Software Quality Assurance

Software Quality Assurance (State Street Bank & Trust Company)(Boston, MA): The Software Quality Assurance position is for an experienced software professional working on State Street's internal, proprietary Enterprise Servicing Platform, a Data warehouse tool. The position necessitates a thorough understanding of leading IT technologies and the software development lifecycle for application testing. Duties include: Working directly with the project team to understand the business requirements that will help define the overall software test strategy and test plans in order to execute test cases via automated tools; Working directly with users, analysts, and developers to understand business processes and the software applications subject to testing, in order to deliver highquality software to our clients; Developing specific tests for any new software enhancement in the existing and new IT applications, both manual and automated tests as warranted; Developing automated tests for both Front end level (through front end framework using Selenium) and Backend level (through backend framework using JAVA/SQL); Developing Infrastructure As Code tests from scratch in a feature files using Gherkin; Validating Infrastructure on Azure like storage accounts, cosmos DB, event grid, event hub, Postgres DB are as per the specifications; Develop and maintain Azure Devops CICD Pipelines to Deploy and execute IAC Automated tests; Develop and maintain Automate test cases to validate connectivity to azure resources from AKS; Develop and maintain deployment yamls to create secret store and validate secrets; Validating AKS add-on like CSI Driver, Keda, Ingress controller; Develop and maintain Docker images by writing Docker files; Participating in the metrics gathering process in order to propose and implement ongoing improvements; Interacting with peers within the Company's QA organization to proactively determine and resolve upstream and downstream impacts; Collaborating with peers on cross-functional teams, primarily utilizing agile methodologies, to deliver high-quality software solutions; Ensuring proper procedures and controls are in place throughout the software testing process; Utilizing knowledge of objectoriented design and coding; Micro-Services and the calls between them; different databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL etc.) and competent SQL query; Development-Operations, including code builds, deployment and environment set up operations; and software engineering standards, metrics, and quality assurance principles in the performance of job duties. Full-time telecommuting permitted pursuant to company policy.

Minimum Requirements: Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or its equivalent; plus 2 year(s) of experience in IT technologies and the software development lifecycle for application testing. Alternatively, the employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or its equivalent; plus 5 year(s) of experience in IT technologies and the software development lifecycle for application testing.

Must have: Demonstrated experience in object-oriented design and Java; Demonstrated experience coding with automated testing frameworks including Selenium; Demonstrated experience working on tools like Azure Devops, Jenkins, Terraform, GIT, JFrog Artifactory, JIRA and Confluence; Demonstrated experience in Docker, AKS and Kubernetes; Demonstrated experience Developing frameworks for backend testing using Java, Rest Assured, Cucumber, Test NG; Demonstrated experience setting up CICD Pipelines using Jenkins, RTC, Azure Devops; Demonstrated experience writing dockerfiles to create docker images; Demonstrated experience writing yaml files for deployments, ADO Pipelines; Proven experience with different databases including Oracle and PostgreSQL; Demonstrated experience coding complex SQL queries; Proven knowledge of development-operations including code builds, deployment and environment set up operations; Demonstrated experience in financial software services; Proven ability to pay strong attention to detail; Demonstrated experience in software quality assurance in a software environment through all stages of product development; Proven ability to problem solve and communicate interpersonal and analytical skills; Demonstrated ability to manage multiple deadlines; and Proven knowledge of software engineering standards metrics and quality assurance principles. (Unless otherwise indicated, State Street is seeking the ability in the skills listed above with no specific number of years of experience required. All experience can be gained concurrently).

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Salary Range:
$140,525 - $150,000 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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