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American Express Senior Quality Engineer, Cross Platform Delivery in Phoenix, Arizona
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As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us a crucial part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside hard-working engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve ambitious problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.
The American Express International Card and Risk Services Technology - Cross Platform Delivery team is responsible for delivery of critical strategic initiatives for the international businesses.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Quality Engineer and team leader with test strategy, management and automation experience to join our team in Phoenix. Our Quality Engineers understand that “good enough” is never enough. They strive for the highest levels of quality and the most efficient methods to achieve it. They are experts in testing strategies, tooling, and execution.
This position suits someone who can start fast, form working relationships quickly and make valuable contributions by introducing best test practices and techniques learned elsewhere.
As an End-to-End Quality Test Manager, you will:
Develop Test Strategies, Plans and Execution Artifacts with internal and external partners
Manage E2E testing & guide QAs for user journey testing across various platforms for large & sophisticated projects
Build and maximise a deep understanding of the products and technology assets being tested to ensure optimal test coverage
Lead a team of test managers to build a high performing team, bring consistency to approaches and artifacts, and implement efficiently across initiatives
Partner with application architects and environment operations on test infrastructure design
Work with software, infrastructure, and QA engineers to deliver target code quality
Work with Product and Quality assurance team to review E2E test scenarios, validate test results and maintain documentation
Design quality metrics to be gathered, collated and reported to management. Identify patterns and opportunities from the metrics to drive innovation and improvement
Provide guidance to engineering teams including driving improvements in automation and testing in a Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment
Find opportunities to adopt innovative testing technologies and techniques
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical subject area, or equivalent work experience preferred; advanced degree preferred
Significant experience and proven skills in quality and test engineering in the Financial industry specifically the Credit Card Domain with ability to create test data, write test cases, running functional, automated, and/or performance tests, and leading defect resolution
Solid experience in Test Driven Development (TDD), unit testing, functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, GUI testing, web service testing, and browser compatibility testing
Experience with platform delivery methodology (Agile, incl Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD))
Core knowledge of one of the following tools is required: HP Quality Center, Selenium; Unified Functional Test (UFT aka QTP), orchestrators such as XL Release; Puppet or Chef; IBM Rational including Urban Code
Experience working with Quality scanning tools, able to baseline and measure ongoing quality metrics, and display via Dashboards and to interpret the data to drive the changes needed
Hands on experience in automation testing & debugging using tools like POSTMAN, SOAP UI, REST Assured, etc.
Experience in RDBMS and NoSQL Databases
Strong experience working, at minimum, one of the following areas : Mainframe, distributed, mobile development, programming in a number of languages (i.e. Cobol, Java, .Net, etc)
Experienced knowledge of continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment(CD) and continuous testing (CT) capabilities, including tools such as Jenkins, ARA, Rally and/or JIRA, version control such as GIT or SVN and service virtualization
Test certifications - QAI, ASQ, IIST, ISEB, ISTQB - are a plus
Leadership skills, professional presence, extremely strong communication skills and ability to influence without direct authority
Qualifications
Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
Career development and training opportunities
For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .
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American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.
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Job: Technologies
Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 25003105