Manager

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
Data Infrastructure & Strategic Initiatives team is responsible for all the automation aspects of testing processes, ensuring quality of data and independent testing of corporate & business level process and regulatory controls by providing seamless access to the appropriate data & platforms required to execute the associated portfolio of tests. 
A test is defined in the Independent Testing Enterprise Policy as “An independent point-in-time examination of one or more processes, controls, policies and procedures or data sources utilized for managing risk to assess the effectiveness of the control environment. A test is focused on answering a specific objective and has a pre-defined pass/fail criteria.” Compliance testing may include activities such as automated surveillance and transaction level testing and may be performed onsite.  Please note: This is not an application/software testing or application/software development role.

Job Description
As an SME, drive sustainable automation in EIT (Enterprise Independent Testing) test design, development, and implementation using a modern infrastructure and thoughtfully-designed solutions. Additionally, train/mentor the Test Automation team and help with creating dashboards for the reporting purposes.

Responsibilities: 
•    Developing testing automation that provides 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 SME will then convert the test requirements into automated tests via Python and SQL.
•    Enabling automatic test document generation from code.
•    Leverage SDLC/Agile development, understand Coding standards and best practices.
•    Perform debugging and code reviews to ensure quality of code.
•    Ensure accuracy and quality development and hold validation session with the stakeholders to get a sign-off .
•    Ensure adherence to the SLA’s / Metrics – productivity, turnaround-time and accuracy.
•    Communicate regularly with management and other support colleagues. 
•    Manage stakeholders with respect to business deliverables.