Intern - FedNow Software Quality Engineer

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, FedNow®, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services.

We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization.

Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) platform with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow Service.

This service enables financial institutions to provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds.

This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.

This internship will be primarily on-site at our Boston office.

As an SQE intern, you have the coding skills of a developer and a passion for driving quality into the product at all phases of the product delivery lifecycle.

As member of the FedNow program, you will have the chance and support to develop truly innovative test automation solutions.

You will have an opportunity to help shape the future of test automation by contributing to the creation of frameworks while working in a cutting-edge continuous integration and delivery model.

Working closely with the software developers, you will contribute to automated testing solutions by participating in many facets of automation, including integration testing, back-end testing, data validations, API and so much more.

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Partner with a mentor to understand the current code base, setup your environments, and get ready to participate

· Collaborating with product owners, subject matter experts and develop testing strategies and approaches to support multiple distributed agile teams

· Write effective code to add or modify testing frameworks and write automated test cases using the latest technologies

· Reproduce defects in your local environment, integration environments, and write code to fix the bugs

· Participating in activities focused around the agile software development cycle

· Designing, developing and supporting test automation, participating in test planning and bug triages

· Contributing and collaborating on test frameworks, environments, tool selection and infrastructure

· Identifying data requirements and generating and maintaining test data

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

· Curious about software quality engineering in a large-scale environment

· Famili...