Lead Quality Engineer

Job Title : Lead Quality Engineer

Job ID: 2022-11895

Job Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL (onsite reporting required)

Job Travel Location(s):

# Positions: 2

Employment Type: W2

Candidate Constraints:

Duration: Long Term

# of Layers: 0

Work Eligibility: US Permanent Eligibility to Work Required

Key Technology: financial services industry experience, automation, Java, JSON, Jenkins, relational databases

Job Responsibilities:

• Provides quick feedback throughout the development and design process; analyzes / reports on the test results to confirm that the quality of the intended solution is met.
• Supports test planning (including testability of requirement), test design/development test case automation and test execution to achieve business outcomes.
• Integrates directly into a team’s continuous delivery process, augmenting the delivery of quality software and ensuring speed, agility and risk management.
• Serve as a partner and provide ongoing support to the enterprise and/or business, aligning to Testing Methodology and QE best-practices.
• Analyze the end-to-end solution (business, solution requirements, architecture, blueprints, etc.) requirements to recommend pragmatic solutions for own area; may analyze, develop, debug, and maintain test suites (automated/manual), traceability matrix; and log defects/assist in defect resolution, as required.
• Hands on experience implementing effective test strategies and providing guidance to delivery teams in using tools, setting environments that support on-going quality and traceability.
• Support the team in test activities across the testing lifecycle, with a focus on value driven outcomes, and assist in defining test data and test environment requirements.
• Leverage virtual assets to support virtualization of any incomplete/unavailable code, service, database, etc.
• Basic knowledge of test data management to reuse automated test data provisioning capabilities to be able to adopt a standard test data tool set.
• May begin to support source code management looking for opportunities to effectively leverage tools and engineering practices (DevOps tools and processes, SV, monitoring tools and process, etc.).
• Contribute early to the design and development process to ensure built-in-quality code.
• Implement test scripts ensuring they are integrated into the continuous integration, delivery, and testing (CI/CD/CT) pipeline for functional and non-functional automation.
• Responsible and/or accountable for documenting and supporting the proactive identification of end-to-end test solution designs and early automation opportunities.
• Work collaboratively with the development team to define and validate appropriate user stories, acceptance criteria and definitions of done/ready.
• Apply the principles of Behavior/Test-Driven Development (BDD/TDD) and focus on value driven outcomes.
• Provide feedback, reporting and analytics on overall quality/performance, user experience, and future bug prevention.

Shareholder

• Contribute to various operational activities and prescribed engineering processes.
• Be knowledgeable of quality engineering practices and procedures within own area of responsibility and keep abreast of emerging trends for own functional area.
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high-risk activities as necessary.
• Conduct internal and external research projects; support the development/delivery of presentations/communications to management or broader audience.

Employee/Team

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork.
• Support the team by continuously enhancing knowledge/expertise in own area and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit.
• Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality.
• Keep current on emerging trends/developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques.
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team.
• Keep 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.
• Contribute to the success of the team by willingly assisting others in the completion and performance of work activities; provide training, coaching and/or guidance as appropriate.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally.

Breadth & Depth

• Experienced working professional role providing specialized testing planning, design, automation and execution services.
• Solid debugging and problem-solving skills – solving moderately complex problems.
• Supports the introduction and adherence to new/advanced techniques and approaches in testing and automation (e.g., BDD, Rapid Software Testing).
• Foundational experience in software configuration and code management.
• Intermediate expertise in build/code/release management to enable defect avoidance.
• Solid business and technology acumen, works with other stakeholders to identify opportunities to benefit the Client and/or introduce operational improvements.
• Ability to drive work efforts related to moderately complex applications/systems/projects within one product line/business.
• Ability to work independently and with minimal guidance and direction.
• Inspire a positive work environment and help champion quality, innovation, teamwork, and service to the business.
• Learn voraciously, stretch your thinking.
• Collaborative team player.
• Future focused – foresees issues and gaps and identifies industry trends.

Skills and Experience Required:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline; or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in a lead capacity.
• Background of the Financial Services Industry. Knowledge on Commercial Lending Business, retail banking, Treasury Management, and Credit Adjudication.
• Strong experience working in Java and JSON. Ability to write code/functions for complex scenarios, integration points and supporting multiple technologies (legacy and digital).
• Ability to perform or lead test strategy development and delivery for less-complex projects.
• Talent and strength in writing scripts and scenarios, (as per methodology).
• Readiness to participate in testing processes, strategies, plans, methodologies.
• Ability to guide project managers and testing coordinators, manage defect management and resolution process, act as primary contact on testing projects, if required.
• Adeptness at testing risks and coordinating test environment.
• Prior CRM/Integration implementation experience from Testing/QA standpoint.
• Working experience Dev-Ops, continuous Integration and Testing in CI/CD environment.
• Strong experience in understanding functional requirements, plan, design and execute end-to-end tests.
• Create & execute the integration and end-to-end test scenarios & cases.
• Strong experience in test automation development for full stack components using Parasoft SOATest, Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured, TestNG, Business Driven Development (BDD), Cucumber.
• Excellent hands-on experience using tools like Jenkins, Mavin, Jira/JTMF, Bitbucket.
• Relational Database – SQL writing and understanding of queries, and statements.
• Experience with API testing.

Desired:

• Strong experience working with Splunk.
• Experience in Test strategy and planning.
• Test Leadership experience.
• Testing Salesforce applications and configurations.
• Mobile/Device testing experience Accessibility Testing.
• Automation Framework Development experience.
• Experience using Unix scripting and commands, XML, and Python.
• Data and File transfer testing for Batch Processing/Scheduling, FTP, IBM MQ/DistributedMQ.
• Proficiency in French or Spanish.