Senior Software Quality Engineer

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 a Senior Software Quality Engineer:

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:

• Demonstrated ability to 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.
• 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.
• 5+ years of experience in Agile cross-functional teams and iterative development methodologies, with extensive experience delivering solutions across different technical environments.
• 5+ years of experience in building Java-based test automation and working with automated frameworks and tools (Selenium and REST Assured automation experience is a plus).
• 4+ years of RDBMS and SQL experience.
• 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 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.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain relationships, balance multiple stakeholder interests, and build coalitions.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills; highly collaborative working style, strong interpersonal capabilities and relationship building; proven ability to manage diverse client and stakeholder relationsh