Your Opportunity

Quality Engineer Staff 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 a self-motivated individual with strong problem solving skills who can contribute in a highly collaborative culture and Agile team environment. The ability to deliver innovative, low cost, reliable solutions is key to success in this role. Our Quality Engineer Senior Staff are responsible for test estimates, test strategies, test plans and scripts, functional and regression testing for numerous applications.

What you are good at

• Perform user story and overall system verification in an Agile development environment.
• Perform exploratory testing.
• Defines and implements effective risk mitigation strategies for all testing-related risks.
• Develops and reviews QA test plans to ensure major milestones, dependencies and critical paths are defined, as well as applying risk-based testing principles where appropriate.
• Implement test practices, standards and processes, troubleshoot test issues, record test results, track and prioritize defects, participate in product readiness and release decisions.
• Make sure the automation is constantly running and being analyzed, reporting on failure promptly.
• 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 cross-organizationally both within Schwab and with external vendors, both on and offshore to define environment requirements, identify QA-related tools, develop and execute QA process and testing best practices.
• Ongoing, continuous improvement in testing efficiency and effectiveness through the use of innovative QA practices and tools, and close collaboration with the development and business organizations.
• Acts as the escalation point for all testing related issues.
• Implements and manages appropriate measurements and metrics for the project or release.
• Directs reviews and acceptance of project work products related to the technology deliverables (including ambiguity reviews).
• Obtains agreement on cross domain defect tracking and resolution
• Participates in Design Reviews, Requirements Ambiguity & Use Case Reviews, directs the test automation activities of the team, and complete 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 on testing activities.
• Consults with business partners when needed for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) advice and counsel.

What you have

• 7+ years' experience in Software Quality Assurance, focused on automation.
• 5+ years' hands on experience in development, execution and maintenance of automated tests; preferably those developed using test-first techniques.
• Object oriented programming language programming experience Highly desired such as Java or C#
• 2+ years' experience developing in an Agile environment; preferably Scrum.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Thorough understanding of testing practices (black box testing, risk based testing, system testing, regression testing, exploratory testing, performance testing, etc.).
• Strong experience with modern tools for logging bugs and managing test cases (ex. JIRA, Zephyr, etc.).
• Understanding of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD).
• Understands and applies good software engineering practices necessary to keep the cost of change of tests low
• Proven ability of working and leading multiple projects and releases, balancing time and effort for successful delivery.
• Proven experience driving innovative testing solutions within a complex, enterprise platform.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must be a critical thinker and solutions-oriented.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Detailed oriented self-starter, can grasp difficult concepts and large architectures quickly; must be able to quickly grasp complex concepts and learn new technologies.
• Ability to work independently and to effectively interact and collaborate with all types of stakeholders, both technical and business, peers and leaders.
• Personality that engages peers and promotes collaborative teamwork.
• Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment.
• Experience working with distributed teams.
• Experience with Unix, Oracle DB, Selenium, Parasoft SOA

Desired

• Experience with Atlassian Tool set
• GoldenSource experience is a plus
• Certified Scrum Developer
• Lean Agile development concepts
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment
• Experience working in a financial services organization