Automation Specialist

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description:
The Test Tools & Automation Specialist II conducts a variety of tasks in support of the Enterprise Independent Testing teams platform management and operation.

Key responsibilities:
Include business analyst work, documentation, project management, support, and operational work.

This role applies technical and business knowledge to identify, research, analyze and resolve complex problems. May sometimes participate in design, development and implementation of enhancements to our technologies and/or processes. Works under supervision on special projects requiring creative solutions.

In this role, you will participate in multiple special projects, and occasionally lead special projects. A specialist II will begin to develop leadership skills by developing junior staff through coaching and guidance with light hands-on supervision from management to complete deliverables.

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• DevOps Practices
• Production Support
• Technical Strategy Development
• Agile Practices
• Data Mining
• Data Visualization
• Issue Management
• Solution Delivery Process
• Quality Assurance

Job Description:
Global Risk Analytics (GRA) and Enterprise Independent Testing (EIT) are sub-lines of business within Global Risk Management (GRM). Collectively, they are responsible for developing a consistent and coherent set of models, analytical tools, and tests for effective risk and capital measurement, management and reporting across Bank of America. GRA and EIT partner with the Lines of Business and Enterprise functions to ensure the capabilities it builds address both internal and regulatory requirements, and are responsive to the changing nature of portfolios, economic conditions, and emerging risks. In executing its activities, GRA and EIT drive innovation, process improvement and automation.
The Test Automation team is responsible for developing Regulatory Risk and Compliance testing Automation and this specialist will be required to understand test requirements and data flows and implement corresponding tests in Python. As part of the implementation, the focus will be on the development of modular, re-usable testing algorithms and leveraging machine learning techniques to enable data driven test population identification.
 

Role Overview:
As an Automation Specialist, main responsibilities will involve:

• Developing testing automation that provide timely, useful, and actionable independent insight on the operational health of Bank of America’s processes. 
• Work closely with process owners in the Front-Line Units and Control Functions (FLUs/CFs) to obtain an understanding of their processes, including underlying data, flows, and controls, and to identify risks to successful execution, so that appropriate testing and monitoring can be developed.
• The processes to be assessed span across multiple Products, Regulations and Enterprise Processes. The outputs of the methodologies will be used to drive process improvements and timely detection and reporting of errors.
• The role requires being able to document and verbally explain the intuition and details behind the methodologies in a manner that is clear, concise, and consumable for a broad set of audiences that include key stakeholders across the Bank, as well as auditors and regulators.
• The Test Tools and Automation specialist will then convert the test requirements into automated tests via Python and SQL. They will also be leveraging machine learning techniques to enable data driven testing approaches.
• Enabling automatic test document generation from code
• Leverage SDLC/Agile development, understand Coding standards and best practices.

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degrees or above in fields including but not limited to: Data Science, Business Analytics, Business Management, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering or related subjects
• 2+ years of relevant work experience

Required Skills:

• Intellectual Curiosity
• Applies critical thinking and connects the dots on how processes relate to one another.
• Demonstrates understanding of and passion for the “why”.
• Looks around the corner, explores uncharted territories with an “outside-in” perspective.
• Life-long learner who not only assertively educates self, but encourages others to learn and grow.
• Feels ownership and accountability for delivering high quality work, able to prioritize effectively, adapt, and meet strict deadlines.
• Ability to recommend and implement process control improvements.
• Executive Interaction & Communication
• Strong written, verbal, presentation creation and delivery skills.
• Communications are timely, concise, easy to follow and tailored to topic, audience, and competing priorities.
• Exercises excellent judgment, discerning appropriate moments to challenge or insert point of view.
• Presentations tell a compelling story and influence action.
• Asks the next level of questions, applies context to determine direction.

Technical Skills:

• Prior Knowledge of Python and SQL
• Working knowledge of relational database and familiarity with data analysis/ mining tools, prior exposure to working with large dataset beneficial
• Technical Experience in object-oriented or functional software development

Desired Skills:

• Experience using large data tooling including Hadoop and S3 as well as Spark and Trino
• Experience building unit and integration tests with Pytest

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