Software Development Engineer in Test

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is one of the 12 regional Reserve Banks that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System.

It helps formulate and implement monetary policy, supervises banks and bank and savings and loan holding companies, and provides financial services to depository institutions and the federal government.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia serves eastern and central Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia works two days per week onsite.

Starting on September 2nd, 2025, all Bank employees will work full-time on site.

By applying to this position, you agree you will be available to work on-site in a full-time capacity starting on September 2nd, 2025.

You will follow the Automation, Performance, and Development Testing Track.

You are a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with experience working on complex financial systems.

You will have extensive experience performing exploratory testing, writing automated tests, and building robust test frameworks.

Experience reviewing code to find and address potential issues and defects.

A deep understanding of test planning.

Strong hands-on experience with Playwright and TypeScript is strongly preferred.

You are proficient in GitLab, comfortable with CI/CD pipelines, and experienced working in Agile environments with JIRA and XRay.

Familiarity with Cucumber and SQL is nice to have.

What You Will Do:


* Develop functional and system level test automation in a multi-tiered environment using modern frameworks such as Selenium, UFT, Loadrunner/Performance Center, Jmeter and other industry tools approved for use at FRS as applicable.


* Use programming languages like C#, Python or Java with a modern IDE (Visual Studio, IntelliJ, or similar), and source code management products like TFS/Azure DevOps, GIT and Subversion.


* Develop solutions and methodologies to automate testing of applications built using technologies and frameworks such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript (Angular), KendoUI, Bootstrap, Postman, SoapUI and other industry tools approved for use at FRS as applicable.


* Scale test efforts and build reusable components over multiple engagements.


* Produce and share test execution reports.


* Incorporate the tests aligned with the application under test database schemas using complex stored procedures and queries in environments such as SQLServer, Oracle, or similar.


* Mentor QA Engineers by providing direction and guidance when needed.


* Participate on project teams as a senior QA Engineer.


* Participate on Bank, department, or system projects of moderate to high complexity.

Demonstrate Core Competency skills for grade and position.


* Involved in the accomplishment of departmental and Bank wide quality projects.


* Comply with all applicable information...