Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering, SDET
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency20 hours ago
Base Salary
$164k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and extend enterprise automation frameworks across frontend, API, backend, database, and multi-tier testing layers.
- Create and execute functional, integration, regression, acceptance, performance, and load test plans, including cross-browser UI and API integration testing.
- Analyze and communicate test results, track defects, estimate testing efforts, and identify quality tasks during team sprint cycles.
- Architect reusable component and Cucumber step-definition libraries and establish repeatable, scalable test execution patterns.
- Validate microservices communication, payloads, fault tolerance, database transactions, data pipelines, message queues, and SQL and NoSQL systems.
- Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines with stage-gated quality controls, parallel execution, and environment-specific deployment strategies.
- Migrate manual and script-based testing to Cucumber or Karate BDD and establish Gherkin libraries, review workflows, and scenario design standards.
- Plan and manage test environments and test data and recommend improvements to acceptance testing procedures and processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field; a three- or four-year bachelor’s degree is accepted.
- At least five years of experience as a software developer in test, quality assurance lead, or a related role.
- Experience architecting automation frameworks with Selenium, RestAssured, PostgreSQL, Cucumber, and TestNG.
- Experience implementing functional, integration, and regression testing across UI, API, backend, database, data pipeline, and message queue layers.
- Experience architecting CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes and containerizing test execution environments.
- Experience migrating testing to Cucumber or Karate BDD frameworks and creating shared Gherkin feature libraries.
- Experience with test strategy, requirements analysis for testability, risk and mitigation planning, configuration management planning, and detailed test planning.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with up to two days per week of remote work, also described as up to 40% telecommuting.
- Standard benefits package including tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment assistance, a technology stipend, generous paid time off, parental leave, 401(k) employer match, and medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Collaborative and supportive work environment focused on work-life balance and employee wellness.