Quality Engineer/Test Automation Specialist at Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) in New York, New York

Job Description:

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York positions you at the center of the financial world with a unique perspective on national and international markets and economies. You will work in an environment with a diverse group of experienced professionals to foster and support the safety, soundness, and vitality of our economic and financial systems.  

 

The Bank believes in work flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also connecting and collaborating with our colleagues in person. Employees can expect to be in the office a couple of days per week as needed for meetings and team collaboration and should live within a commutable distance. 

What we do: 

The Quality Engineer within the Markets Technology Function is responsible for overall quality assurance and testing of IT solutions. Participates in every phase of the development process in an agile squad to ensure that the product adheres to business needs. Tests strategy, execution, automation, and quality metrics along with coaching.

Your role as Quality Engineer/Test Automation Specialist:

Responsible for executing Quality Engineering practices and test automation within a product squad and coaching other quality engineering staff.  Ensuring that the staff provide Agile quality practices for product development through vision and implementation.

Drive recruitment, development, and evaluation of Quality Engineering Chapter members; foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement that brings knowledge consistency and spreads best practices across the Function. Identify and implement advanced Quality Engineering principles proactively to improve product delivery quality on a continuous basis.

• Design and develop automated test scripts that ensure applications meet their functional and non-functional requirements.


• Support the DevSecOps vision by designing automation to integrate with build pipelines, and other automated unit, integration, and system tests.


• Provide technical support to and conduct code reviews of other software engineers


• Promote innovation and evolution of quality engineering techniques, test automation technologies and ensure pervasive quality in product development.


• Devise and influence test strategies for mission critical systems and implement comprehensive test coverage for complex changes that require testing efforts to span across multiple products and squads.


• Drive Agile adoption and find opportunities for gaining efficiencies in quality practices, thereby reducing end-to-end testing cycle times for mission critical applications.


• Influence and support adoption of DevSecOps in agile teams by enabling shift left testing.


• Promote agility and demonstrate cross functional skills by taking on development and other non-QE related tasks


• Identify and provide continuous development (e.g., training, mentoring) of other quality engineers and foster a community of quality oversight.


• Proactively coach all squad members on quality culture from vision to implementation.

What we are looking for:

• Improve the quality of our integrated set of financial applications while enabling a faster time to market through the use of test automation, CI/CD, and Cloud technologies.


• Ability to excel in a quality engineering role while also possessing the technical proficiency to contribute to the software development tasks necessary for the journey towards the Cloud/DevSecOps.


• Experience in Agile cross-functional teams and iterative development methodologies, with extensive experience delivering solutions across different technical environments.


• Experience in building Java-based test automation and working with automated frameworks and tools (Selenium and REST Assured automation experience is a plus).


• RDBMS and SQL experience.


• Cloud-based application testing and related technologies such as NoSQL databases (MongoDB), Message queues (Kafka/IBM MQ), and Containers (AWS ECS, Docker, etc.).


• Experience with hands-on development and code reviews for unit, integration, and system tests.


• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery platforms such as Gitlab, Jenkins and Selenium Grid.


• Experience with using Java-related toolsets such as Maven, the Eclipse or IntelliJ IDE, and the Spring framework.


• Strong understanding of risk-based test strategy preparation based on all stories and non-functional requirements of mission critical systems.


• Solid understanding of, and experience in, Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Test Driven Development (TDD), defining enterprise-wide standards for product quality, establishing and managing KPIs for the Quality in our products.


• Solid comprehension, training, and experience in leveraging dynamic test environments, cloud technologies, test data management strategies and test infrastructure design.

Salary Range: $155000 - $200000 / year  

We believe in transparency at the NY Fed. This salary range reflects a variety of skills and experiences candidates may bring to the job. We pay individuals along this range based on their unique backgrounds. Whether you’re stretching into the job or are a more seasoned candidate, we aim to pay competitively for your contributions.  

  

Our Touchstone Behaviors—Communicate Authentically, Collaborate Inclusively, Drive Progress, Develop Others, and Take Ownership—help shape the culture of the Bank. They also provide a shared language for how we work together and achieve success, and they set clear expectations for leading with impact at every stage of your career with us. Learn more.  

  

Benefits:  

Our organization offers benefits that are the best fit for you at every stage of your career:  

• Fully paid Pension plan and 401k with Generous Match  

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans (Medical, Dental and Vision including Flexible Spending Accounts and HSA)  

• Subsidized Public Transportation Program  

• Tuition Assistance Program   

• Onsite Fitness & Wellness Center  

• And more  

The New York Fed expects its employees to perform their duties with honesty, integrity, and impartiality, and without improper preferential treatment of any person. Learn more about our code of conduct and conflicts of interest rules.  

  

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is committed to a diverse workforce and to providing equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, or military service.  

  

We value accessibility for all candidates and are happy to provide an accommodation or assistance. Please email us at ny.leaves@ny.frb.org and we’ll be glad to help. Please note, this is a dedicated e-mail box designed exclusively to assist applications with accommodation requests in relation to our recruiting process. All other inquires including the status of applications will not receive a response from this e-mail box.   

  

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change.  

 

This position requires access to confidential supervisory information (CSI) and/or Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) information. Access to CSI and FOMC information is limited to U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, individuals who meet the definition of “protected individual” under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), and certain other nonimmigrants. All non-U.S. citizens authorized to access CSI and/or FOMC information must sign a declaration of intent to expeditiously become a lawful permanent resident and thereafter a U.S. citizen when eligible.   

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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