Quality Engineer

• Actively seek continuous improvement and automation opportunities within the testing process
• Acquire and apply expertise in the quality engineering discipline, provide guidance, assistance, and direction to others
• Identify, recommend, and effectively execute standard practices applicable to the discipline
• Adhere to internal policies/procedures and applicable regulatory guidelines
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
• Collaboratively engage with relevant stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external, to shift from finding defects to proactively preventing defects
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
• Monitor service, productivity and assess efficiency levels within own function and implement continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exist
• Provide quick feedback throughout the development and design process; analyze, and reports on the test results to confirm that the quality of the intended solution is met.
• Supports test planning (including testability of requirement), test design/development test case automation and test execution to achieve business outcomes. Integrates directly into a team’s continuous delivery process, augmenting the delivery of quality software and ensuring speed, agility and risk management.
• Serve as a partner and provide ongoing support to the enterprise and/or business, aligning to Testing Methodology and QE best-practices
• Analyze the end-to-end solution (business, solution requirements, architecture, blueprints, etc.) requirements to recommend pragmatic and sound test specific solutions for own area; may analyze, develop, debug, and maintain test suites (automated/ manual), traceability matrix; and log defects/assist in defect resolution, as required
• Implement effective test strategies and providing guidance to delivery teams in using tools / setting up environments that support on-going quality and traceability
• Support the team in test activities across the testing lifecycle, with a focus on value driven outcomes, and assist in defining test data and test environment requirements
• Leverage virtual assets to support virtualization of any incomplete, unavailable code, service, database, etc.
• Understanding of test data management to reuse automated test data provisioning capabilities to be able to adopt a standard test data tool set.
• May begin to support source code management looking for opportunities to effectively leverage tools and engineering practices (DevOps tools and processes, SV, monitoring tools and process, etc.
• Contribute on the design and development process to ensure built-in-quality code
• Implement test scripts ensuring they are integrated into the continuous integration, delivery, and testing (CI/CD/CT) pipeline for functional and non-functional automation (performance, readiness / reliability testing (ORT), accessibility, security) following agreed upon approach using available frameworks.
• Responsible and / or accountable for documenting and supporting the proactive identification of end-to-end test solution designs and early automation opportunities.
• Work collaboratively with the development team to define and validate appropriate user stories, acceptance criteria and definitions of done / ready.
• Apply the principles of Behavior, Test-Driven Development (BDD / TDD), and focus on value driven outcomes.
• Provide feedback, reporting and analytics on overall quality, performance, user experience, and future bug prevention.

Shareholder

• Contribute to various operational activities and prescribed engineering processes
• Be knowledgeable of quality engineering practices and procedures within own area of responsibility and keep abreast of emerging trends for own functional area
• Protect the interests of the organization – identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high-risk activities as necessary
• Conduct internal and external research projects; support the development, delivery of presentations, and communications to management or broader audience

Employee/Team

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Support the team by continuously enhancing knowledge / expertise in own area and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit; Support knowledge-sharing across teams and with relevant stakeholders, ensuring knowledge is codified, monitored, tracked, and managed
• Work collaboratively with the team and leadership to proactively identify and resolve issues related to product quality
• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
• Keep others informed and up to date about the status, progress of projects, and all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Contribute to the success of the team by willingly assisting others in the completion and performance of work activities; provide training, coaching and/or guidance as appropriate.
• Contribute to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

Breadth & Depth

• Experienced working professional role providing specialized testing planning, design, automation and execution services
• Solid debugging and problem-solving skills – solving moderately complex problems
• Supports the introduction and adherence to new / advanced techniques, and approaches in testing and automation (e.g., BDD, Rapid Software Testing)
• Foundational experience in software configuration and code management
• Good expertise in build / code / release management to enable defect avoidance
• Solid business and technology acumen, works with other stakeholders to identify opportunities to benefit the Client and / or introduce operational improvements
• Ability to drive work efforts related to moderately complex applications / systems / projects within one product line / business
• Ability to work independently and with minimal guidance and direction
• Collaborative team player
• Future focused - foresees issues and gaps and identifies industry trends

• BS degree in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline; or equivalent practical experience.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• Background of the Financial Services Industry. Knowledge on Commercial Lending Business, retail banking, Treasury Management, and Credit Adjudication
• Strong experience in understanding functional requirements, plan, design and execute end-to-end tests.
• Create & execute the integration and end-to-end test scenarios & cases.
• Strong experience in test automation development for full stack components using Parasoft SOATest, Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured, TestNG, Business Driven Development (BDD), Cucumber.
• Experience and continuous testing mindset in CI/CD environment.
• Good experience working in Java and JSON. Ability to write code/ functions for complex scenarios, integration points and supporting multiple technologies (legacy and digital).
• Excellent hands-on experience using tools like Jenkins, Mavin, Jira /JTMF, Bitbucket
• Relational Database – SQL writing and understanding of queries, and statements.
• Experience with API testing

Desired:

• Good experience with Splunk
• Experience using Unix scripting and commands, XLM, and Python.
• Data and File transfer testing for Batch Processing / Scheduling, FTP, IBM MQ / Distributed MQ
• Experience in Test strategy and planning.
• Test Leadership experience

GalaxE is a professional IT services firm that specializes in platform-driven solutions and the use of automation to achieve enterprise business transformation and mission-critical change for some of the largest companies in the world. Using our proprietary solution set, GxFource®, we apply machine learning techniques and predictive analytics tools as part of a broad artificial intelligence strategy that provides effective impact and data-driven business transformation.

Since its founding, GalaxE has been dedicated to advancing the benefits of technology. As we continue that legacy and look to the future, a focus on business enablement through agile, cost-efficient, and effective integration of people, process, and technology anchors our success. We revolutionize change in the costs of doing business that transform companies and their ability to leap beyond the competition.

At GalaxE we value people and are committed to diversity and inclusion where our employees are made to feel comfortable and are encouraged to be authentic. We focus on cultivating both traditional IT and non-traditional, new collar, workers through our Outsource to America®, program.

We are always looking for passionate, entrepreneurial-minded innovators and disrupters; game-changers that take ownership of the work they produce and bring it each and every day. Working with like-minded team members you will get a chance to discover, develop, and use cutting-edge technologies to transform the way we deliver creative business solutions.

Sound like you? Join us and find out for yourself what it means for you, and your career, to be part of the GalaxE team. Let’s build something, together. #WeAreGalaxE

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of remaining stationary at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift to 15 lbs., as needed
• Must be able to work on-site (corporate/client offices), as needed (not applicable for 100% remote roles)
• Occasionally required to bend, kneel, crouch, and reach overhead.
• Hand-eye coordination necessary to operate computers and various pieces of office equipment.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, the ability to tolerate fluorescent lighting, and the ability to adjust focus.

Employees must be able to perform the physical requirements of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees requiring accommodations to perform the essential functions of their jobs, absent undue hardship.

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