QA Automation Engineer

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. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for testing and delivering complex software requirements to accomplish business outcomes, ensuring the testing strategy and processes are well-defined and continuously improved. Key responsibilities include establishing a test and automation strategy, creating common test frameworks, defining and managing test processes including test data generation, defect management and reporting. Job expectations include understanding and implementing internal/external mandate, ensuring compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments, and manages traceability. Focus will be outlining tools and solutions to address the rebase regressions coming from multiple upstream dependent trains across the value stream.

LOB Specific Description:

The Strategic Full Reval Capability (SFRC) technology team is responsible for developing risk solutions to meet enterprise-wide regulatory requirements. The primary focus of the team is on building scalable risk generation for use cases across Global Markets. End users include trading desks, senior trading management, market risk management, Global Risk Analytics and Finance groups. SFRC technology is a global team of highly skilled and motivated developers using agile methods to iterate quickly and work closely with users to deliver superior trading risk technology.

Responsibilities:

• Creates and optimizes test processes including defect management and reporting
• Creates and optimizes test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools
• Leads test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams
• Creates a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.)
• Ensures alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders
• Manages test execution and resolves, communicates or escalates any issues that may result in test plan variance
• Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of applicable experience
• Framework and tool automation using python programming language
• Track record of managing QA practice for large scale python based systems
• Strong project management skills to functionally lead a global QA team
• Exposure to defining and implementing reporting of KPIs and KRIs in QA space for entire platform.

Desired Qualifications:

• Exposure to Risk platforms within Global Markets

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Influence
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering
• Automation
• Collaboration
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Agile Practices
• Application Development
• Architecture
• DevOps Practices
• User Experience Design

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field OR equivalent professional experience.

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