Specialist - Software Development & Engineering

Pay range: USD $103,494.00 - $115,000.00 / Year

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.

Job Duties: Determine and communicate automation strategies and processes for web services, APIs, middleware, UI, etc., evaluate and implement software test automation tools and tooling standards. Maintain tools used in automation development, including source control, test management, and release systems. Develop methods and procedures to create automation test data and data refresh capabilities. Facilitate test automation and drive continuous integration and deployment strategies with a DevOps philosophy. Build automation frameworks to increase, reuse, and reduce effort. Decrease automation cycle run times and decrease the need for manual analysis of results. Keep automation current, flexible, and designed to work within a continuous integration and deployment framework. Assist developers with robust units and components and build and deploy/CI/CD test automation as needed, understanding or practice of TDD, ATDD, and BDD. Recommend meaningful and automated dynamic reports and metrics that measure the success of automation efficiency and quality and provide action items for continuous improvements. Interact with various levels of individual contributors and management to educate and influence. Work with assigned product teams, product owners, and scrum masters to compose and manage testing schedules and metrics, and provide project and release status updates to all levels of management. Influence, develop, and execute QA process and testing best practices.

What you have

Job Requirements: Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and 12 months of experience in a related occupation. Requires some experience involving the following: Design and implement test strategies using C# for Functional, Regression, Integration, Black box, and End-to-End testing; Web Services and RESTful API testing using tools including Parasoft SOA or Postman; Automated browser compatibility testing across multiple servers/ browsers using Selenium WebDriver; Develop and execute SQL queries to automate data verification and validate database transactions reducing manual validation efforts across multiple database environments; Execute Load Performance Testing using JMeter; Automated Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processed by integrating Selenium scripts into tools including Bamboo or Jenkins for nightly batch runs; Analyze and document detailed test requirements and cases for web-based applications; Validate ETL processes by monitoring data loads, comparing extracted data with source systems, and resolving data inconsistencies; Utilize Jira and Confluence in Agile environments to document test execution, report defects and collaborate on sprint deliverables; and Design and schedule Jenkins jobs for automated execution of regression and smoke test suites to optimize pipeline performance.

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance