What are the responsibilities and job description for the SDET Engineer position at Charles Schwab Inc.?
Your Opportunity
At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.
The Retail Web Technology organization provides a high quality, common platform for all Schwab clients including advisors, individuals, and active investors. Each Retail Web Technology engineering team is responsible for test strategy and planning, authoring test plans and scripts, and automating functional and regression testing as part of our goal to deliver best-in-class features on Schwab.com. In RWT, we strive to embody Schwab’s Through Clients' Eyes strategy through our people and creative solutions.
What you’ll do:
Are you a highly skilled, QA-focused Software Developer? Do you live the ATDD dream, and share our expertise writing excellent automation using WebdriverIO, Protractor, or Ruby? We'd love to tell you more. Your responsibilities would include:
- Implement standard methodologies, resolve test issues, track and prioritize defects, record test results, participate in product readiness and release decisions
- Ensure automation is constantly running, analyzing, and promptly reporting on failures
- Participate in technical governance and help facilitate overall product quality standards with development and business teams
- Foster our end-to-end testing approach across multiple applications
- Research, investigate, and implement Agile testing practices, Test Driven Development, Test Automation and reporting Test Metrics
- Amplify our philosophy to consistency communicate and report with a quality emphasis
- Liaise with product teams, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to integrate project plans, testing schedules, and metrics reporting
- Assist in driving Use Case and User Story reviews, and help resolve requirements ambiguities
- Partner with geographically-distributed teams to plan our future QA tooling and technology decisions
What you have
Required Qualifications
- 5-7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance
- 3 years developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts
- Solid understanding of QA practices (black box testing, risk-based testing, system testing, regression testing, exploratory testing)
- Hands-on coding experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, C# or other object-oriented programming languages
- Experience with Selenium WebDriver, Angular UI testing (Protractor, WebdriverIO), or similar
- Experience with Agile development practices
- Ability to participate in product code reviews
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Gherkin language, like Cucumber, JBehave, or SpecFlow
- Understanding of CI/CD practices and Lean DevOps methodologies
- Familiarity with Bamboo and Git
- Financial/Trading services industry interest is a plus
