Quality Engineer - Fort Lauderdale, United States - Highbrow

Description

Job Title:
Quality Engineer


Job ID:

Job Location:
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Job Travel Location(s):

# Positions: 1


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:
Actively seek continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the testing process

Acquire and apply expertise in the quality engineering discipline, provide guidance, assistance, and direction to others

Identify, recommend, and effectively execute standard practices applicable to the discipline

Adhere to internal policies/procedures and applicable regulatory guidelines

Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts

Collaboratively engage with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects

Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

Monitor service, productivity and assess efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exist

Provide quick feedback throughout the development and design process; analyze, and 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 and sound test specific 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

Implement effective test strategies and providing guidance to delivery teams in using tools / setting up 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.

Understanding 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 on 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 (performance, readiness / reliability testing (ORT), accessibility, security) following agreed upon approach using available frameworks.

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, and 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 and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest

Support the team by continuously enhancing knowledge / expertise in own area and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit; Support knowledge-sharing across teams and with relevant stakeholders, ensuring knowledge is codified, monitored, tracked, and managed

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 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

Good 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

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.

3-5 years

of relevant experience.

Accessibility testing experience. That includes screen readers, color contrast, book marklets .

Background of the Financial Services Industry. Knowledge on Commercial Lending Business, retail banking, Treasury Management, and Credit Adjudication

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

Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured, TestNG, Behavior Driven Development (BDD) – Cucumber.

Experience and continuous testing mindset in CI/CD environment.

Good experience working

in Java, JSON . Ability to write code/ functions for complex scenarios, integration points and supporting multiple technologies (legacy and digital).

Excellent hands-on experience using tools

like Jenkins, Maven, Jira /JTMF, Bitbucket


Desired:
Good Spanish language skills

Splunk

Experience using Unix scripting and commands, XLM, and Python.

Data and File transfer testing for Batch Processing / Scheduling, FTP, IBM MQ / DistributedMQ

Experience in Test strategy and planning.

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