Senior Automation Engineer II (State Street Bank And Trust Company; Burlington, MA): Will work as a senior member of a Scrum team to execute the overall quality plan for one of Charles River's products. Provide support and assistance to customer teams within Charles River. Specific duties of the position include: Work closely with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, business analysts, product specialists, developers and other project team members to assist in carrying software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team; Create comprehensive test automation scripts from business requirements and functional specifications documents for product features of moderate complexity; Execute manual and automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests; Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing; Interpret results of automation tests and document software defects in issue tracking system: proactively communicate issues with developers and other members; Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrim team’s QA methodology; Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product deliver; Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning , grooming, and retrospectives; Participate in testathon activities as needed; and Guide and mentor junior staff in proper creation of automated test scripts.

Minimum Requirements: Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or other technical course of study or business background; plus 3 years of experience in and occupation/title providing experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment. Alternatively, will accept a Bachelor’s Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or other technical course of study or business background; plus 5 years of experience in and occupation/title providing experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment.

Must possess the following: Demonstrated experience programming with Java, SQL and shell scripting languages including PowerShell and Bash; Demonstrated experience in preparing Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test cases and automated Test Scripts and execution of tests against web, native/ desktop applications, APIs and batch applications; Demonstrated experience on QA checks across the various layer of continuous delivery infrastructure using CICD tools like TeamCity; Demonstrated experience to building automation tests using TDD/BDD techniques with tools such as Cucumber and Playwright; Demonstrate experience in maintaining automation code and resources in configuration management tools like GitHub/Bitbucket; Demonstrate experience in container-based delivery using Docker; Demonstrated experience using messaging services like Kafka, Kafka connect, Kafka stream; Demonstrated experience in Financial services industry; Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans; and Proven effective written and verbal communication skills. (Unless otherwise indicated, State Street is seeking the stated ability in the skills listed above with no specific number of years or amount of experience required. All experience can be gained concurrently.)

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Salary Range:

$130,021 - $160,000 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.