Test Automation Engineer (Software Engineer)

Company Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

• Bachelor's degree specializing in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or a closely related field, from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.
• Typically requires at least 3 years of relevant experience.
• Intermediate to senior understanding of the subject. Working understanding within job family and can apply knowledge from previous experience/lessons learned to influence approach to new or unusual circumstances. May possess in-depth and/or breadth of knowledge in discipline.
• Performs most or all work independently with general to limited supervision and direction. May consult with management or more senior staff in decision-making. May serve as a resource for less experienced staff.
• Broad, in-depth understanding and experience with the quality assurance and testing discipline.
• Develops test scenarios/user acceptance criteria by collaborating with other members of the product delivery team during Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Experience with Cucumber or other BDD tools is required.
• Develops, reviews, and executes test plans, test scripts, and test data to ensure application products and services meet business needs, quality standards, and end user/non-functional requirements (i.e., environments and user interfaces). Experience with Selenium or similar technology is required. Experience with REST assured or similar technology is preferred.
• Documents, tracks, and resolves software defects or issues in collaboration with other members of the product delivery team.
• Ensures quality is built into the software solution throughout the software development lifecycle by performing peer reviews and leveraging relevant quality assurance processes and technologies.
• Develops and communicates software quality measures that report the reliability, compliance/accessibility, performance, and security of the software products and services developed.
• Works closely with delivery partners to understand and align software quality assurance services with product delivery approach, developing and driving a comprehensive testing strategy that helps drive prioritization of the work needed to further automate testing in our pipelines.
• Proficiency in proactive exploratory testing is preferred.
• Familiarity with industry software development methodologies, standards and architecture frameworks.
• Proficiency using modern CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tooling (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, GitLab, Maven, Nexus, Fortify, Sonar, etc) is required.
• Proficient in Agile software development principles is required.
• Expertise with Java Applications is preferred.
• Experience with AWS cloud services is preferred.
• Clearly communicates analysis findings and design details.
• Elicits multi-perspective points of view when clarifying customer needs. Maps business value to tasks.
• Proactively adopts process improvements and strives to reach team goals. Effectively multi-tasks. Exhibits intellectual curiosity.
• Positively influences and promotes team effectiveness.
• Exhibits high technical competence with a limited range of technology areas within application development or delivery.
• Exhibits structured thinking and problem decomposition to abstract problems.