technology and Operations. Leads strategic designs, initiatives, and contributes to the analysis of new and existing Bank technologies. Understands software internals, debugs problems, and automates repetitive tasks with scripting tools and user-level automation tools. Adheres to the bank’s Enterprise Software Delivery Methodology. Streamlines the testing process by introducing automation, leveraging tools and setting goals to reduce time and effort. Assists, develops, monitors and executes test activities for small to large size projects. Assists new technologies spanning applications, different operating systems, and database management systems. Coordinates network communication and application and data integration methods for new technologies. Performs planning and documentation throughout support activities. Assists processes related to strategic designs and implementations, backup, recovery, data security, and other disaster recovery functions. Resolves complex technical problems and failures and automates tasks for improved efficiencies. Assists assigned technical projects ensuring accurate, timely, and quality delivery of project objectives. Guides the development and execution of project tasks. Maintains a strong knowledge base in order to effectively create and maintain strategic technology plans and to direct others on technical matters. Communicates effective and clear technical information across platforms. Reviews and understands project or application requirements and conducts an ambiguity review. Prepares robust test strategy, test plan, and test cases. Log defects and produce status reports. Works closely with offshore vendor teams to ensure continued support and test execution in various time zones. This is a remote role that may be hired in several markets across the United States.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Management, or related field plus eight (8) years of experience in the job offered or eight (8) years as a Systems Engineer, Quality Engineer, Automation Tester, Technical Support, or related occupation. Alternatively, employer will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Management, or related field plus six (6) years of experience in the job offered or six (6) years as a Systems Engineer, Quality Engineer, Automation Tester, Technical Support, or related occupation.
Experience with building test automation framework, test automation scripting, scheduling and reporting with Selenium and Jenkins.
Experience with analyzing test scenarios.
Experience designing and converting to automation scripts.
Experience maintaining and upgrading existing automation scripts.
Experience in Automation Tools including Selenium, Eclipse, IntelliJ, and WebDriver.
Experience with the following quality assurance strategies: mocking, pairwise testing, load testing, sanity testing, performance testing, smoke testing, regression testing, black box testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
Experience in UI, API, and mobile testing.
Experience in API Tools including Swagger, rest assured and Postman.
Experience in mobile testing using BrowserStack, Sauce Lab, Android studio and Appium for android, iOS and for Tab.
Experience in installing APK builds for android/tab and iOS build from test flights.
Experience in test planning, design, test strategy and test execution of highly complex systems.
Experience in banking domain.
Experience designing and planning testing conditions, test scripts, and test data sets.
Experience with project management and issue tracking tools JIRA and ALM.
Experience with Confluence, Bitbucket, GitLab, Confluence, Cucumber, Gherkins, TestNG, Kafka,Splunk and Maven.
Experience with Java, Python, and JavaScript.
Knowledge of Test-Driven Development and Behavior-Driven Development testing methodologies.
Strong knowledge of software development life cycle and software testing life cycle.
Experience in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies.

Responsibilities

Serves as a technical resource in project planning, project management, problem resolution, and production support.
Presents technical alternatives and solutions to management that are reliable, adaptable, and cost effective.
Serves as the team lead for assigned projects and initiatives.
Oversees the day-to-day tasks across multiple project test teams.
Provides appropriate technical recommendations.
Long term planning for specific business vertical.
Coordinates with teams for global projects working with teams located around the world.
Provides consultative direction and technical advice relating to the Bank's operating systems, software, and hardware infrastructure.
Supports all areas of Technology and Operations.
Leads strategic designs, initiatives, and contributes to the analysis of new and existing Bank technologies.
Understands software internals, debugs problems, and automates repetitive tasks with scripting tools and user-level automation tools.
Adheres to the bank’s Enterprise Software Delivery Methodology.
Streamlines the testing process by introducing automation, leveraging tools and setting goals to reduce time and effort.
Assists, develops, monitors and executes test activities for small to large size projects.
Assists new technologies spanning applications, different operating systems, and database management systems.
Coordinates network communication and application and data integration methods for new technologies.
Performs planning and documentation throughout support activities.
Assists processes related to strategic designs and implementations, backup, recovery, data security, and other disaster recovery functions.
Resolves complex technical problems and failures and automates tasks for improved efficiencies.
Assists assigned technical projects ensuring accurate, timely, and quality delivery of project objectives.
Guides the development and execution of project tasks.
Maintains a strong knowledge base in order to effectively create and maintain strategic technology plans and to direct others on technical matters.
Communicates effective and clear technical information across platforms.
Reviews and understands project or application requirements and conducts an ambiguity review.
Prepares robust test strategy, test plan, and test cases.
Log defects and produce status reports.
Works closely with offshore vendor teams to ensure continued support and test execution in various time zones.