QA Automation Engineer

Title: QA Automation Engineer

Location: Southlake, TX (On-site 3 days per week)

Duration: 12 months

This position is for a software quality assurance test automation engineer on the Sales and Service Technology team. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and enhancing automated test plans solutions that support our business within a highly distributed Java Web Service application infrastructure. The Sales and Service Technology team is a forward leaning development organization that leverages agile methodologies.

This position will interact with business stakeholders and technology counterparts across many areas within Schwab.

• Work with agile team members.
• Provide creative solutions via the application of technology in a highly dynamic environment.
• Implement software to meet functional requirements as well as robust, fault tolerant, and 24x7x365 available.
• Provide expertise in web based, distributed, and cloud based computing application development.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• 3 - 5 years' experience in quality assurance with distributed applications across the full development and operational support life cycle
• Experience with RESTful API TDD, BDD, and performance testing best practices and testing tools (swagger, postman, jmeter, rest-assured)
• Familiarity of the Java Spring Technology Stack and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Bit Bucket, Maven, Bamboo, MongoDB, Kafka)
• Interact with product managers, business analysts, and developers to define test plans and test cases for new and enhanced capability
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams, working collaboratively across team boundaries
• Demonstrated ability to work alone or in a group while multi-tasking on different projects
• Working knowledge of the Agile/Scrum development methodology a plus
• Salesforce Platform