Quality Engineer - Prime Services and Equity Derivatives Tech

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 testing and delivering complex software requirements to accomplish business outcomes, ensuring the testing strategy and processes are well-defined and continuously improved. Key responsibilities include establishing a test and automation strategy, creating common test frameworks, defining and managing test processes including test data generation, defect management and reporting. Job expectations include understanding and implementing internal/external mandate, ensuring compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments, and manages traceability.

Responsibilities:

• Creates and optimizes test processes including defect management and reporting
• Creates and optimizes test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools
• Leads test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams
• Creates a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.)
• Ensures alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders
• Manages test execution and resolves, communicates or escalates any issues that may result in test plan variance
• Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments

Required Qualifications:

Senior experienced QA professional with more than 10 years' experience with the following:

• Understanding of full life cycle of SDLC and Testing process
• Creates and optimizes test processes including defect management and reporting.
• Contributes to building quality into the SDLC using best practices and tools.
• Creates a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.).
• Creates and optimizes test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools.
• Leads test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams.
• Ensures alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders.
• Optimizes test suites employing techniques such risk-based testing.
• Manages test execution and assists with resolving, communicating or escalating any issues that may result in test plan variance.
• Contributes to test data management approach and processes.

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge of the trade lifecycle (Trading, Middle Office, Settlements)
• Knowledge of stock loan / equity swaps a plus
• Excellent Written and Communication Skills and ability to articulate issues and status to management.
• Able to work with team members, managers and leads to the highest level of quality.
• Ability to manage conflicts across teams
• Experience with Agile Methodology

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Influence
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering
• Automation
• Collaboration
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Agile Practices
• Application Development
• Architecture
• DevOps Practices
• User Experience Design

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40