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Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for testing and delivering complex software requirements to accomplish business outcomes, ensuring the testing strategy and processes are well-defined and continuously improved. Key responsibilities include establishing a test and automation strategy, creating common test frameworks, defining and managing test processes including test data generation, defect management and reporting. Job expectations include understanding and implementing internal/external mandate, ensuring compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments, and manages traceability.

Job Profile Summary:

The automation engineer will be responsible for designing and developing the testing tools required to test complex software requirements within Bank of America's Global Risk and Regulatory Technology team. The DNA ARC team is responsible for building systems that help the Bank leverage the power of large data sets for a wide variety of uses cases and users including front office execution services consultants, sales traders, data scientists as well as regulatory and supervisory reporting requirements.

The role involves working with large volumes of data generated at very high velocity, typically billions of messages a day with peaks of several thousands of messages per second.

Responsibilities:

• Creates and optimizes test processes including defect management and reporting
• Creates and optimizes test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools
• Leads test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams
• Creates a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.)
• Ensures alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders
• Manages test execution and resolves, communicates or escalates any issues that may result in test plan variance
• Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments
• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements.
• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience coding in Java/Python/Groovy
• Strong knowledge in RDBMS and ability to write complex SQL queries.
• Experience with Test Management tools, JIRA and able to conduct triage sessions.
• Good understanding of the functional testing process, scenarios and what to expect from a testing sequence.
• Strong Problem Identifying and solving ability.
• Ability to understand and maintain existing automated scripts based on the specifications.

Desired Qualifications:

• Resource should have strong verbal and written communication skills as well as a demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced and collaborative environment.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol
• Regulatory-Reporting requirements and regulations
• Financial Knowledge as a plus

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Influence
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering
• Automation
• Collaboration
• Solution Delivery Process
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Agile Practices
• Application Development
• Architecture
• DevOps Practices
• User Experience Design

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor Degree or equivalent professional experience

Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park (NY1540)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$102,700.00 - $142,200.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.