Senior Specialist - QA Automation

Your opportunity

Schwab Description:

​At Charles Schwab, our purpose is simple: we champion client’s goals with passion and integrity. Guided by honesty, mutual respect and a commitment to doing what’s right, we bring innovation, education, and service together to help shape financial futures. Our people are the foundation of our success – they approach their work with curiosity and collaboration, coming together to create solutions that make a meaningful impact for clients and communities. As we expand into India, we are bringing this same culture of inclusion, learning, and opportunity to new talent. Joining us means becoming part of a global team where your work matters and your future can take shape.

​Schwab India:

Our Hyderabad location is central to Schwab’s growth, bringing together talented people and technology to drive innovation, scale and efficiency. Here, you will work alongside teams who create solutions that support millions of clients every day. The work you do is more than daily operations – it’s a chance to experiment, learn, and build within a values-driven, supportive environment. This is a unique opportunity to be part of our early growth phase and shape something new, backed by the stability and strength of a Fortune 500 company. Your impact begins on day one, and your contributions will help define our future in the region

What you have

Role Description:

​​The individual in this role will design, develop, and support software applications and business process solutions for the Schwab Asset Management (SAM) Operations team. Responsibilities include building and maintaining business-critical solutions, developing web service APIs, user interfaces, and automated workflows that support the SAM front office functionalities. This individual will collaborate closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions while actively participating in an Agile Scrum environment. The role requires a hands-on, team-oriented mindset with a willingness to contribute wherever needed to ensure successful delivery of business and technology objectives.​

Key Responsibilities:

This is a Senior Specialist - Quality Assurance role, with responsibilities including hands-on experience in automation test framework development and automation test case development and maintenance, end to end test lifecycle management including hands on test execution.   Participate as an active member of an Agile Scrum team, leveraging tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub, and Copilot to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Required Qualifications:

​​▪ A university degree from a well-respected academic institution, and/or other professional certifications are a plus.
▪ Knowledge of Asset Management Front Office including Portfolio Management, Trading, Order Management System, Optimization. 
▪ At least 5 years’ experience developing automation test suites for enterprise class applications using .NET and C#, particularly distributed and Cloud applications.
▪ 5+ years of hands-on expert level test engineering skills for Services API Automation using C#.NET, RestSharp. 
▪ 3 + years of User interface automation experience using Playwright is a MUST.
▪ At least 5 years of experience working in Agile Scrum.
▪ Proven record of delivering technology solutions within agreed timeframes.
▪ Experience or knowledge of database design and development (SQL)
▪ Quality assurance experience in Informatica, Secure File Transfer Protocol, Control M or equivalent.  
▪ Participate and contribute to requirements gathering and designs sessions to design the test plan and the test cases.  
▪ Integration testing experience for internal and external APIs, webservices 
▪ Strong knowledge of SQL database and related integrations.  
▪ PCF or AWS or GCP cloud experience, PCF highly preferred. 
▪ Knowledge of software design patterns and ability to apply them to the right use case scenarios. 
- An agile champion with good understanding of CI/CD. Experience with GitHub or Atlassian suite of products & Jira is preferred. 

▪ 2+ years of experience in Fixed Income portfolio management and trading processing including optionally Separately managed business workflows.
▪ Product Experience of Investortools Perform, Aladdin and other well-known Order Management systems.
▪ Experience with TDD & BDD is a plus.
▪ Strong ability to design, code, and debug applications in various software languages.
▪ A commitment to high ethical standards and integrity, demonstrated through action.
▪ Effective communication skills, with exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
▪ High-energy, positive, entrepreneurial in spirit.
▪ Purposeful and results driven.
▪ Well-organized and disciplined with high mindfulness.
▪ Direct, plain-spoken; conveys a genuine and authentic demeanor.
▪ Considerable experience transforming teams through technology, organization, culture, process, and business change management.
▪ Ability to work effectively within the Agile Scrum framework to inspire and motivate all levels of staff towards both tactical and strategic delivery goals.
▪ Outstanding performer, persistent and pro-active leader, detailed oriented, and driven to exceed