What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Architect position at EDWARD JONES?
At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 15,000 branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.
In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.
In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.
Edward Jones is looking for a Test Engineering Architect to lead our Portfolio automation strategy and other strategic initiatives. This role operates as a technical, hands-on facilitator in the Quality Organization and is a strategic participant across inter-dependent software development efforts. The ideal candidate cares deeply about efficiency in the software development process and has demonstrated experience leveraging industry-leading tools and frameworks to deliver complete automated test suites. They will own test architecture for Edward Jones' Quality test engineering efforts and partner with various groups to drive cross-functional initiatives. We strive to make our teams successful by partnering with key stakeholders to understand their use cases and building comprehensive test strategies to meet these testing requirements. We work together with all of our quality test engineers, continuously looking to improve on our automation processes and best practices.
Job Duties and ResponsibilitiesDevelop and lead the quality assurance strategy within the portfolio, in collaboration with functional area counterparts
Responsible for architecting test automation systems, and determining the optimal test automation technologies for solutions delivered using disparate languages and platforms in collaboration with test and development engineer counterparts
Responsible for identifying and defining strategic and productivity initiatives to improve quality and velocity of the organization
Partner with delivery teams to track and act upon key performance indicators to enable continuous improvement of product quality and user experience
Partner with the various software infrastructure teams to optimize the CI pipeline and implement quality gates to support DevOps
Communicate a coherent vision for quality best practices, coding standards, release strategy and tool usage
Required Education and Experience10 years of proven experience in an application development/testing role, developing in a source-controlled environment.
5 years hands-on experience developing automation tools, framework, continuous integration
Enterprise software experience, Cloud and/or SaaS providers, or web application providers is a plus
3-5 years of experience developing test automation solutions for presentation layers and APIs
Experience establishing Test Automation Frameworks and creating reusable components libraries while implementing effective quality assurance strategies and best practices
Experience using the following technologies/tools:
Strong knowledge and extensive experience in various types of testing (Unit, Integration, API, Smoke, System, Browser compatibility, etc.)
Must be experienced in creating a strategic technology direction, aligning it with tactical activities, and communicating plans broadly across the organization.
Excellent leadership, collaboration, and motivational skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills across multiple audiences with proven ability to collaborate at various levels and to find solutions
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to find creative solutions
Exceptional problem-solving skills and knowledge of root cause analysis
SQL experience in data creation and validating results against expected results
Ability to research requirements to determine system feasibility, costs, benefits, or functional requirements.
Ability to multi-task and participate in multiple large and complex efforts or projects.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and train other associates in their area of expertise
Proactive, self-motivated and independent with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or Management Information Systems preferred or related work experience.
- Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured or equivalent web-service automation tool
- JUnit, TestNG, Spock, Cucumber/Gherkin, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma
- Gradle, Maven
- GitHub, Jira, IntelliJ, Eclipse
- Test data management
- Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD tools
- Kubernetes and microservices, Restful APIs
- 2021 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® By Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE Magazine – Edward Jones was named No. 20 on the list.
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- 2021 Corporate Equality Index – Edward Jones joins the ranks of 767 major U.S. businesses that received top marks in the Foundation’s 19th annual scorecard on LGBTQ workplace equality.
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- 2021 Training Top 100 list - Edward Jones ranked No. 19, up six spots from last year in its 21st consecutive year on this prestigious list.
- J.D. Power, 2021 – Edward Jones has ranked "highest in Employee Advisor Satisfaction among Financial Investment Firms" in the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study.
- Edward Jones received the highest score among employee advisors in the J.D. Power 2007,2008, 2010, 2012-2015, 2017-2021 Financial Advisor Satisfaction Studies of employee advisors’ satisfaction among those who are employed by an investment services firm. Visit jdpower.com/awards for more information.
Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. [ Link removed ] - Click here to apply to Technical Architect to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate:
Salary: $106916 - $182047
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