Quality Specialist II

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for testing and delivering complex software to accomplish business outcomes. The job establishes testing scope and coordinates test execution. Key responsibilities of the job include overseeing testing practices ensuring that software is tested to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, conditioning and generating test data, building and executing both manual and automated test suites, recording and communicating the test results, triage defects, and ensuring regression test suites are maintained and well designed.

Position Summary:

We are currently seeking Automation QA Specialist with 3+ years of experience to join our team. In this role, the Automation Specialist will focus on the development and execution of Python based automation test scripts. The specialist will have to work with Reporting Line of Business under Market Risk Technology which deals with Regulatory, Management, Treasury, Volcker, Full Reval, and Stressed Day VAR Reports and data elements for accuracy and adherence to policy/procedure. Automation Specialist will also identify and recommends ways to improve the quality, capability, or efficiency of the automation testing process.

Responsibilities:

• Develops detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test cases based on functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements
• Leads test planning, usually at a team level. When part of a Scrum team, ensure stories are well refined and contain clear acceptance criteria
• Leads test case reviews and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to ensure test coverage
• Identifies automation opportunities and develop test automation for applicable test types
• Executes test cases, including manual and automated tests, and record test results
• Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments
• Uses testing tools and follow processes to complete testing on a given test environment, and perform necessary steps required to promote code base to higher level environments
• Design, Develop and executing tests , identifying deviations, and implementing corrective actions
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Automates manual release activities
• Meticulously document and report defects, track their resolution, and work with development teams to ensure timely fixes. 
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)
• Design and build horizontally scalable components within the major platform that the team is developing
• Become subject matter expert on code deployed on our platform and support to other areas of testing
• Write reusable and extendable code for automating the test scenario’s
• Review and provide code feedback in terms of best practices with keen eye towards performance and stability optimizations
• Consistently work to make our automation testing  software
• Challenge yourself and your peers to always improve

Required Qualification:

• Bachelors degree in engineering, computer Science or job related filed required
• 3-4 years of working experience as a Automation Specialist/Engineer.
• Automation experinec with UFT is a plus.
• 3-4 years of Strong automation experience is a must.
• Hands on experinece with Python-Selenium based Automation Famework is mandatory.
• 2-4 years of Python development Experience is required.
• 1-3 years knowledge of CI/CD concepts.
• Hands experience working with CI/CD Continious Testing.
• Strong SQL Query writing Skills is a must have.
• Understanding of End to End Testing Cycles in Agile environment. Hands on knowledge of test management software (Ex: qTest,  JIRA, Octane) Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive

Desired Qualifications

• Excellent communication & Presentation Skills.
• Demonstrated Analytical, Problem solving and Interpersonal Skills.

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Automation
• Business Acumen
• Test Engineering
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• User Experience Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range$89,700.00 - $128,100.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.