Senior Quality Engineer

Title: Senior Quality Engineer Location: Durham, NC
Duration: 6+ Months

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Must Have: Candidates must have 6 plus years of Quality Engineering experience in an automated testing environment, 4 plus years of experience building automation for web applications, strong experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Cucumber, Serenity or Cypress, strong experience testing REST and SOAP APIs using tools such as Rest Assured and JUnit, experience working in Agile environments, experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and Artifactory, experience testing applications in AWS cloud environments, and must be a strong communicator able to collaborate across teams.
Candidate Submissions: Not specified
Interview Process: Not specified
Notes: This role supports Fidelity Institutional Technology and focuses on driving quality through automation, test strategy, and CI/CD processes. Candidates should be comfortable working across multiple technologies and contributing to both development and testing efforts in a fast paced Agile environment.
Nice to Have: Experience with Docker or Kubernetes, experience creating mock services for microservices testing, experience with multiple programming languages such as Java, C#, or TypeScript, and experience with Atlassian tools such as XRay.

The Team

This candidate will be applying strong software development and test automation skills to test, deploy and maintain solutions with a goal towards greater delivery, efficiency, and quality. You will be working with different collaborators including business partners, architects, systems analysts, engineers and tech leads to develop and maintain critical functionality. Your work impacts the thousands of registered investment advisors, correspondents, and individual investors who use our platform.

The Expertise we re looking for

• A bachelor s or master s degree in computer science, Software engineering or related field
• 6+ years of Quality Engineering experience in an automated testing environment.
• 4+ years of experience building strong automation for web-based applications
• 4+ years of experience working in an Agile environment
• 2+ years of development experience is a plus
• Strong understanding of QA methodology and the Software Development Lifecycle using Agile principles in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe Agile)
• Experience testing enterprise applications deployed to cloud environments such as AWS.
• Experience in automated testing using Playwright, Cucumber, Serenity, Cypress or similar tools
• Automated SOAP/REST API testing
• Automated CI/CD pipeline execution and build tools including Jenkins / Jenkins Core, Artifactory, Soteri/Credential
• Multi-stack engineer with knowledge in development technologies and test automation frameworks (Java/J2EE, Cucumber, Selenium, Serenity, JavaScript/Angular, Spring, Web Services)
• Knowledge in creating mock services to use microservice
• Demonstrate a high level of motivation, confidence, integrity, and able to handle multiple responsibilities.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and are adaptable to change
• Passionate about Test Driven Development, developing robust software, writing testable and maintainable code

The Skills you bring

• Hands-on working experience any with GUI / Web Automation Testing Tool (Cucumber Serenity or similar) and Ready API.
• Hands-on working experience of testing REST or SOAP APIs (Java, JUnit, Rest Assured)
• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following technologies: CI/CD pipeline (e.g., Terracore), containers (e.g., Docker), container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and build tools including Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket
• Hands-on experience with any of the following languages: (C#, VB.Net, Angular, Typescript, Java, HTML, and XML).
• Hands-on working experience using any of the following tools (Python, Eclipse, Jenkins, Cucumber, etc.)
• Hands-on years working experience in Unit Test/Coded UI Tests/Functional Test Development.
• Experience using the Atlassian suite or any other source code management, defect tracking tools (XRay)
• Basic working knowledge of testing fundamentals such as TDD & BDD.
• Able to learn large software systems end-to-end quickly
• Keenly interested in learning new technologies
• Strong analytical and communication skills required

The Value you deliver

• Work closely with the Agile team members to drive the team's commitments to quality
• Defining and implementing test strategies, scenarios, and steps for automated and functional testing
• Build automation test framework and tools
• Actively participate in the development process through designing, writing, and maintaining application features and automated tests including unit tests, functional tests and end-to-end regression tests
• Quality inspections of test and development and the corresponding audit artifacts within the team
• Drive and deliver quality control around CI/CD pipeline process and implementations
• Provide technical guidance/coaching to developers on quality tasks
• Participate in scrum activities such as stand ups, story grooming sessions, and sprint planning
• Collaborate with team members on improving team's test coverage, release velocity and production health
• Working and collaborating with new technologies to tackle test challenges and process improvements
• Leading the quality process for product development