Payments – Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title Payments – Lead QA Engineer

Corporate Title Vice President

Location Cary, NC

Who we are

In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank’s technology solution, developing applications for key business areas.

Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands-on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.

Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology center in Cary, North Carolina in 2009. Learn more about us here.

Overview
 

Post Trade Automation Technology within the Investment Banking Division of Deutsche Bank is responsible for building and managing the Trade Documentation, Clearing & Settlement lifecycle and Asset Services functions across Cash and Securities products including Interest Rates and Credit Derivatives, Foreign Exchange, Repo, Bonds and Cash Equities.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

• A hybrid working model with up to 60% work from home, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days

• A commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility

• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement. Access to a strong network of Communities of Practice connecting you to colleagues with shared interests and values

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits. Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Act as the primary contact for the Business users and technology team for all aspects of project delivery

• Formulate and create Business Requirement documentation, closely working with Business User and Tech Leads/Solution architects

• Develop business requirement definition, documentation (such as solution briefs, traceability matrix, test strategy document, test cases) and sign-off

• Support newly identified conceptual designs and newly identified business solution options

• Resolve functional issues from all testing phases of software development lifecycle

• Lead QA team and manage end to end functional delivery. Articulate issues and risk to management in a timely manner

How You’ll Lead

• Design, develop, and deliver complex components of engineering solutions to satisfy changing and diverse business goals from Operations Team, Business Product Team, Upstream/Downstream Application Owners, Risk & Controls Team and Information Technology Deliver team

• Employ a range of methodological techniques to analyze computer problems and evaluate multiple solutions against engineering, business, and strategic criteria

• Lead and mentor Offshore & Onsite Testing team, fostering excellence in analysis, communication, and stakeholder management. Create, validate payment messages ISO 20022 (pacs, pain, camt), Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, La Hulpe, Belgium (SWIFT) MT/MX & validate end to end payment flows, other data reconciliations, exception handling and error scenarios. Deliver end to end first-class engineering solutions across a range of technology platforms, while improving delivery standards, working practices, tools, and solutions, and driving adoption of automation tools. Perform functional, integration, regression and E2E testing of payments, Drive test automation strategy for payments platform and continuous improvement in support processes, knowledge base usage, and incident response efficiency
   

Skills You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Engineering or related field or equivalent and Moderate of progressively responsible experience understanding the entire SDLC process and designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting and debugging during the implementation and enhancement process

• Prior experience must include Extensive progressively responsible experience gathering requirement analysis, requirement traceability, involved in functional integration, E2E testing and complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Participating in Scrum, requirement gathering, operational issues, offshore coordination, status meetings, business requirement review, design review, automation script writing, testing closure, operational walkthrough, dress rehearsal, production implementation and ensuring project deliverables

• Strong knowledge of payment life cycle, experience in working different payment types, SDLC. Documenting requirement gaps, design issues, & open defects and following up with project stakeholders and performing design evaluation for new and existing software products

• Technical & Automation Skills related to Business Analysis Tools, Data Analysis and Automation Technologies involving Cucumber, Selenium, JAVA, Structured Query Language (SQL), Eclipse, Maven & understanding of Cloud based platforms, Microservices & Application Programming Interface (API) & Data feeds
  
   

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Excellent communication, collaboration, mentorship, and problem-solving skills; creatively solving complex problems and taking ownership of the solution until its completion

• Domain experience with payments, banking, finance, or in another highly regulated environment and related certifications if any is a plus

• Proactive approach to exception management and operational issues.

• Strong change management mindset with the ability to support automation and transformation initiatives

• Balance between multiple stake holders and demonstrate professional maturity, integrity and confidentiality

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the Cary office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in Cary is $125000 to $ 185000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits

At Deutsche Bank, we recognize that our benefit programs have a profound impact on our colleagues. That’s why we are focused on providing benefits and perks that enable our colleagues to live authenti­cally and be their whole selves, at every stage of life. We provide access to physical, emotional, and financial wellness benefits that allow our colleagues to stay financially secure and strike balance between work and home. Click here to learn more!

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