Test Automation Developer (API/Backend)
Description
*Relocation assistance is not provided and this is not a remote position. FirstBank does not sponsor work visas.
Salary Range
$85-115k/yr
Founded in 1963, FirstBank maintains more than $20 billion in assets and operates over 110 branch locations across Colorado, Arizona and California. Its growth can be attributed to one simple philosophy: do right by customers, communities and employees, which is at the center of the company’s “banking for good” mantra. FirstBank believes that a company is nothing without the people that comprise it, and prides itself in hiring and training a diverse and talented group. By joining the FirstBank team you will experience its great team culture with ample opportunity for growth. There’s an opportunity for everyone with positions all across the company, from Teller and Call Center to Technology and Lending. Apply today to learn more and join the team!
FirstBank is a leader in banking innovations, employee satisfaction, and customer service. Our Technology Department focuses on quality and innovation to continuously deliver value in an Agile environment to business units across the company. To help these efforts, we are seeking a talented Test Automation Developer with expertise and a passion in building test frameworks for distributed systems on the API. You are best suited for this role if you are innovative, possess great problem solving and analytical skills.
The Test Automation Developer will provide support in the development and maintenance of automation needs across FirstBank applications products, projects, and services. In this role, you will collaborate with the development, infrastructure, database administrators and quality assurance teams to improve the continuous integration and delivery processes through automation, tools, and process. The Test Automation Developer will be an integral part of one of our Software Delivery Teams, supporting the evaluation and implementation of the process changes and tools to be utilized.
What you will do:
- Test complex API software efforts from analysis through implementation
- Design, automate, and maintain test scripts related to various sized efforts
- Perform maintenance to, and debug, existing scripts
- Drive Risk-Based Testing conversations between business sponsors and developers
- Assume a lead role in testing, analysis, and communication of results
- Help drive Behavior Driven Development (BDD); use BDD to reconcile business and technical requirements
- Collaborate with Delivery Teams and Testing Centers of Excellence to create and evolve policies and best practices
- Ensure best practices and standards are followed; maintain and oversee proper documentation
- Make suggestions for improving the development and testing process
- Mentor and train new and existing staff
- Work under general supervision; communicate with management on the status of tasks and projects and initiate requests to escalate problems, when needed
- Perform other duties and projects as assigned
- Understand and comply with all provisions of the Safety in the Workplace policy
Minimum Requirements:
- Typically requires a bachelor's degree in related field and a minimum of 2 years of related experience. A combination of post-high school education, job related certification and related experience equivalent to 5 years may be considered in lieu of minimum requirements
Preferred Requirements:
- Foundation and/or Advanced level Software Testing Certification; (i.e. ISTQB)
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Experience with all forms of testing: Functional, System, Integration, Regression, Exploratory, Negative, Smoke
- Experience with object oriented programming languages such as Java, C#, or related languages/technologies
- Experience testing and automating REST and/or SOAP Services
- Experience with TestNG, Unified Functional Tester (UFT), or other related testing tools
- Experience with Eclipse and/or Visual Studio
- Experience with source repositories, such as GitHub
- Experience with SQL and general knowledge of RDBMS concepts
- Knowledge of CI/CD concepts
- Strong understanding of the difference and purpose of both GUI and API testing
- Knowledge of industry standards and trends
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Strong technical and operational problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Working knowledge of information security concepts and techniques, as they apply to enterprise operating systems and applications
- Strong ability to work in a team oriented environment
- Ability to lead initiatives and manage projects with minimal guidance
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements:
Work is performed in an office environment with moderate noise levels and light to heavy traffic. An individual in this position:
- Frequently remains stationary throughout a typical business day
- Frequently operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer
- Occasionally moves about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, and other rooms
- Occasionally positions self to access drawers and shelves of various heights
- Frequently reaches for and handles paperwork and files
- Constantly communicates with customers, coworkers, and management in-person and on the phone
- Must be able to exchange accurate information
Statement of Benefits
FirstBank offers a suite of benefits that support our employees’ professional, financial, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. Benefits currently offered with our positions include: Paid Time Off/paid leave programs, 401K/Employee Stock Ownership, United Healthcare medical, MetLife dental, VSP vision, Employee tuition reimbursement, Volunteer Time Off, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Group Life Insurance/AD&D
FirstBank is an EOE/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other applicable status protected by state or local law. FirstBank does not permit pay inequities. Anyone who believes they have been subject to pay inequity should immediately report their concerns to the Human Resource Department.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)