Senior QA Engineer

Job Description:

The Role

Fidelity Investments has an opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer (QA Consultant) role.  You will be joining the Workplace Investing (WI) Data Engineering Quality Engineering team and will help with guiding your squad or squads in all things related to the quality of their code. We are looking for an innovator with passion for teamwork and collaboration and has a creative development approach.

QA Consultants are typically assigned to multiple projects, ranging from moderate to high complexity, with responsibilities including technical mentoring and leading other team resources.  The role will also include hands-on participation in testing and automation activities, as necessary.  

Job Responsibilities

• Represent Quality Engineering as point of contact for product area and Squad leaders.
• Develop test strategies for test data, test coverage and automation solutions.
• Drive escalation, metrics and status communication.
• Partner closely with Chapter Team Lead Resource Managers to identify resource gaps, training needs, and to provide feedback.
• Participate in squad level sprint activities and supports delivery of test and automation solutions.
• Provides technical leadership and mentoring to quality engineers.
• Promote WI Quality Engineering Best Practices, Standards and Processes. 
• Collaborates with developers and business analysts to resolve issues or questions pertaining to test creation or execution.
• Facilitate alignment to automation standards and support overall DevOps Integration.
• Identify, communicate, and proactively lead project risks as well those of our supporting teams (as applicable).
• Partner with development teams and promote understanding of quality engineering and its role in the project lifecycle.
• Support the overall team’s quality objectives and process improvement initiatives.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Test & Automation Tools: Jira, X-ray, Cucumber, Selenium
• Programming Languages: Java, Python
• API Tools: RestAssured, Postman, SOAPUI, RestAssured
• DevOPS Tools: Jenkins, Git repositories
• Databases: Oracle, Snowflake, POSTGRES, SQL-SERVER
• Monitoring Tools: Splunk logs, Datadog logs
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or closely related).
• 10+ years of experience in software development and test.
• Experience testing APIs using RestAssured, and Karate.
• Understanding and/or experience with DevOps/Pipelines.
• Certifications in AWS or similar cloud platforms are a plus.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills needed for agile team.

The Team

Fidelity’s market-leading Workplace Investing business is the leading provider of retirement, investments and benefits solutions for more than 23,000 companies and over 34 million of their employees. The WI Strategy & Planning team is responsible for crafting the long-term strategy of WI, as well as leading multi-year and annual planning, investment prioritization, and business reporting and management routines for the division. We partner closely with key leaders and functions across WI and the enterprise, including the Business Domains, Communications, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance and Technology.

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Fidelity’s working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).