Senior Test Automation Developer- SDET at Charles Schwab

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’re seeking an experienced Sr. Test Automation Developer- SDET who is passionate about test automation and building quality world-class systems. This individual will work closely with Developers to understand the architecture of the application and how to build reliable and maintainable automated tests. 

This is an opportunity to collaborate with others, create a high quality culture across Scrum teams and demonstrate a passion for building solutions through automation, driven by innovation and commitment to lifelong learning. If you’re passionate about staying on top of new and emerging test and automation technologies, have a keen attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and a solid knowledge base, this could be the role for you!  

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as a hands-on Test Automation engineer with a DevOps philosophy in Agile environment.
• Understand and implement automation strategies and processes for web services, APIs, middleware, and UI.
• 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 CI/CD automation.
• Coordinate with Product Owner, Scrum Master, Business Systems Analyst (BSA) and Developers to implement test automation and CI/CD practices.
• Maintain automation code using source control, test management and release systems.
• Maintain test case repositories and results at sprint and release level using JIRA.
• Maintain test automation code and scripts using BitBucket.
• Design and implement continuous testing pipeline using Bamboo for regression and smoke testing.
• Enable Scrum team to use BDD methodology using Gherkin/Ruby/Cucumber.
• Work in Agile and DevOps environment to deliver robust quality sprint over sprint, release over release.

*This is a hybrid position

What you have

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of “challenging the status quo,” this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of work experience in Test Automation using Agile methodologies
• 5+ years of experience with Bitbucket, Jira, Zephyr, Bamboo, GIT Hub
• 5+ years of experience with a test automation framework such as Selenium or SOATest (or comparable framework) and associated reporting tools
• 5+ years of programming experience in Object Oriented languages (Java or C#)
• 5+ years of experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, PCF etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert in designing scalable and maintainable test automation
• Ability to work both independently and with all types of stakeholders, both technical and business, peers, and management
• Experience with Atlassian Tools
• Exposure to different test data management techniques and tools
• Experience with cloud based testing infrastructure tools such as Saucelabs
• Experience with document databases such as MongoDB
• Understanding of IAS (infrastructure as service) in context of application testing
• Passion for delivering quality
• Ability to juggle competing priorities
• Ability to think outside the box and come up with creative solutions when tools don’t work
• Financial industry and/or brokerage knowledge

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