Software Quality Assurance

Software Quality Assurance Overview

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.

• Work directly with the project team to understand business requirements that will help define the overall software test strategy and test plans in order to execute test cases via automated tools.
• Work directly with users, analysts, and developers to understand business processes and the software applications subject to testing, in order to deliver high‑quality software to our clients.
• Develop specific tests for any new software enhancement in the existing and new IT applications, both manual and automated tests as warranted.
• Develop automated tests for both front end level (through front end framework using Selenium) and backend level (through backend framework using JAVA/SQL).
• Develop Infrastructure As Code tests from scratch in a feature files using Gherkin.
• Validate infrastructure on Azure like storage accounts, cosmos DB, event grid, event hub, Postgres DB are as per the specifications.
• Develop and maintain Azure Dev Ops CICD Pipelines to Deploy and execute IAC Automated tests.
• Develop and maintain automated test cases to validate connectivity to Azure resources from AKS.
• Develop and maintain deployment yamls to create secret store and validate secrets.
• Validate AKS add‑on like CSI Driver, Keda, Ingress controller.
• Develop and maintain Docker images by writing Docker files.
• Participate in the metrics gathering process to propose and implement ongoing improvements.
• Interact with peers within the Company’s QA organization to proactively determine and resolve upstream and downstream impacts.
• Collaborate with peers on cross‑functional teams, primarily utilizing agile methodologies, to deliver high‑quality software solutions.
• Ensure proper procedures and controls are in place throughout the software testing process.
• Utilize knowledge of object‑oriented design and coding.
• Handle micro‑services and calls between them, different databases (Oracle, Postgre
  
  SQL etc.) and competent SQL query.
• Handle development‑operations, including code builds, deployment and environment set up operations.
• Apply software engineering standards, metrics, and quality assurance principles in the performance of job duties.
• Full‑time telecommuting permitted pursuant to company policy.

• 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, 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.

• Demonstrated experience in object‑oriented design and Java.
• Demonstrated experience coding with automated testing frameworks including Selenium.
• Demonstrated experience working on tools like Azure Dev Ops, 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 Dev Ops.
• Demonstrated experience writing docker files to create docker images.
• Demonstrated experience writing yaml files for deployments, ADO Pipelines.
• Proven experience with different databases including Oracle and Postgre
  
  SQL.
• 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…