Quality/Test Automation 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 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 ...