CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of BostonFederal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a people-focused 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.The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow Service. This service enables financial institutions to provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.Candidates that live near one of our Reserve Bank locations will be provided some work from home flexibility. Rules for hybrid work arrangements differs from Bank to Bank and should be discussed during the interview process.As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you will be responsible for creating and implementing a strategy for quality coordination and testing as well as suggesting solutions to identified quality problems You’ll be essential to the quality and performance of the FedNow Service, and drive full automation of testing and quality You’ll work with Agile Engineering teams on new and exciting cloud solutionsTest products and identifying deficiencies, filing bugs for engineering teams.Drive comprehensive test automation across the product, with the goal of 100% test automation.Identify gaps in test coverage, and create test cases and scripts to automate them.Suggest solutions to identified product problems.Contribute to the planning, creation and management of the overall Quality Planning strategy.Identify quality assurance process bottleneck and suggest actions for improvement Oversee continuous improvement projects Collect quality data Identify key KPIs for product qualityPrepare and present reports and metrics to Senior ManagementCollaborates with analysts as part of an integrated Agile team to refine requirements into testable and well understood test cases to drive full automation of functional and non-functional business requirements testing.Demonstrates skill dexterity; seeking to continuously adapt and employ new technical skills alongside proven staplesEnsures that the quality of software developed, maintained and enhanced in-house and installed into production is sufficient to prevent the occurrence of catastrophic defects that cause the customer significant problems, missed deadlines, or interruption to the production environmentEnsure compliance with Fed policies, procedures and standardsProvides primary or backup production support for applications and components, including but not limited to timely resolution to production problems and processing issuesPerform other duties as assigned.Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or experience3+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer3+ years of experience with a variety of different testing techniques such as UI Testing, Automated Testing, Test Driven Development Strategies and othersFamiliarity with test data management techniques and practices, data generation/obfuscation, stubbing, mocking, “black box” and “white box” testing.Experience with CI/CD build tools, and DevOps processesExperience testing rigorous non-functional requirements for high performance, high volume, highly available (24/7/365) environmentsExperience with quality in integrated Agile software engineering teams (Scrum, Kanban, Lean etc)Solid expertise in Java and proficient knowledge of programming languages (JavaScript, XML, JSON, Python a bonus)Expertise in test automation and tooling, such as Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium etc.Proficient knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows)Proficient knowledge of database testing Ideally, you’ll have experience with AWS services, and automated testing of AWS-deployed distributed systems.Demonstrates independent critical thinking and decision-making abilitiesDemonstrates excellent written and oral communication abilitiesExperience with CI/CD Pipelines, and DevSecOpsA sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s successYou’ll be a Team playerGood time-management skillsGreat interpersonal and communication skillThe Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position. Depending upon the sensitivity of the position, this phase may include, and is not limited to, work and residency eligibility verification, and personal interviews with the candidate, references, and prior employers.All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years.Full Time / Part TimeFull timeRegular / TemporaryRegularJob Exempt (Yes / No)YesJob CategoryWork ShiftFirst (United States of America)The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.Privacy Notice (https://www.kansascityfed.org/documents/7797/WorkdayPrivacyNotice.pdf)OUR BANK has one of the most recognizable brands around the world. The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States—one of the world's most influential, trusted and prestigious financial organizations. The Federal Reserve is charged with the important mission of promoting a strong economy and a stable financial system and fulfills this responsibility by formulating national monetary policy, supervising and regulating banks and bank holding companies, and providing financial services for banks and the U.S. government.OUR PEOPLE are diverse in background and ideas, which allows for ongoing creativity and innovation. Ultimately, they are the ones who push our high-performance, exchange-driven culture forward.Why Our People Choose Us:Our reputation precedes usThere will always be room for personal growthOur people are firstYou’ll find the right balanceYour responsibilities will be meaningfulWe hope that you will be our future colleague.
