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Charles Schwab has been a leader in financial services for nearly four decades, working to make investing more affordable, accessible, and understandable to all. Driven by our purpose to champion every client's goal with passion and integrity, we're committed to providing an environment that respects and appreciates the diversity of our employees, our clients, and the communities we serve. Our goal, as seen through clients' eyes, is that Schwab continuously improves on being a premier financial service provider through best-in-class service, technology, products, people and advice.The Advisor Services Technology team is responsible for managing the entirety of our digital products designed specifically for to our Institutional and Independent Advisor clients. We are looking for a Senior SDET Engineer to work in our dynamic and collegiate teamWhat you are good atThe first assignment will be on a SAC project which provides Advisors the ability to trade and allocate for their end clients. It has all the generic trading functionalities that the present market offers to its customers such as Equity, Options, Fixed Income and Mutual Fund trading, Allocations etc.- Be a hands-on advocate and leader for test automation, drive continuous integration and deployment strategies with a DevOps philosophy
- Set and communicate automation strategies and processes for web services, APIs, middleware, UI etc., evaluate and implement software test automation tools and tooling standards
- Build automation frameworks to increase reuse and reduce effort
- Increase automation cycle execution run times and decrease manual analysis of results
- Keep automation current, flexible, and designed to work within a continuous integration / deployment framework
- Develop methods and procedures to create automation test data and data refresh capabilities
- Assist developers with robust unit/component/ commit/ build and deploy/CI/CD test automation as needed; understanding or practice of TDD, ATDD, and BDD a significant plus.
- Recommend meaningful and automated dynamic reports and metrics that measure the success of automation efficiency and quality, and provide action items for continuous improvements
- Interact with various levels of individual contributors and management to educate and influence
- Collaborate with automation experts to plan, design, mange, report and prioritize software test automation solutions along with Dev and QA engineers across SAC and AST
- Maintain tools used in automation development, including source control, test management, and release systems
- Influence, develop and execute QA process and testing best practices, working cross-organizationally both within Schwab and with external vendors, both on- and off-shore to define environment requirements and identify test tools
- Work with assigned product teams, product owners and scrum masters to compose and manage integrated project plans, testing schedules, metrics and provide project and release status updates to all levels of management
- 8+ years of hands-on application programming and/or test automation/framework experience in an Agile development environment
- Team player with excellent communication skills (oral and written) to partner technically with, influence and collaborate with application architects, development, testing organizations, and business teams
- Experience developing or influencing the development of automated framework(s) for enterprise level functional and regression testing is preferable
- Working knowledge of agile methodologies and ceremonies, iterative development processes and collaboration Tools (JIRA, Confluence, Hip Chat) is essential
- Motivation and passion for building solutions through automation, driven by innovation and commitment to lifelong learning and staying on top of new and emerging test and automation technologies
- Strong programming, debugging/troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Experience and skills to work with resources in different geographic locations, including offshore
- Experience with testing web services, APIs, and backend infrastructure such as messaging systems, using tools such as Parasoft SOATest, MABL, SOAPUI and Advanced Rest Client.
- Experience in UI automation using Java and Selenium
- Experience with QTP and codedUI helpful; those tools used for SAC legacy automated scripts
- Windows and .net a very strong plus
- Object Oriented methodology familiarity
- Database testing using relational databases such as Oracle; tools such as TOAD and SQL Server; white box testing using PL-SQL; MongoDB helpful
- Experience with CI /CD tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Zephyr, Bit Bucket, Shell Scripting/PowerShell, Splunk
- Hands-on experience with server and configuration management
- Ability to think outside the box and come up with creative solutions when tools don't work
- Financial industry and/or brokerage knowledge
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