Digital Software Engineer Senior Analyst; SDET), Assistant Vice President

Overview of the Role

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience.

We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well‑rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride.

If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Digital Software Engineer Senior Analyst (SDET) is a Technology/Engineering role involving both development and testing. As a member of the SCRUM team, you will be delivering customer‑facing banking and/or credit‑card features on digital channels such as browser and mobile. You will be involved in all stages of the Agile SDLC cycle:
Requirement analysis
: grooming of user stories, story pointing, decomposing big stories into smaller stories and defining acceptance criteria;
Design Review
: reviewing screens, flows, features, and customer communications (emails, SMS’s, notifications, PDF documents) and ensuring consistency with acceptance criteria;
Software development
: developing, configuring and debugging applications comprising web and mobile front‑end and micro‑services;
Validations
: creating automated and manual test scripts on a BDD (Behavior‑Based Development) framework, executing test scripts, identifying, triaging and fixing defects, and maintaining test data;
Artifact Ownership
: creating and maintaining test artifacts such as test plans and exit reports, maintaining traceability as per SDLC guidelines, and ensuring no untested code goes to production;
SDLC Process and Standards
: adhering to ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) guidelines, participating in retrospectives, process‑improvement workshops and audits, and performing root cause analysis;
Postproduction support
: supporting technical check‑outs during release go‑live and post‑production activities.

• Turn tech stack and application design into code on multiple development platforms (e.g. iOS, Android, web/Angular, Java Spring Boot services).
• Use AI tools like Copilot for code generation, refactoring, and debugging.
• Develop and maintain BDD automated and manual scripts in a code repository. Execute them, maintain test results in a test‑management tool for reporting and establishing traceability. Create Jenkins jobs and plug into a CI‑CD pipeline.
• Accelerate unit tests, API scaffolding, Angular components, and Spring Boot boilerplate using AI tools.
• Actively participate in the entire software‑development cycle, integrating development and end‑to‑end testing in a CI/CD environment (RTC, Jenkins, RLM). Automate and enable shift‑left.
• Be accountable for development, design, construction, testing and implementation, writing secure,…