.NET SDET, Software Development Engineer in Test

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.

AIM Technology, a part of the Core Technology Solutions (CTS)organization, provides a broad range of technology services to our business Partners in support of Alternative Investments, Insurance & Annuities, and Managed Accounts.  It supports both internal and external facing web portals (B2B), using Microsoft technologies to develop products and solutions. 

The Alternatives, Annuities and Insurance team in WAM Engineering Technology is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who can define and implement emerging and best practices in test automation, continuous testing, and test frameworks.  The technology stack includes C#, ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core, Angular, MS SQL/Oracle/Mongo, TypeScript, JavaScript, JQuery, WCF, and leverages Web API development with a strong focus on Object-Oriented application design and patterns and use of Shared Platforms/ Cloud Technology.

This role is a staff position requiring a self-starting candidate with good test automation, distributed environment technical skills, excellent teamwork and collaboration skills, and the abilities to learn quickly and partner well with multiple teams (on/offshore, technology and business).

What you’ll do:

Do you have a passion for working with the latest test automation software, testing frameworks, and love problem solving? We are looking for an SDET to support our full stack developers and to be a part of our platform modernization team. You will collaborate with team members in developing and testing technical solutions that meet stakeholder needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability. You should have high enthusiasm to learn and contribute actively in an agile development group.

Your primary responsibility will be providing test automation and testing frameworks for the various platforms in AIM Technology.

• Identify automation test strategies and tools required to drive efficiencies for CTS products
• Develop and implement Test Automation Frameworks for business critical products
• Assist other automation engineers in maintaining the frameworks
• Participate in all aspects of automation testing including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
• Develop testing scenarios/cases to address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, boundary/negative testing, usability
• Influence, develop and execute QA process and testing best practices
• Drive continuous integration and deployment strategies leveraging tools like Jenkins/Bamboo with a DevOps philosophy

What you have

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from 4-year accredited degree granting college or university is preferred, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience in building and maintaining test automation frameworks in a .NET environment utilizing Xunit, Nunit, Moq, Parasoft, Cucumber, etc. or working knowledge of related frameworks (Ruby testing/Groovy)
• Experience with Selenium for web-based automation testing
• Strong knowledge of Test Automation Frameworks
• Strong programming background
• Proficiency with testing web services using REST/SOAP tools (Postman, SOAPUi, Parasoft), performance testing, experience in cloud computing a plus
• Experience with JavaScript unit testing frameworks (Jasmine, Mocha) and orchestration tools is a plus (Selenium web driver)
• Strong technical skills, with a practical knowledge of OOP and distributed environments: .NET, XML, web services (SOAP and REST)
• Experience with relational database management systems, i.e. Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, MongoDB
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• A curiosity to understand and leverage new tools and technologies
• Experience working with teams in different geographical locations and offshore vendors
• Understanding of BDD and TDD styles
• Experience with financial services is a plus
• Have a passion for problem solving, the ability to quickly learn new concepts, and must be able to interact with all levels of technical and business teams
• Experience in an Agile work environment
• Self-motivated analytical thinker
• Effective time management. Must be able to prioritize and multi-task effectively

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