FRFS Automation Engineer
FRFS Automation Engineer
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Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas CityWhen you join the Federal Reservethe nations central bankyoull play a key role collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic financial and payments systems. We dedicate more than $1 billion to technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy and were building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.Bring your passion and expertise and well provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growthalong with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health wealth and life.
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine Solutions Fedwire National Settlement Service (NSS) FedCash FedACH (Automated Clearing House) Check Services and the FedNow Service. In 2020 we undertook a strategic effort to transform FRFS from a product and support office framework to a national enterprisefocused organization. The enterprise structure integrated the prior retail wholesale cash and customer relations product and support offices into a new organization which was further joined by the FedNow team in early 2024. Our North Star strategy with the new structure is to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed resilience and choice in meeting the payments needs of financial institutions across the United States. 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.
Key Activities:
Participate in the detailed technical design of applications with the solution architects
Develop & test functions and application components in Java on application server platform leveraging messaging middleware and RDB backend frameworks
Integrate written components with frameworks and other common components
Develop documentation artifacts
Support testing (Unit Functional Performance Access controls)
Work closely with the automation teach lead and architect to implement the strategy and design into automated testing tools/scripts.
Devise and influence test strategies for mission critical systems and implement comprehensive test coverage for changes that require testing efforts to span across multiple products and squads.
Understand complex business and functional requirements and work with quality engineers in implementing technical test cases that thoroughly test the tech stack and meet the product requirements.
Promote innovation and evolution of quality engineering techniques test automation technologies and ensure pervasive quality in product development.
Collaborate with other members of a crossdisciplinary team operating within the Scrum framework to consistently deliver Product improvements according to the guidelines
Drive Agile adoption and find opportunities for gaining efficiencies in quality practices thereby reducing endtoend testing cycle times for mission critical applications.
What we are looking for:
As amemberof the Application Automation Development staff the candidate would participate in the detailed design and implementation of automation frameworks and test cases utilizing Java /Selenium/API technologies for mission critical Payments products. The position is for an advanced developer who has very strong experience developing and implementing automation for applications designed with J2EE architecture. The candidate will be responsible for building automation of applications based on the established FRB system architecture and will be involved in the entire delivery life cycle as part of an Agile SCRUM team. The candidate will work on planning and development of critical Fedwire applications including Securities Funds NSS and Settlement systems
Qualifications:
Typically requires at least 6 years of relevant work experience in Java/J2EE distributed application Development. Includes strong experience with various J2EE components and services
Preference of 7 years of working experience with JAVA J2EE JavaScript JDBC HTML.
35 years working with Spring framework (including Spring integration and Spring Batch and good understanding of AOP concepts.
Bachelors degree in software engineering computer science/technology business administration or a closely related field from an accredited college or university or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.
Strong analysis and design skills including requirements analysis OO design patterns
General knowledge of open source frameworks
Keen understanding of performance issues and end to end debugging capabilities.
Strong knowledge of SQL stored procedures (PL/SQL) and database fundamentals (Oracle).
Experience with Jenkins and Selenium Grid for continuous testing.
Experienced in reviewing and writing Unit Tests and collaborating with Developers and Business stakeholders
Solid understanding of and experience inBehavior Driven Development (BDD) Test Driven Development (TDD) defining enterprisewide standards for product quality
Solid comprehension training and experience in leveragingdynamic test environments cloud technologies test data management strategies and test infrastructure design
Experience with Applit and HP ALM tools is a plus.
Strong multi tasking and collaboration skills.
Strong verbal written and presentation skills.
Knowledge of Financial Services industry are a plus workingknowledge of cloud technologies is a plus
Additional Information:
Location(s):
Hybrid onsite requirement will be determined by hiring district
Remote eligibility will be determined by hiring district
Eligible districts for Hire: Kansas City MO Boston MA New York NY Philadelphia PA Cleveland OH Richmond VA Atlanta GA Chicago IL St. Louis MO Minneapolis MN Dallas TX San Francisco CA
Pay Range:
The selected candidates new job title and associated pay range will be determined by the employing District and will continue to be subject to the employing Districts people policies and practices (i.e. remote/hybrid work posture etc..
Screening Requirements: This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification criminal history credit history and reference checks.
Sponsorship: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
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