Federal Reserve Financial Services Lead Software Quality Analyst

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine Solutions Fedwire Funds and Securities the National Settlement Service (NSS) FedCash1 FedACH Check Services and the FedNow Service. FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to operations technology product and industry engagement enterprise services and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the FedNow instant payment service. Our strategy defines our future direction seeking 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 Enterprise structure we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

We seek leaders to set the vision strategy values and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic actionoriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity agility accountability and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a peoplefocused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

We are a dynamic environment that requires days in the office. In office requirements as amended from time to time are an essential function of the position

District Employment and Dual Citizenship:
As a Federal Reserve System National Business Line it is standard practice to post FRFS positions in all twelve Districts to provide transparency and equitable opportunities for all FRS employees to apply. Internal Candidate(s) selected for this position will remain employed by their current employing District and serve as an employee of FRFS. 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.).

The FRFS business line is seeking a Lead Software Quality Engineer to drive end to end quality through close collaboration developers product owners and other key stakeholders to deliver highquality software products. This role requires strong ownership to define implement and champion quality practices that ensure highimpact delivery.

Key Activities

• Lead and coach a small team of Quality Engineers

• Analyzes designs tests and delivers technology solutions for business areas and implements executes comprehensive software quality assurance strategies.

• Develop maintain and execute automated test scripts

• Develop maintain and execute manual test scripts

• Assist in building CI/CD pipeline to execute test scripts in schedule

• Working across teams to validate end to end flows.

• Documents tracks and resolve software defects or issues in collaboration with the product delivery team.

• Ensures quality is built into the software solution throughout the software development lifecycle by performing peer reviews and leveraging relevant quality assurance processes and technologies.

• Develops and communicates software quality measures that report the reliability compliance/accessibility performance and security of the software products and services developed.

• Works closely with delivery partners to understand and align software quality assurance services with product delivery approach and schedule.

Required Qualifications

• Typically requires at least 10 years of relevant experience.

• Experience working as a Quality Engineer Lead for at least 5 years.

• 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.

• Experience in test automation tools like Cypress and Selenium

• Experience in JavaScript/Typescript and Java

• Experience working with a cloud provider like AWS.

• Experience in UI and API automation in Web Applications.

• Broad indepth understanding and experience with the quality assurance and testing discipline. Performs most work independently with limited supervision and direction.

• May consult with management or senior staff in decision making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Testing skills and experience with agile cloudbased delivery in close alignment with the application development team.

• Experience with BehaviorDriven Development (BDD).

• Demonstrate growth mindset and learning agility.

• Excellent problemsolving skills strong written and verbal communication and ability to effectively balance constraints and priorities to ensure team commitments are met.

• Strong interpersonal skills seek to understand different perspectives; demonstrate openness and respect for diverse views help build and maintain a healthy team dynamic.

• Strong initiative and teamwork.

• Providing manual and automated testing services to assure the quality of strategic and high priority applications.

• Strong understanding of test automation best practices and can architect develop and debug medium to complex level automation scripts.

• Understanding of the software development process and major technology terms.

• Experience working in a highlevel collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality.

• Salesforce knowledge.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in related computer technology or 10 years equivalent experience

Experience:

• Typically requires 10 Years

Our total rewards program offers benefits that are the best fit for you at every stage of your career:

• Comprehensive healthcare options (Medical Dental and Vision)

• 401K match and a fully funded pension plan

• Paid vacation and holidays flexible work environment

• Generously subsidized public transportation

• Annual tuition reimbursement

• Professional development programs training and conferences

• And more

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties performance standards or requirements efforts skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g. emergencies rush jobs change in workload or technological developments).

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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