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

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience leading technical projects with people process impacts through full change management lifecycle
• Self-starter, able to work in situations not well defined and develop project team routines and structure
• Proven success working in matrixed environments including multiple business, operations, technology and compliance partners
• Highly effective communication and collaboration in meetings and informal channels, including tailoring messages based on team or executive audience.  This includes clear and concise written communications.
• Strong cross-team coordination, influence and negotiation skills
• Experience with Agile software delivery methodologies and use of Jira; Waterfall knowledge also beneficial
• Strong command of MS Office and Webex meeting facilitation

PLANNING:

• Create consolidated test plan(s) for releases to include 360-view of all testing related activities, tasks and deliverables.
• Identify test teams including test leads for each test cycle/phase
• Consolidate all information from test teams for a consolidated view of testing for the initiative
• Review consolidate test plan as required with appropriate parties
• Coordinate cross-application test scenario planning
• Resolve discrepancies and issues related to cross application testing efforts
• Facilitate communications between test teams
• Schedule/coordinate test environments
• Coordinate test preparation activities including  test case/script development, identification of interdependencies, test scheduling, test condition definitions upstream/downstream, etc. Experience managing projects, coaching cross-functional team or leading iterative development teams.

EXECUTION:

• Test Execution
• Manage testing throughout all test cycles/phases (i.e., unit, CIT, SIT, Performance, UAT, Dress Rehearsal and Production Certification) to ensure completion of all test deliverables
• Provide consolidated test execution status for the initiative
• Act as central communication point for testing
• Escalate risks/ issues identified during testing to appropriate parties
• Communicate test condition changes to application test leads (e.g., changes to timeframes, environment changes/issues, etc. )
• Create consolidated defect reporting
• Lead cross team defect management meeting if required
• Monitor each test team’