Specialist - Security Development & Engineering

Your opportunity

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.​

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​

The SCS QA (Quality Assurance) team within Identity and Access Management (IAM) has an opening for a QA Engineer, focusing on cybersecurity functional testing. This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills who can contribute in a highly collaborative culture and Agile team environment. The QA Staff Engineer is responsible for test estimates, test strategies, test automation and scripts, functional and regression testing for large, complex cybersecurity platforms including IIQ, PAM, SSO, Network Security, Endpoint Security and DLP.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform functional testing of platforms and applications
• Ability to conduct reviews of test results in multiple environments.
• Proficient in utilization of Automation engineering tools and scripting.
• Develop and maintain QA test plans to ensure major milestones, dependencies and critical paths are executed, as well as applying risk-based testing principles where appropriate.
• Troubleshoot test issues, record test results, track and prioritize defects, participate in product readiness and release cycle.
• Run and create necessary automation scripts and report test results.
• Be effective in participating at program, project and product related levels.
• Participate in technical governance and help negotiate overall product quality standards with development and business teams.
• Work with internal and external partners to define environmental requirements, identify QA-related tools, develop and execute QA process and testing best practices.
• Participates in Design Reviews, Requirements Ambiguity & Use Case Reviews, directs the test automation activities of the team, and completes Root Cause Analysis for any defect slippages.
• Provides overall QA status reporting and escalate issues/risks in a timely manner to Management and assist in resolution.
• Coordinates with impacted QA Domain leads to testing activities.
• Consults with business partners when needed for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) advice and counsel.

What you have

Required Qualifications:       

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related degree
• 5+ years of hands-on QA engineering and testing experience with progressive responsibilities/scope including but not limited to designing and executing API, UI, Scheduled Jobs, and DB test scenarios/cases.
• 2-4 years of QA experience with cyber related applications such as Identity Governance, Authorization, Authentication, or Data Loss Prevention.
• 3-5 years of experience with automated testing frameworks supporting functional and non-functional testing
• 3-5 years of experience with front-end automation tools, such as Selenium, WebDriver, or something similar
• 3-5 years of experience with Agile methodologies and collaboration tools.
• 2-4 years of experience with JIRA to support test case execution or other case management tools.
• Experience with SQL, Java, C# and Oracle.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, both oral and written is required.
• Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills.
• Self-starter: takes initiative and can work independently.
• Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail. Flexible and adaptable working with various business domains.

Preferred Qualifications:

CISSP or other related certifications are preferred.