Quality Engineer - GBS IND

Job Description:

About Us

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!

Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence, and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview:

Equity group span across various offering like prime brokerage, Equities trading. This includes physical and synthetic financing solutions for clients who desire to gain market exposure and financing to securities in the Equity, Fixed Income and FX marketplaces. BAML’s offering spans multiple areas within GBAM, each of which provide specific offerings to our clients. we implement innovative software solutions to provide our clients with a seamless trading experience. Solutions includes low touch trading, FIX connectivity, low latency market connectivity, smart order routing, algorithmic trading, and internal crossing.
 

Job Description

The individual would be responsible for setting up end to end integration test environment & process for all equity applications, He/She would be expected to have good exposure testing lifecycle, testing tool and various testing strategy. Implementing observability & monitoring, conduct program testing across applications.

The individual should be well versed with Global Markets concepts (Equities preferred) and should be a self-starter.

The individual should be self-motivated, creative, and proactive, to work successfully in a fast-paced environment including multiple platforms and applications and diverse technologies. The individual will work closely with developers, production support teams, product owners & other team members throughout the SDLC, executing test iterations, tracking / reporting results, troubleshooting and coordinating defect resolution. The individual should have a strong understanding of SDLC processes and the QA lifecycle and methodology.

It requires the ideal candidate to be passionate about and hands-on with technology, and be a systematic, logical problem-solver. It will involve active participation in the system design and architecture along with its implementation, testing and deployment. The ideal candidate would be a fast learner of the business area, someone with good programming and testing acumen, exposure to SRE and seasoned enough to work on the projects with minimal hand holding.

Responsibilities:

• Possess a high level of analytical, problem solving and creative skills.
• Interact with Business Partners and come up with solutions.
• Understand business priorities and strategize with onshore managers on future work possibilities and growth path.
• Participate and provide suggestions in global technical design discussions.
• Proficiency in various testing types, including integration testing, system testing, regression testing, and performance and security testing.
• Be hands on in developing and implement comprehensive test plans and procedures for integration testing.
• Ensuring adherence to testing standards, best practices.
• Automate testing and test result reporting.
• Automate system performance monitoring during integration testing and identify potential bottlenecks or issues.
• Be capable of driving himself and deliver projects with end-to-end ownership and accountability.
• Ensuring high quality levels in all deliverables
• Participate and contribute to agile ceremonies, project compliance review and audit activities.
• Learn new technologies when directed as future development may involve diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies, and tools.
• Effectively convey message in both written and verbal development discussions
• Adhere to team’s governing principles and policies.
• Participate in mandatory training and cross functions across team.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm and zeal to acquire domain knowledge.

Requirements:

Education: B.E./B.Tech/M.S./M.Tech with good academic scores from top-tier colleges/universities

Certifications (if any): Certification (Not mandatory) but will be an added advantage.

Experience Range: 8-10+ years.

Foundational Skills:

• Hands on experience in executing end to end integration testing crossing multiple applications.
• Experience in using automation testing tool like Cucumber, Gherkin /UFT/Selenium (Any) is must.
• Hands on experience with implementing resiliency in applications. Exposure to
  • Performance & load testing.
  • Observability and monitoring across applications. Exposure to Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace and OTEL.
• Hands on exposure to test management tools.
• Proficiency in various testing types, including integration testing, system testing, regression testing, and performance and security testing.
• Experience in planning and executing integration test across systems via API calls or any other methodology.
• Core Java & Shell Scripting with strong programming skills.
• Strong SQL knowledge and understanding of databases.
• Good Analytical, Debugging and design skills.
• Be able to Face off to senior management/stakeholders globally.
• Ability and expertise working in AGILE development methodology.
• Must be a self-starter, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Desired Skills:

• Work experience in global markets – Equities Domain (preferably low latency)
• Exposure to architecture and design practices with experience in Java/Scala/Python.
• Exposure to LTA guiding principle to establish a QA process/framework.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud and Containerization including Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps tools like Ansible, Ansible tower, Jenkins. (CI/CD)

Work Timings:  11:30 AM – 8:30 PM

Job Location: Mumbai/Chennai