Senior SDET

About the Team

Engineers in T. Rowe Price’s Distribution & Marketing Services – Individual Investor’s Technology organization are playing a key role in helping build the future of Individual Investor’s Advisory Services. The primary focus will be the development of modern, scalable solutions and is foundational for advancing T. Rowe Price’s retail advice offerings.

In this Senior SDET role you will design, develop, modify, adapt and implement short- and long-term automated testing solutions for new and existing applications, systems, databases and application infrastructure. You will review and interpret system requirements and business processes as well as code automated testing solutions and perform manual testing.

• Responsible for developing and executing comprehensive suites of automation test plans and test cases, maintaining and adding to existing automation framework, continued evaluation of test cases for inclusion in regression, automation for newly integrated features, and development of toolsets to augment QA and Development testing
• Drive end-to-end automation coverage by creating automated tests to validate application functionality, performance and reliability across UI, API and service layers
• Owns the stability, reliability and maintainability of automated test suites, ensuring effective integration and execution within CI/CD pipelines
• Responsible for functional, regression, database, accessibility and performance testing including UI, API and services testing
• Contributes to all parts of the SDLC, e.g., design, development, and testing with a focus on creating automated testing solutions
• Develops technical solutions following standard methodologies with some guidance from senior testing engineers
• Creates automated scripts to be used to test application functionality as well as monitor system performance and availability
• Identifies and remediates technical debt in our testing coverage
• Demonstrates strong analytical judgement, proactively clarifies requirements, and reliably delivers assigned work item
• Identifies quality risks early and communicates impact and mitigation options to the team

Required:

• Typically requires 5+ years of demonstrated hands-on automated software testing experience.
• Strong programming skills in Java and/or JavaScript/Type Script with solid understanding of object-oriented design principles.
• Proficiency with modern test automation tools and frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, Git and performance testing tool like JMeter.
• Proven experience in testing web UI and backend services.
• Ability to independently write automation code from scratch, and debug, troubleshoot, and stabilize automated tests with minimal assistance.
• Understanding of ATDD, TDD, BDD and modern test standards.
• Solid database querying and data validation skills.
• Experience building automated tests and test scripts and deploying to public or private clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or similar providers preferred.
• Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced, Agile/Scrum team environment.
• Result-driven mindset with focus on continuous improvement.
• Participates in performance and functional testing and works with the engineering team to resolve issues.
• Participate effectively in peer code reviews and applies feedback to improve test quality.

• Experience working in the financial services industry.
• AWS experience.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (e.g., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant work status).

FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.

This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to three days per week from home.