Software Engineer 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 developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Familiar with development and testing practices of the bank
• Assists team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.
• Identifies any test issues/errors, and triages the underlying cause.
• Documents and communicates required information for deployment, maintenance, support, and business functionality. Participates, contributes and can coach team members in the delivery/release (CI-CD) events. e.g. branching timelines, pull requests, issue triage, merge/conflict resolution, release notes.
• Metadata management and data integrity skills.
• Perform system and data analysis based on business need including integration testing and data quality validation. 
• Create test plans, scripts and artifacts for all phases of testing. Identify, document and resolve data quality/data integrity issues.
• Analyze and test mappings, workflows/sessions and other MW jobs/processes. 
• Ensures adherence to locally defined standards.

Required Qualifications:

• QA Professional with at least 8 years of experience in treasury/payment/transactions services. 
• Ability to support parallel projects, in agile development methodology in fast-paced environment.
• Proficient with mapping and requirements analysis.
• Experience with testing data to support the business requirements.   
• Strong leadership skills with prior experience in creating testing strategies for both data and software
• Has advanced experience with data technologies and led the development of data system. 
• 6+ years of experience in Functional software testing
• 2+ years of experience in any of Test Automation tools 
• Understanding and experience in data testing/validation. Advanced skills in SQL, data extraction, manipulation using excel functions
• Collaborate with Product owner, scrum master, development, system and release management teams to certify and promote code to higher level environments
• Experience in test execution, Defect management, Test progress reporting and escalation of issues and risks
• Experience in test planning one or more applications that span across multiple stakeholders
• Excellent written & verbal communication, ability to multitask, work well under demanding situations, prioritize and meet deadline
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Coordination skills and experience collaborating with offshore teams
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Automation Projects in a Developer/Lead capacity.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in reviewing requirements and project documentation to understand the application and perform automation feasibility analysis.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, developing, maintaining, and analyzing automated test scripts.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience executing automation scripts, preparing executions reports and defect logs.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience creating project deliverables including automation test plans, automation estimation, test reports and automation dashboards
• Solid computer programming experience (Java, SQL, Gherkin an asset).
• Strong experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience (3+ years) using Quality Center/Octane/qtest experience.
• Independent worker with strong troubleshooting skills. Strong communication skills (oral and written) to document/communicate issues affecting test results. Ability to assist with offshore / onshore task co-ordination.
• Experience in version control using bitbucket, SVN, perforce etc
• 2+ experience in banking domain. Exposure to treasury/payment systems.
• Familiarity with testing different file and message formats – SWIFT, CAMT, XML, BAI2, CSV , MTXXX a definite plus.
• Knowledge of API(microservice) cucumber script test creation
• Support Integration testing for point to point testing prior to E2E testing
• Identify functional test scenarios, create application test suite for testing payment flows with mocks/simulators. Execute functional tests prior to End to End testing
• Support daily/weekly regression runs and regression script maintenance
• Participate in sprint planning, in-sprint test creation and execution, test strategy and test plan creation. (participation in SQA Sync as well)
• Communicate identified testing discrepancies, create defects in JIRA/tracker , triage with appropriate teams until resolution. Escalate issues as required.
• Document access requests, usage of supporting tools, relevant artifacts documentation
• Understand: Project and product road map, Requirements and Test scope for upcoming Releases, E2E payment flows and downstream connectivity and dependencies, EBV cycle schedule, Release activities.
• Work in collaboration with product team to define requirements, acceptance criteria and scope
• Act as primary contact between QA team/PO/Dev and project team for testing.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of product functionality and accountable for quality deliverable of product
• Ownership of creating Test Plan and review with all the Business stakeholders like Product/Business/Ops/Dev
• Lead overall testing efforts to identify testcases, execute tests, create defects, report status.
• Facilitate and manage testing schedule, defect triages, status calls, status reporting, escalation.
• Responsible for automation test coverage in API , application test and regression tests
• Ensure adherence to MRA2 process and timely completion of relevant documentation
• Perform  root cause analysis of escaped defects
• Organize testing with clearing house /partner banks for certification
• Responsible for reviewing testing scenarios with systems participating in E2E testing
• Collaborate with E2E applications for test data setup, validation support, sign off
• Strong knowledge (3+ years) in Technologies/Programming such as Core Java, VB Scripting, SQL, Basic Unix, Cucumber
• 4+ years of Data/File/Database and ETL/Data warehouse testing and proficient in testing all conversions – File to file, file to Database, database to file etc.
• Strong command over SQL. Ability to write complex queries across different systems – preferred Oracle
• Shell Scripts/Regular Expressions(RegExps)/UNIX experience is a huge asset
• Strong experience (3+ years) in parsing & generating data/files, bank standards, XML and XPath
• Hands on with Eclipse or NetBeans Project Management; Test NG; Version Management, Web Services Testing, Litmus, Version control like bitbucket, Selenium, Cucumber
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting, debugging/triaging skills
• Ability to work independently, with team and with partners/executives at Enterprise level for facilitation of cross-functional practitioner/executive engagement, routines and activities
• Technical aptitude with understanding of non-technology change as well
• Ability to acquire new skills autonomously

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• User Experience Design
• Analytical Thinking
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering

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