Quality Specialist 2 - Selenium/Playwright

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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Position Summary:
This job is responsible for testing and delivering complex software to accomplish business outcomes. The job establishes testing scope and coordinates test execution. Key responsibilities of the job include overseeing testing practices ensuring that software is tested to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, conditioning and generating test data, building and executing both manual and automated test suites, recording and communicating the test results, triage defects, and ensuring regression test suites are maintained and well designed.seeking an experienced Quality Engineer with strong passion for software quality and with strong technical skills to be able to get involved regression testing and automation effort. Candidate is expert in analyze, execute, troubleshoot, develop test cases, develop automation framework and assist team in ongoing support and delivery efforts. Candidate is also expected to own regression tests and execute them both via automation and manually as needed. Candidate will be responsible for supporting team in regression testing, automation activities through Java development and scripting routines, enhancing and optimizing a custom Java based automation framework atop Selenium, Http protocol, SoapUI. Documenting best practices, mentoring team members and developing functional test plans. 

Responsibilities:

• Develops detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test cases based on functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements
• Leads test planning, usually at a team level. When part of a Scrum team, ensure stories are well refined and contain clear acceptance criteria
• Leads test case reviews and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to ensure test coverage
• Identifies automation opportunities and develop test automation for applicable test types
• Executes test cases, including manual and automated tests, and record test results
• Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments
• Uses testing tools and follow processes to complete testing on a given test environment, and perform necessary steps required to promote code base to higher level environments

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA and test automation experience supporting large-scale, high-volume enterprise applications.
• Strong Java programming skills with hands-on experience developing, maintaining, and debugging automation frameworks.
• Expertise in UI automation using Selenium and/or Playwright.
• Strong experience with REST API automation using Java and YAML configurations, with working knowledge of SOAP/SoapUI.
• 3+ years of experience with SQL and backend/database testing, including Oracle and Cassandra.
• Strong knowledge of the end-to-end QA lifecycle, including test planning, automation, execution, defect management, and reporting.
• Experience with Octane, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Maven, and Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies and experience driving QA process improvements, including risk-based testing.
• Exposure to Copilot or AI-assisted development tools for automation and productivity.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Domain knowledge of Consumer & Retail Banking, Wealth Management
• Experience with mobile application testing.
• Familiarity with Authentication and Identity technologies.
• Proficiency with Splunk for troubleshooting, log analysis, and issue investigation.
• Understanding of test data management and data validation practices.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD environments

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 - WA - Seattle - 401 Union St - Rainier Square (WA1510)Pay and benefits informationPay range$89,700.00 - $128,500.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis 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.BenefitsThis 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.