Automation Engineer

Who we are:

• Charles River Development (CRD) is the FinTech division of State Street.  Together with State Street’s Middle and Back-office services, Charles River’s cloud-based Front Office technology forms the foundation of the State Street Alpha® Platform, the first front-to-back solution in the industry.
• Our vision is to be the world’s leading investment platform, shaping the future of the industry and driving new levels of technology-led innovation, resiliency, efficiency and growth for investors and the people they serve.
• CRD Engineering organization is innovating and transforming the platform by moving away from monolithic software to utilising next generation cloud-based technology that leverages Microsoft Azure, Kafka, Snowflake, etc.
• Industry momentum has seen CRD grow over 135% in headcount over the last 5 years, and we continue to grow. As a digital innovation leader, we invest into our solutions, processes, systems, and talent.
• As a part of our talent growth strategy, CRD Engineering is actively hiring in Dublin as we are investing in growing our European presence. Our senior leadership team will be hosting in-person interview panels during our recruiting drive in the late September 2024.

Summary:

• Work as a senior member of automation center of excellence team to execute the overall quality plan for  Charles River’s products. Provide support and assistance to customers and other teams within Charles River.
• The candidate should be a sharp automation framework engineer with strong problem-solving skills and a solid automation test framework building foundation. This role requires a talented, detail oriented, enthusiastic individual who is passionate about quality with the ability to grasp tough issues quickly and deliver well engineered, high-quality solutions.
• We are looking for a strong software engineer to build out the next generation of our software test automation framework and infrastructure as part of our Quality Assurance Infrastructure team. The candidate will be responsible for developing, delivering and supporting the software infrastructure that enables automated product validation. This position provides services for planning and the execution of central automated regression runs for all product departments. In addition, this candidate is responsible for maintaining and expanding the labs which host both automated and manual testing as well as conducting staging and certification of the product media during the ship-stage of a release.
• Financial services industry experience is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the scrum master, product owner, architect, business analysts, product specialists, developers and other project team members to assist in carrying out the software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team
• Expand the test automation framework capabilities needed to comprehensively test business requirements for all products and services
• Create pipelines to execute automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests
• Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing
• Align with the Software Development Life Cycle practices, comply with Information Security and Data Governance practices
• Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in issue tracking system; proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members
• Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team’s QA methodology, innovate by researching and recommending new approaches to automation of testing, including use of Artificial Intelligence
• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Participate in “testathon” activities as required by releases
• Guide and mentor junior staff in best practices and proper creation of automated test scripts.

Qualifications:

Education:

B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study or Business with an MIS background. MS degree strongly preferred.

• Experience:
• 10-12 years of experience in building test automation frameworks in enterprise world and in a process driven technology environment
• Demonstrated experience programming with JAVA, SQL and shell scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash
• Demonstrated experience implementing automation framework with industry standard tools like Rest Assured, Playwright, Azure SDK, Kafka SDK, Cosmos DB, Swagger, Silk4Net, FlaUI, Talend strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience implementing and executing automation test scripts against web, native/desktop applications, APIs and batch applications.
• Experience with creating and updating on-demand pipelines and experience with relevant tools TeamCity, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD is preferred
• Demonstrated experience using test cases, scripts, and automated test tools for verifying requirements on multi-tier applications
• Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans
• Knowledgeable in one or more CRD functional areas is a plus
• A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired
• Effective written and verbal communication.

About State Street

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