Quality Specialist II

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Position Summary

Quality Assurance Engineer assisting with testing and validation of FX execution app suite

Required Qualifications

• Exceptional QA analytical skills with emphasis on test plan creation, planning, and execution
• 6+ years of experience with QA testing of enterprise systems
• Exceptional manual and automation testing skills
• Knowledge or experience of agile development (primarily SCRUM) and continuous integration
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills in a high-pressure environment.
• Understanding of Messaging Middleware concepts, usage, and application
• Ability to demonstrate working knowledge of database and Unix systems.
• Candidate must be a strong team player with excellent communication skills.
• Solid knowledge of contemporary development processes, build environments and testing tools
• Comfortable in communicating with business users

Desired Qualifications

• Experience creating automated tests (i.e. Cucumber, Selenium, custom frameworks)
• Knowledge or experience using BDD tests and/or Cucumber testing framework.
• Experience with testing automation via UFT
• Experience with UNIX systems and understanding shell-based log file review commands
• Experience working in a front office e-trading platform development team
• Experience working with global development teams
• Electronic trading application testing skills
• Experience testing large scale order execution and trading platforms

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Automation
• Business Acumen
• Test Engineering
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• User Experience Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - IL - Chicago - 540 W Madison St - Bank Of America Plaza (IL4540)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$89,700.00 - $128,100.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.

Client-provided location(s): Chicago, IL

Job ID: Merrill-JR-25040555

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-03T18:49:58