**Your opportunity** At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test who is passionate about test automation and building quality world-class systems. This is an opportunity to work on a team with a passion for building solutions through automation, driven by innovation and commitment to lifelong learning. If you’re passionate about staying on top of new and emerging test and automation technologies, have a keen attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and a solid knowledge base, this could be the role for you! **What you’ll do:** + You will be the leading the test automation team or working independently on small projects and a liaison with the other development teams at Schwab, partnering closely with them to ensure on-time delivery and quality code is implemented. Your work will impact the success of the projects and the firm by ensuring a successful quality of an essential risk management system. + Coordinate with team members for testing activities, participating in requirements ambiguity, & Use Case / User Story Reviews, and conduct QA analysis & test support activities. Lead fellow engineers in writing effective tests and constantly challenge yourself to improve overall test coverage. + Set and communicate automation strategies and processes for web services, APIs, middleware, batch jobs, queues etc., evaluate and implement software test automation tools and tooling standards. + Build automation frameworks to increase reuse and reduce effort. Increase automation cycle execution run times and decrease manual analysis of results. + Be a leader in enabling teams to use TDD/BDD/ATDD using Gherkin and ensure the automation is constantly running by utilizing CI/CD strategies leveraging tools like Bamboo/GitHub + Define and execute both the project and release level test strategies, test plans and test cases/scripts which span across multiple, internal Dev/QA/Product Teams. Act as the escalation point for all testing related issues, provide the QA perspective, status reporting and escalate issues to responsible stakeholders. + Participate in technical governance and help negotiate overall product quality standards with development and business teams. **What you have** **Required Qualifications:** + Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field + 5+ years of strong, demonstrable experience working as software developer or SDET using Java programming language (Spring Boot) and advance features use of java 11. + Experience in developing or influencing the development of automated testing framework(s) for enterprise level functional and regression testing is preferable. + Experience testing in Spring batch, RabbitMQ, Kafka or other enterprise messaging platforms. + Experience in test-driven development (ATDD) or Behavior Driven Development (BDD) using Gherkin languages like Cucumber. + Expertise in database querying, data manipulation and population using SQL in SQL Server + Experience with REST API service test automation. + Experience in performance testing using tools like JMeter. + Experience with CI /CD tools like GitHub, Bamboo, Shell Scripting, Splunk is required. + Strong working knowledge of software development methodologies, including some extensive experience with Agile development processes. + Experience with the Atlassian set of tools for Agile project/code management (Bitbucket, Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence) + Experience mentoring junior level engineers a strong plus. **What’s in it for you** At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis. We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future: + 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan + Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions + Paid parental leave and family building benefits + Tuition reimbursement + Health, dental, and vision insurance What’s in it for you: At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis. We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future: 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions Paid parental leave and family building benefits Tuition reimbursement Health, dental, and vision insurance Schwab is an affirmative action employer, focused on employing and advancing in employment, qualified women, racial and ethnic minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities in the workplace. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodations in the application process, contact Human Resources at applicantaccessibility@schwab.com or call 800-275-1281.