Test Automation Developer
Job Details
Description
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 Test Automation Analyst to join the exciting Finxact team! This is an opportunity to join a Software Delivery Team aimed at building software to integrate with a new cloud-based Core as a Service. You’ll be responsible for driving the Test Automation strategy and implementation of the front-end and back-end services for this new strategic initiative.
The Test Automation Analyst is responsible for supporting and implementing the design, automation, and maintenance of test scripts to ensure automation supports testing initiatives and continuous integration. In this role, you will support existing automation frameworks and related best practices. The Analyst will document and perform manual testing, where applicable. While working closely within, and across teams, you will ensure quality standards are met, and performance improvements are made. To ensure consistency across development, test, and production environments, the Analyst will collaborate on the documentation of test cases, and test processes and procedures. In this role, you will have the chance to mentor and train new and existing staff, and provide group training on specific subject areas, as needed.
As a Denver Post Top Workplaces award winner eight years in a row (2012-2019), FirstBank provides many great benefits for being a part of our family. From competitive salaries, employer-contributed retirement and health plans, some reduced fee banking services, paid time off, employer paid basic life insurance, short-term and long term disability policies, to holiday parties and more, you will be appreciated and made to feel at home at FirstBank. FirstBank provides a high-paced work environment with different projects landing on your desk routinely. From building the back-end of new products, improving current products and designing internal systems, to managing our security systems, maintaining and improving infrastructure and much more, no week is the same. This is a challenging position that comes with great rewards. #DCE
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Test complex GUI and/or 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 reconcile business and technical requirements through use of current methods and practices
- 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 as assigned
- All required responsibilities from Associate Analyst
- Understand and comply with all provisions of the Safety in the Workplace policy
Supervisory Responsibilities
N/A
Minimum Qualifications of Position
- 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
- If a candidate does not meet the minimum job requirements, we may consider such candidate(s) for a lower career stage.
Preferred Qualifications of Position
- Foundation and/or Advanced level Software Testing Certification; (i.e. ISTQB)
Knowledge and Skills
- Experience with all forms of testing: Functional, System, Integration, Regression, Exploratory, Negative, Smoke
- Experience with scripting languages using Java, C#, VBScript, or related languages/technologies
- Experience testing and automating GUI, including desktop/mobile applications, browsers and/or REST and SOAP Services
- Experience with test management and test automation tools, or other related software 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
- 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
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)