Principal Software Engineer in Test - 2063211

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Westlake, TX
Posted on: October 5, 2022

Job Description:

Designs, develops, and implements software quality plans for mainframe, Cloud-based, and distributed applications in an Agile development environment. Designs, builds, executes, and delivers test artifacts and quality engineering practices. Designs and develops software application components, using Java, Cobol, JavaScript, .Net, C++, Python, Cucumber, and Object Oriented Programing. Assures that projects meet quality standards by providing technical guidance in planning, designing, and test execution of product quality within quality projects.

Primary Responsibilities:

Performs code and formal reviews of application designs, business, and functional requirements.

Reviews reports on software problems.

Coordinates and manages software quality engineering deliverables.

Applies software development lifecycle processes in Agile methodologies -- Kanban and Scrum.

Defines and implements quality process improvements focused on defect prevention.

Ensures test environment reflects business requirements for test execution.

Assists in development of in-house test tools.

Develops technical designs for test automation at the application level.

Executes manual and/or automated test scripts for most complex projects.

Coordinates test schedules, work assignments, and resource plans.

Ensures progress of all test activities against plan.

Ensures execution of project regression test tasks.

Mentors junior team members and provides technical guidance.

Establishes project plans for projects of moderate scope.

Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget.

Maintains status of project and monitors activities of team members.

Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues.

Provides technical leadership on analysis, design, coding, testing, problem resolution, and planning.

Works directly with the user community for project definition.

Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives.

Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.

Recommends strategies and methods to improve test plans and test processes.

Analyzes and reports overall test status and results.

Identifies and resolves test issues.

Defines and coordinates regression tests, and production verification and validation for future projects.

Perform risk analysis at project management level.

Education and Experience:

Bachelors degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or five (5) years of experience performing software quality assurance engineering, using mainframe and Cloud based architecture in a Defined Contributions (DC) financial services environment.

Or, alternatively, Masters degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or three (3) years of experience performing software quality assurance engineering, using mainframe and Cloud based architecture in a Defined Contributions (DC) financial services environment.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

Demonstrated Expertise (DE) analyzing and testing Defined Contributions (DC) recordkeeping application functionality and features -- application integration points (401k recordkeeping and reporting applications) -- using IBM Mainframe and JIRA; and validating DC transaction types -- contributions, distributions, loans, managed accounts, participant setup, and end-to-end functional, non-functional, and regression testing, using IBM Mainframe and JIRA.

DE developing Agile quality engineering plans for DC products in mainframe, Spring based Web application frameworks, using IBM Mainframe and Cloud services; and performing business and systems requirements analysis at the component and integration level -- translating functional requirements for end-to-end testing, test plans and cases, design and documentation of results, and defect tracking and reporting -- using Advanced Query Tool (AQT), Structured Query Language (SQL), JIRA, and Xray (for dashboards).

DE in DC recordkeeping software reinvention projects -- transforming systems from mainframe legacy platforms to Cloud architecture -- using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure services; performing quality assurance engineering using Cloud services -- Data, Compute, Analytics, DevOps, Java, and JavaScript; and performing data engineering, using IBM DB2, Oracle, Azure SQL Server, Azure Data Factory (ADF), and Extract Transform Load (ETL) technologies.

DE designing, developing, implementing, and managing software automation frameworks for DC recordkeeping applications in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and Web application and procedural methodologies, using Java, JavaScript, JSON, Cucumber, JIRA, Git, and Jenkins.

For full job details and to apply, please visit https://jobs.fidelity.com/ and search for job number: 2063211.

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