JAVA SDET - Enterprise Delivery Enablement

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

Schwab is recruiting to hire Software Development Engineers who thrive in a leading-edge work culture while developing products that help Schwab customers learn, explore, and make life-impacting moves on their paths to achieving their goals.  This position requires 5+ years of QA experience. We are looking for a self-motivated individual with strong critical thinking skills who can contribute to a highly collaborative culture and Agile team environment.

Our main goal at Schwab is to transform people’s lives by changing the way the world invests. The successful candidate will have a record of success and passion for leading End to End Projects, collaborating with cross Functional teams. Our engineers are driven to learn, grow, and continuously contribute to evolving the Schwab experience and technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze enterprise application data sources to configure firm wide application test data for high priority firm business commitments.
• Responsible for ensuring QA delivery, Status Reporting, Test Plans, Test Cases, Scripts, Results, Test Readiness Reviews, post-implementation Reviews. Where appropriate review and approve test plans ensuring alignment with standards and Governance
• Working knowledge of Agile, Iterative development process is essential.
• Collaborate with technology, Business, and platform teams to architect testing solutions to meet business needs.
• Partner with the Test Environment team during test execution.
• Lead test case walkthrough reviews, Co-ordination of Test Execution (End-to-End) with various Application/ Domains involved, coordination with Offshore.
• Log defects and track open defects to closure, follow up with Development, Architecture and Test Managers to report those defects.
• Lead defect Triage meetings with multiple domains and Report status/issues to Leadership.
• Ability to collaborate with Cross Functional teams within Schwab.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• Education:
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience:
  • Solid background in application development with 3–5 years of experience.
  • Minimum 5 years as a QA Engineer, including hands-on application testing and/or test automation/framework development in an Agile environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Technical Skills:
  • Programming & Tools: Core Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Appium, Perfecto/Sauce Labs.
  • Database Testing: Proficient in relational databases (Oracle, IBM Db2) and non-relational databases (MongoDB).
  • CI/CD Tools: GitHub/Bitbucket, Jenkins, Bamboo, Zephyr.
  • Collaboration Tools: JIRA, Confluence.
  • Methodologies:Strong working knowledge of Scrum, Agile and iterative development processes.
• Soft Skills:
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with Application Architects, Development, QA/Testing teams, and Business stakeholders.
  • Strong self-starter and team player.

Preferred Qualifications

• Nice to have Schwab Experience related to front end or business process.
• Knowledge of cloud concepts (cloud deployments, micro service infrastructure, cloud config, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, etc.)
• Experience in the finance industry

"In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities."