Software Development Engineer in Test

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together. The Bank Technology organization provides a high quality, common Webservices Integration platform for all Schwab Bank Technology needs. The Bank Technology Quality Assurance (Bank QA) team provides testing in support of our Webservices, microservices and Web based application testing. Bank QA is responsible for test strategy and planning, authoring test plans and scripts, and automating functional and regression testing. In Bank QA, we strive to embody Schwab's Through Clients' Eyes strategy through our people and creative solutions.

What you're good at:

Are you a highly skilled Automation QA Engineer with test project management and QA Lead experience? Do you live the ATDD dream, and share our expertise building QA Core Engineering practices such as Test Automation, Service Virtualization and RPA Process Automation to facilitate Test Data Creation and Maintenance? We would love to tell you more. Your responsibilities would include:

• Implement standard Agile/SAFE methodologies, resolve test issues, track, and prioritize defects, record test results, participate in product readiness and release decisions
• Participate in technical governance and help facilitate overall product quality standards with development and business teams
• Ensure automation is constantly running, analyzing, and promptly reporting on failures
• Research, investigate, implement, and mentor junior team members in the areas of Agile testing practices, Test Driven Development, Test Automation and reporting Test Metrics
• Plan and execute across multiple product teams and external partners
• Foster our end-to-end testing approach across multiple applications
• Oversee our processes for status reporting and issue remediation
• Liaise with product teams, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to integrate project plans, testing schedules, and metrics reporting
• Assist in driving Use Case and User Story reviews, and help resolve requirements ambiguities
• Partner with geographically distributed teams to plan and build our future QA Engineering practices and support our technology decisions.

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5-7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance Engineering
• 5+ years developing, executing, and maintaining automation framework for webservices and DB Testing
• 3+ years of hands-on coding experience with Java, C# or other object-oriented programming languages
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Open Source Test Automation tools such as Karate, SOATest, Selenium etc.,
• 3+ years of experience with Git, Bitbucket, Splunk, Postman tools
• Experience with Agile development practices
• Working knowledge of industry-standard tools for logging bugs and managing test cases (e.g., JIRA/MTM, Zephyr/HPQ)
• Hands-on experience with Web services virtualization and Test Data Management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Gherkin language, like Cucumber, JBehave, or SpecFlow
• Understanding of CI/CD practices and Lean DevOps methodologies
• Financial/Trading services industry experience is a plus