Software QA Engineer

Job Description

Summary of the Position:

Technology professional responsible for assuring delivery of high-quality software by planning, designing, implementing, and automating software QA testing for both in-house developed and vendor licensed software. Responsibilities include understanding requirements, developing test plans for software releases, creating and executing test cases, writing and maintaining test automation code and reporting results. The role will also be responsible for developing meaningful QA metrics to track and monitor progress with improvements in test coverage, defect minimization and overall quality.

Primary Functions of the Position:

• Plan and implement testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, API, load, or performance tests) for new and existing functionality.
• Work closely with external software package vendors, in-house development partners and business product groups to refine product requirements, identify user scenarios, design testing strategies and integrate testing into the product design and development process.
• Plan, create, execute, and automate test cases, working with business partners, developers, and other stakeholders.
• Document and analyze test results and recommend corrective action.
• Isolate, reproduce, manage, and maintain defects and test case databases, and verify fixes.
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) conducted by business partners or end users.
• Design testing and risk analysis approaches for complex features (functionality that span across platforms or teams).
• Identify opportunities to reduce testing time and effort by automating repeatable tests, integrating test capabilities with CI/CD development pipelines.
• Develop and maintain a library of automated test cases that can be executed in a repeatable fashion to improve quality, minimize unforeseen failures, and improved efficiency when introducing vendor software releases into test and production environments.
• Enhance and maintain the test automation framework. Understand and apply automated testing best practices.
• Employ software engineering and test automation best practices to ensure automation test suites are robust and maintainable.
• Review developers' test plans to ensure comprehensive test coverage.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• BS or MS Degree in Information Science or Computer Science
• 5+ years of experience in a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) or Test Automation engineer role.
• Experience with test automation and test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Robot Framework, Cucumber, Postman).
• Experience with test management tools (e.g., HP ALM/Quality Center, TestRail, Xray, TestMonitor)
• Proven ability to maintain code repositories with Azure DevOps, Gitlab or similar.
• Experience or exposure to financial services technology and banking preferred.

Essential Skills and Abilities:

• Software development experience. Proficiency in Selenium, Java/Python, JavaScript
• Experience building/maintaining automation frameworks, and writing test automation scripts
• Experience with SQL
• Experience designing and implementing test plans
• Experience with application performance monitoring and observability tools.
• Attention to detail and ability to identify, isolate and document defects.
• Strong knowledge of agile practices and experience with agile planning tools (e.g., Jira).
• Strong leadership skills. Effective communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaboration skills and ability to work on a team.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn.

Education

Bachelor's: Accounting, Bachelor's: Business Administration, Bachelor's: Computer and Information Science

Work Experience

General Experience - 3 to 6 years

Certifications

Travel

Workstyle
Resident

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.
We expect our associates at all levels to:
Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James - as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.