Lead Quality Engineer

What will you do :

• 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 (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 / 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 / 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 Needed

• BS degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline; or equivalent practical experience
• Experience leading a team
• Background of the Financial Services Industry. Knowledge on Commercial Lending Business, retail banking
• Ability to perform or lead test strategy development and delivery for less-complex projects.
• Automation Knowledge and working experience on Automation frameworks (60-70% will be automation in this role).
• Accessibility testing experience. That includes screen readers, color contrast, book marklets
• 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.
• Strong 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, Mavin, Jira / JTMF, Bitbucket

Desired :

• Proficiency in Spanish
• Splunk skills
• Testing Salesforce applications and configurations
• Automation Framework Development experience
• Experience using Unix scripting and commands, XLM, and Python.
• Data and File transfer testing for Batch Processing / Scheduling, FTP, IBM MQ / Distributed MQ
• Working experience Dev-Ops, continuous Integration and Testing
30+ days ago