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 FedLine Solutions FedNow Fedwire National Settlement Service (NSS) FedCash FedACH (Automated Clearing House) and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national enterprisefocused 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 realtime gross settlement (RTGS) platform with integrated clearing functionality called the FedNow 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 missioncritical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.

This internship will be primarily onsite 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 FedNow 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 cuttingedge 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 backend testing data validations API and so much more.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Partner with a mentor to understand the current code base setup your environments and get ready to participate

Collaborating 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

Participating in activities focused around the agile software development cycle

Designing developing and supporting test automation participating in test planning and bug triages

Contributing and collaborating on test frameworks environments tool selection and infrastructure

Identifying data requirements and generating and maintaining test data

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Curious about software quality engineering in a largescale environment

Familiarity with objectoriented programming concepts

Experience building meaningful software applications: in a class as a personal hobby as a job or as part of an open source project

You enjoy collaborating with others in a fastpaced environment

Good verbal and communication skills

Understanding of computer science fundamentals and product development life cycle

MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Pursuing Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Engineering or related field. Preferably a rising junior or senior

This position is part of the Banks Internship/ Coop Program which is offered to students who are currently enrolled in graduate and undergraduate studies. This Program identifies talented and qualified candidates who could potentially fill professional job openings in the Bank.

Position Contributions
Are you passionate about bringing vision to life and building great products Is your ideal work environment a place where you can collaborate across teams and with stakeholders across the organization while managing your product backlogIf so we have the job for you!As someone that lives at the intersection of development design and business while constantly anchoring on the needs of customers and providing the highest quality product you will collaborate with technologists business experts and other stakeholders to bring new FedNow functionality to market.


What will be expected of you
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 managements overall vision and strategy for the product
Solve product related problems make decisions complete tradeoff 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 FedNow service
Surface and track crossfunctional 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 user stories to ensure product quality
Provide and/or assist team with iteration and feature demos for stakeholders
Collaborate with crossfunctional teams (strategy business integration industry engagement technology operations etc. throughout the lifecycle of the product strategy and delivery processes
Communicate and report productrelated issues and status updates in a timely manner to various levels of stakeholders such as SMEs and executive leadership as needed
Work closely with Scrum Master to keep pulse on team morale and iteration progress so that team is functioning at peak performance
Perform other duties as assigned or requested


Expertise you would bring

Experience with the SAFe Agile methodology
Experience working as a Product Owner (minimum 3 years; certification preferred)
Experience working with payments systems (preferred)

Experience managing both business and technology features and stories (preferred)
Experience working with agile software tools such as Octane (preferred) or Jira
Experience working with geographically dispersed agile development teams
Experience working with crossfunctional teams to deliver on a common goal
Eagerness to contribute to a teamoriented environment with active listening and strong interpersonal skills

Demonstrable problemsolving resourcefulness creativity and a willingness to bring fresh ideas

Effective verbal and written communications skills including presentation capabilities

Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and/or projects in a fastpaced environment

Selfstarter who is curiousminded and comfortable asking questions

Strong timemanagement and project management skills

Ability to manage multiple assignments in parallel including analytical assignments with strong attention to detail in addition to daytoday product owner responsibilities
Comfortable working in a fastpaced environment
Microsoft Office (Excel PowerPoint Word Outlook Teams etc.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race color religion national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity age genetic information disability or military service.

All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.

For this job any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a twophase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening) reference checks and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.

The second phase which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank is an additional riskbased security screening determined by the risk rating of the position. Depending upon the sensitivity of the position this phase may include and is not limited to work and residency eligibility verification and personal interviews with the candidate references and prior employers.

All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three 3 years.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties responsibilities or skills associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.

As a condition of employment all Federal Reserve Bank of Boston employees must comply with the Banks ethics rules which generally prohibit employees their spouses/domestic partners and minor children from owning financial interests such as stocks or bonds from banks savings associations and systemically important financial institutions or their affiliates such as bank holding companies or savings and loan holding companies. If you your spouse or domestic partner or your minor child own such assets and would be unwilling or unable to divest them if you were to accept a job offer you should raise this issue with our recruitment team. Applicants should review the Banks Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Temporary

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

No

Job Category

Internship Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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