The Quality Engineer Lead - ALM utilizes web and cloud technologies, APIs, and third party software development frameworks to build and support application solutions. Provides lead support for design and development to one or more application development teams, and leads a team of local or outsourced software engineers to build and support business application solutions.

Responsibilities 

  • Work collaboratively with other development team staff, including contract and offshore Engineers, business teams, and other stakeholders. 
  • In partnership with QE CoE, develop and implement QE best practices and frameworks for testing and automation. 
  • Code, test, identify, implement, and document solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies. 
  • Perform design and analysis for deliverables. Lead large team design sessions for system level architecture solutions. 
  • Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies; mentor other team members in design/coding standards.   
  • Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts. 
  • Lead analysis and general architectural design across platforms toward the development of end-to-end solutions. 
  • Participate on committees or projects to help define organization-wide standards, processes, and guidelines. 
  • Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and APIs to rapidly develop basic application solutions.  
  • Lead additional QE staff, including contract and off-shore developers; may have supervisory responsibility over employees. 
  • Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables. 
  • Prepare presentations and lead development meetings. 

Qualifications 

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent education/experience 
  • Five years of experience in IT Quality Assurance/Engineering 
  • Expertise in QE best practices and tools such as Jira, Quality Center, etc. 
  • Three years of experience and expertise in Automation platforms/frameworks around batch processes, ETL, API testing, etc. 
  • Understanding of NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MS Cosmos DB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB) 
  • One year of development experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS/Azure) utilizing various support tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs) 
  • Experience with build and deployment tools - (Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SQL Management Studio, Nunit, Ajax) 
  • Three years of experience with integration and service framework testing (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices) 
  • Experience with Microservices and REST based API testing (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework,  IIS, Swagger, Odata, .NET API 2, .NET API Core, AutoMapper) 
  • Experience leveraging continuous integration/development tools (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Containers, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container automation) in a Ci/CD pipeline 
  • Advanced understanding of software development and research tools 
  • Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus 
  • Ability to work as part of a team and independently 
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills 
  • Technical communication skills 
  • Problem-solving and technical communication skills 
  • Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Understanding of advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations 
  • Understanding of big data and real time streaming analytics processing architecture 
  • Understanding of data warehousing architecture and implementation, including source to target mappings and ETL. 
  • Technology or platform certifications (e.g. AWS, Microsoft) 
  • Knowledge of the financial services industry 

**Please note that the compensation information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to applicable pay transparency and compensation posting laws. It is estimated based on what a successful candidate might be paid in certain Company locations.**

Compensation:

The US salary for this position generally ranges between $100,000 - $135,000 annually. This range is an estimate, based on potential employee qualifications and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally in the US, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

Our commitment to inclusion & diversity means that we value differences. We encourage the unique perspectives of persons and are dedicated to creating a respectful and inclusive work environment.

 

This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.