Software Developer Engineer Test (Digital Transformation)

Overview

Ready to make a real impact on the future of finance? A Fortune 500 financial services firm is partnering with Aquent to find a skilled engineer to help revolutionize their digital client experience. As a key member of the Digital Services team, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation, designing and developing cutting-edge digital strategies, offers, and experiences that will shape how clients interact with the firm. This is your chance to be a driving force in a major digital transformation, improving the client journey for account opening and onboarding. If you’re passionate about creating seamless, client-centric experiences and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, this could be your next big career move.
This role offers a unique opportunity to transform the way a leading financial institution does business. You will be a key player in improving time to market, building integrated client-centric experiences, and ensuring project success through cross-functional collaboration. This role will allow you to contribute your technical expertise to define the digital strategy of the firm, working closely with other talented technologists to create impactful solutions.
What You’ll Do:

• Assess risk for business/customer impact
• Champion and lead test automation throughout the software delivery lifecycle
• Drive continuous integration and deployment strategies using a DevOps philosophy with the Atlassian stack
• Set up and maintain test environments
• Define and communicate automation strategies and processes for web services, APIs, middleware, and UI
• Evaluate and implement software test automation tools and standards
• Build automation frameworks to maximize reuse and minimize effort
• Optimize automation cycle execution times and reduce manual analysis
• Ensure automation remains current, flexible, and compatible with a continuous integration/deployment framework
• Develop methods for creating automation test data and data refresh capabilities
• Participate in code reviews and collaborate with engineers to ensure comprehensive test coverage
• Assist developers with robust unit/component/commit/build and deploy/CI/CD test automation
• Recommend automated reports and metrics to measure automation success and identify areas for improvement
• Educate and influence team members at all levels on automation best practices
• Collaborate with automation experts to plan, design, manage, report, and prioritize automation solutions
• Implement and lead Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment strategies
• Maintain automation development tools, including source control, test management, and release systems
• Influence, develop, and execute QA processes and testing best practices
• Utilize TDD/BDD/ATDD with Gherkin/Ruby/Cucumber
• Understand automation tools and their ROI
• Continuously streamline CI/CD pipeline and processes to reduce delivery lead time

Must-Haves:

• 6-10 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts
• Prior technical lead experience (mentoring, code review, design support)
• Strong proficiency in WebDriverIO and JavaScript or TypeScript
• Hands-on coding experience in Ruby, Java, C#, or another object-oriented language
• Experience with Selenium WebDriver
• Experience with Agile Development Practices
• Understanding of exploratory testing practices
• Knowledge of industry-standard bug logging and test case management tools (e.g., JIRA/MTM, Zephyr/HPQ)

Nice-to-Haves:

• Hands-on experience with web services virtualization
• Ability to perform code reviews
• Experience with scoping, sizing, and managing multiple projects
• Proven ability to lead a risk-based approach to software testing
• Experience driving innovative testing solutions within a complex enterprise platform
• Experience with ATDD using Gherkin language (Cucumber, JBehave, SpecFlow)
• Understanding of CI/CD practices and lean methodologies
• Experience with Jenkins/Bamboo/GIT

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $62.10 to $69 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.