Digital Engineering Anchor (QA Testing)

Job Description

Job title: Digital Engineering Anchor (QA Testing)

Company: Navy Federal Credit Union

Job description: Job Description:As a QA Digital Engineering Anchor, you will serve as the hands-on technical lead. Providing technical leadership and guidance across the team by partnering with all agile teams to align project needs such as technical problem resolution, technical training and resolving capacity issues. You will also work with the QA team leads/team advocates to ensure technical processes and standards are universally understood and enforced, while promoting engagement across teams. Promote engagement and communication across teams. Use best practices and broad knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products and/or services. Works independently; receives minimal guidance.Additionally, you will assist with providing technical operational support input related to application analysis, code review, design, automation, and programming functions. Ensuring department objectives are met in operational stability, efficiency, automation enhancement, and metric development.Responsibilities:

• Responsible to drive technical results and goals across the team to promote quality testing.
• Serves as an advisor providing advice and counsel with engineering technical requirements to enhance the overall QA practice.
• Uses best practices and broad knowledge of internal and external business issues to improve QA testing approaches.
• Works with Digital leadership, as well as QA Team leads and advocate to ensure processes and standards are universally understood and enforced while promoting engagement across teams.
• Proactively accumulates and maintains knowledge of QA current and emerging/evolving technologies, concepts, and trends.
• Apply specific professional-level functional knowledge to solve problems requiring the identification of root cause and analysis of moderately complex issues.
• Assists to monitor manual/automated test cases and document results.
• Assists with designing, building, and maintaining effective test automation solutions which meet requirements and specifications (smoke, functional, regression, performance, integration, etc.).
• Assists with developing an end-to-end automation strategy in line with the strategic vision and product roadmap.
• Builds and maintains relationships with team members, management, and key stakeholders.
• Builds relationships with relevant teams across the wider organization to both support and shape future automation strategy and direction.
• Develops and maintains solution documentation.
• Ensures that approved changes are integrated into the existing test scripts and additional scripts are added as necessary, and updates are documented properly.
• Has the ability to coach and mentor colleagues with less experience.
• Identifies opportunities to effectively mitigate risk and improves performance and functionality.
• Improves the test frameworks, tools and technologies used to maintain a high-quality test.
• Monitors adherence to quality processes, reports issues, and makes recommendations to improve on technical gaps within the team.
• Partners with product ownership team, scrum master and leadership about team needs such as, capacity issues, training needs, while maintaining technical responsibilities.
• Prepares functional matrix for test areas assigned and performs a walkthrough with the appropriate project team members to ensure accurate/complete coverage of designated area.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application/solution problems.
• Provide overall leadership to large strategic projects or programs.
• Serve as strategic advisor to senior management.
• Conduct research and analysis; make recommendations.
• Build and maintain relationships with team members, management, key stakeholders and/or external contacts (vendors, etc.).
• Consistent communication of information to team.
• Use holistic knowledge of all products in the information technology ecosystem to plan how new systems will be built and integrated.
• Serve as an advisor providing advice and counsel on assignments concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements.
• Identify opportunities to effectively mitigate risk and improve performance and functionality.
• Provide forward thinking technical expertise in current and emerging technologies, trends and practices.
• Assist with reviewing candidates for technical roles.
• Proactively accumulate and maintain knowledge of current and merging/evolving technologies, concepts, and trends.
• Maintain technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc.
• Continual learning; keep up to date with trends in tech market.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Advanced experience Automation Testing.
• Advanced experience in Software Development Life Cycle Paradigms (Agile).
• Advanced experience in testing using tools and frameworks.
• Advanced experience leading test automation efforts.
• Advanced experience in Functional, Regression, Smoke, Webservices, Database, Integration and User Acceptance Testing.
• Advanced in code revision management, defect tracking & reporting.
• Advanced skill applying innovative approaches to solve technical design issues.
• Advanced skill in programming knowledge and a deep technical skill.
• Advanced skill in reviewing various project related documents.
• Advanced skill in systems analysis, workflow, or procedural analysis.
• Advanced skill in testing using the Agile methodologies and frameworks.
• Advanced skill influencing and guiding strategic thinking.
• Advanced skill troubleshooting and resolving technical problems.
• Advanced skill with leading the development of test scripts to automate web application and desktop applications.
• Advanced skills in writing, review and execution of test cases, test plan, test strategy, test report and troubleshooting.
• Advanced understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and role of QA .
• Advanced with cloud computing and QA’s role in CICD.
• Effective Decision Making (Competency).
• Experience assisting with building and leading teams of both development and testing.
• Possess strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities, excellent presentation and interpersonal skills, strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Quick learner and excellent team player, having ability to meet tight deadlines.
• Significant experience working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors.
• Effective Decision Making (Competency).
• Significant experience working with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors.
• Advanced knowledge of application development including determining, developing, testing, and implementing system requirements; designing, coding, debugging applications.
• Extensive experience leading, guiding and mentoring others.
• Requires knowledge and experience in own discipline; continuing acquisition of higher level knowledge and skills.
• Advanced skill troubleshooting and resolving technical problems.
• Advanced skill in systems analysis, workflow, or procedural analysis.
• Advanced skill applying innovative approaches to solve technical design issues.
• Advanced skill influencing and guiding strategic thinking.
• Advanced skill resolving conflicting requests and meeting changing requirements.
• Advanced skill designing and deploying new, upgraded and/or existing systems.
• Advanced organizational, planning and time management skills.
• Advanced database and presentation software skills.
• Advanced research, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Computer Science or other related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training or experience.

Desired Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience Automation Testing, Software Development Life Cycle Paradigms (Agile), testing using tools and frameworks, and leading test automation efforts.
• Advanced knowledge of banking/financial industry trends, products, and services.
• Advanced knowledge of Navy Federal products, services, programs, policies and procedures.
• Working knowledge of credit union operations/processes and procedures.
• Requires knowledge and experience in own discipline; continuing acquisition of higher level knowledge and skills.

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00AM – 4:30PMLocation: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180About Us:You have goals, dreams, hobbies, and things you’re passionate about-what’s important to you is important to us. We’re looking for people who not only want to do meaningful, challenging work, keep their skills sharp and move ahead, but who also take time for the things that matter to them-friends, family, and passions. And we’re looking for team members who are passionate about our mission-making a difference in military members’ and their families’ lives. Together, we can make it happen. Don’t take our word for it:

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Equal Employment Opportunity: Navy Federal values, celebrates, and enacts diversity in the workplace. Navy Federal takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities, disabled veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans. EOE/AA/M/F/Veteran/Disability EOE/AA/M/F/Veteran/DisabilityHybrid Workplace: Navy Federal Credit Union is a hybrid workplace, and details will be discussed during your interview process.Disclaimers: Navy Federal reserves the right to fill this role at a higher/lower grade level based on business need. An assessment may be required to compete for this position. Job postings are subject to close early or extend out longer than the anticipated closing date at the hiring team’s discretion based on qualified applicant volume. Navy Federal Credit Union assesses market data to establish salary ranges that enable us to remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range, based on your experience, location and market position.Bank Secrecy Act: Remains cognizant of and adheres to Navy Federal policies and procedures, and regulations pertaining to the Bank Secrecy Act.

Expected salary:

Location: Vienna, VA

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