Job Description:

Job Title: Quality Engineer
Corporate Title: Up to Vice President
Location: Dublin

Company Overview:
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Location Overview:
Our Central Park office in Leopardstown, boasts modern facilities based in Dublin’s premium business park. With an onsite gym and staff restaurant, all your daily needs are conveniently catered for. Travel options include the LUAS network and the Central Park shuttle service between Dublin City Centre and Central Park. We also provide tax saver tickets as part of our award-winning benefits package, which means getting to work has never been so easy.

The Team:
Due to an increase in our programme portfolio, we are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Dublin based Global Payments Orchestrator Technology team. We are a global team made up of a diverse range of people from varied backgrounds who each bring unique skillsets and perspectives. The team is responsible for delivering large programmes of change such as Global Payments Transformation, External Mandates like the Industry wide ISO20022 Migration.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare/Review Requirement Traceability Metrics in Test Management Tool
• Review Test Scope Coverage in Test Management tool
• Identify & engage for required type of testing (Sanity/Integration/Functional/Regression)
• Takes care of Functional & Regression Automation Approach (boost-up automation penetration)
• Takes care of Production Validation Approach (Penny Test, Component based Mock Test)
• Ensure test coverage for all functional & BAU requirements in Test Management tool.
• Classify and guide test cases for required type of test.
• Perform test case review, execution and approve the test cases in Test Management tool.
• Prepare Test execution plan and review with scrum teams, E2E, program and UAT Team
• Communicate daily/weekly status reports.
• Prepare Test closure report, review Test closure report, and ensure signoffs.
• Escalate for deviations (Planned Vs Actuals)
• Socialize overall test status for assigned teams to Test Manager and SLT.

What we are looking for:

• Experience in testing planning & execution, both manual and automated testing.
• Relevant IT experience (SDLC- Waterfall / Agile) preferably within a financial domain.
• Can guide test planning, usually at an agile team level, ensuring stories are well refined and contain clear acceptance criteria.
• Good knowledge of Java, Selenium, Automation frameworks like Cucumber BDD, Oracle SQL, API Testing & Automation, Test management tools like Qtest, Octane.
• Good experience in Payments/Finance domain with previous Middleware experiences.
• Several years’ experience as Test Lead and considerable experience within Quality Assurance.
• Good verbal and written communication skills (both to a technical and non-technical audience)
• Analytical Thinking, Attention to Detail, Team Leadership, Problem Solving, Innovative thinking, mentoring.

• Operating in a highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environment.

Skills that will help:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related Discipline
• ISTQB or equivalent international/industry standard certifications.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:
Ireland

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of Ireland’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:
Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, membership of the Traveller community, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, civil status, socio-economic background, family status or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.