Intern - FedNow Software Quality Engineer

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via Fed Line® Solutions, Fed Now®, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), Fed Cash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) platform with integrated clearing functionality, called the Fed Now Service. This service enables financial institutions to provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission‑critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.

This internship will be primarily on-site at our Boston office.

As an SQE intern, you have the coding skills of a developer and a passion for driving quality into the product at all phases of the product delivery lifecycle. As member of the Fed Now program, you will have the chance and support to develop truly innovative test automation solutions. You will have an opportunity to help shape the future of test automation by contributing to the creation of frameworks while working in a cutting‑edge continuous integration and delivery model.

Working closely with the software developers, you will contribute to automated testing solutions by participating in many facets of automation, including integration testing, back‑end testing, data validations, API and so much more.

• Partner with a mentor to understand the current code base, set up your environments, and get ready to participate
• Collaborate with product owners, subject matter experts and develop testing strategies and approaches to support multiple distributed agile teams
• Write effective code to add or modify testing frameworks and write automated test cases using the latest technologies
• Reproduce defects in your local environment, integration environments, and write code to fix the bugs
• Participate in activities focused around the agile software development cycle
• Design, develop and support test automation, participate in test planning and bug triages
• Contribute and collaborate on test frameworks, environments, tool selection and infrastructure
• Identify data requirements and generate and maintain test data

• Support product requirements and feature roadmaps from concept through delivery
• Gather, analyze and translate business needs into actionable, clearly defined feature acceptance criteria and user stories
• Prioritize user stories aligned with program increment objectives and priorities, as well as product management’s overall vision and strategy for the product
• Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade‑off analysis to manage scope creep, and stay on track toward business deliverable commitments
• Continuously refine backlog to ensure features and user stories have detailed and accurate acceptance criteria and are ‘ready’ for development to start
• Serve as a subject matter expert and primary contact for your assigned domain, and also maintain a breadth of higher level expertise regarding the Fed Now service
• Surface and track cross‑functional dependencies and schedules to reassess priorities and manage releases
• Continuously communicate and collaborate with Product Manager on prioritization, refinement, and problem solving
• Attend, lead and/or participate in agile team ceremonies in the role of Product Owner (e.g., iteration and increment planning, stand‑ups, refinement, iteration review, retrospective, release planning)
• Prioritize defect resolution and manage the backlog to address product quality issues
• Approve or reject…