CompanyFederal 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 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, including tests strategy, execution, automation, and quality metrics.
Your role as Quality/Test Automation Engineer:
Responsible for executing Quality Engineering practices and test automation within a product squad, ensuring Agile quality practices for product development through vision and implementation.
Identify and implement 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 developing automation to integrate with build pipelines, and other automated unit, integration, and system tests.
- Promote innovation and evolution of quality engineering techniques, test automation technologies and ensure pervasive quality in product development.
- 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.
- 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
What we are looking for:
- Demonstrated 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 strong 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).
- Experience with RDBMS and SQL.
- Experience with 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 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)
- Solid comprehension, training, and experience in leveraging dynamic test environments, cloud technologies, test data management strategies and test infrastructure design.
Salary Range: $116000 - $165000 / 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:
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Fully paid Pension plan and 401k with Generous Match
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Comprehensive Insurance Plans (Medical, Dental and Vision including Flexible Spending Accounts and HSA)
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Subsidized Public Transportation Program
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Tuition Assistance Program
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Onsite Fitness & Wellness Center
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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 [email protected] 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 TimeFull time
Regular / TemporaryRegular
Job Exempt (Yes / No)Yes
Job CategoryInformation Technology
Work ShiftFirst (United States of America)
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The Fed - Make a world of difference in the global economy
OUR BANK has one of the most recognizable brands around the world. The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States—one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations. The Federal Reserve is charged with the important mission of promoting a strong economy and a stable financial system and fulfills this responsibility by formulating national monetary policy, supervising and regulating banks and bank holding companies, and providing financial services for banks and the U.S. government.
OUR PEOPLE are diverse in background and ideas, which allows for ongoing creativity and innovation. Ultimately, they are the ones who push our high-performance, exchange-driven culture forward.
Why Our People Choose Us:
Our reputation precedes us
There will always be room for personal growth
Our people are first
You’ll find the right balance
Your responsibilities will be meaningful
We hope that you will be our future colleague.
Find your preferred locations around the United States and explore the breadth of opportunity available at the Federal Reserve.
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