Software Development & Engineering

Your opportunity

Workplace Services Engineering (WSE) is an organization within Schwab Technology Services that is embarking on a major transformation. We support Workplace Services, and we’re shaping the future of how people experience financial wellbeing at work. We partner with leading employers to deliver innovative retirement, equity, and workplace financial solutions that help millions of participants build stronger financial futures. This is a fast growing, high impact business where scale meets purpose—where your work directly influences how people plan, save, invest, and succeed.  

As a key growth engine for the firm, we’re investing more than ever to expand our capabilities, modernize platforms, and elevate the experiences we deliver to employers and their employees. Our teams work at the intersection of technology, service, and financial expertise—supporting workplace clients with solutions that scale, adapt, and deliver meaningful outcomes. Here, your ideas help shape what’s next for workplace financial services. If you’re energized by solving complex problems, collaborating across disciplines, and making a real difference in the workplace services industry, you’ll find your place here. 

In this role, you will: 

• Help build and protect a critical part of Schwab’s growth in the Workplace Services market through strong quality engineering practices

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable UI and API test automation frameworks using tools such as Selenium, Java, REST Assured, and related technologies supporting critical workplace applications – like Equity Administration, PCRA and Retirement Plan Services for millions of participants. 

• Partner closely with developers and architects to understand system design and ensure testability, automation coverage, and quality built in from the start

• Drive modernization initiatives by enabling faster, safer integrations through automated testing of APIs and foundational services

• Improve platform stability, performance, and resilience by proactively identifying risks, gaps, and quality concerns before they reach production

• Support modernization of legacy components, ensuring compliance, risk remediation, and industry leading quality standards are maintained

• Leverage AI assisted testing and automation techniques to improve efficiency, coverage, and defect detection

• Serve as the SDET for a scrum team, collaborating with the scrum master, product owner, and engineers to deliver high quality outcomes for every sprint.

• Communicate test status, defects, and results clearly; listen well and collaborate effectively as a strong team partner.

• Be part of a collaborative, empowered team—not an “order taker,” but a trusted technical influencer who helps shape engineering and quality decisions

Quality is foundational to trust in financial services. In this role, your work directly impacts the confidence employers and participants place in Schwab’s workplace platforms. You’ll help ensure that systems are not only feature rich, but also secure, resilient, compliant, and ready to scale—all while enabling faster innovation across the business.

The successful candidate will be an expert in designing scalable and maintainable test automation. This individual will work closely with the developers to understand the architecture of the application to best devise how to build reliable, maintainable automated tests.

The candidate must be passionate about quality and assist in creating a high-quality culture for the scrum team.

What you have

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience, including a BS/MS degree, or equivalent practical experience.

• 3+ years of hands-on test automation experience within Agile teams.

• 3+ years of progressive development experience, demonstrating strong proficiency in Java and object-oriented programming principles.

• 3+ years of expertise in building Test Automation Frameworks using tools like Selenium and REST Assured.

• 3+ years working with API testing tools such as Postman, Insomnia, or Bruno.

• Demonstrated experience with load testing tools (e.g., JMeter, BlazeMeter, or LoadRunner)

• 3+ years working with and/or documenting with relational databases and SQL, preferably with Oracle and/or MS-SQL platforms.

• 1+year of Schwab technology domain experience gained as a current or recent contractor or employee

• Practical experience with cloud technologies, including PCF, GCP, or AWS.

• Solid understanding of Clean Code principles, including DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and SOLID concepts.

• Familiarity with design patterns frequently used in test automation, such as Page Object Model, proxy, factory, and data objects.

• Proficiency with Git-based source control systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve code quality, automate testing processes, and foster innovation throughout the development lifecycle.

• Experience with parallel test executions and leveraging cloud-based infrastructure tools (e.g., SauceLabs or similar platforms).

• Proficiency with Git-based source control systems.

• Background in data modeling.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to interface effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

• Familiarity with test data management best practices.

• Additional experience with Sauce Labs, MongoDB, and a solid understanding of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) concepts as they relate to application testing is considered a plus.

• Experience with Atlassian Tools (Jira, Zephyr, Confluence)

• Understanding of Clean Code principles, including concepts like DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and/or SOLID. 

• Familiarity with Design Patterns commonly used in test automation, such as the Page Object Model, proxy, factory, and data objects. 

• Experience with Atlassian Tools (Jira, Zephyr, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket)