Automation QA Engineer – ETL, Data & Streaming

Bank of America; Newark (DE); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking an automation-focused software engineer for testing and delivery of complex data-intensive applications. You will design test strategies, frame automation, and ensure data integrity across high-volume environments.

The role bridges Development and Quality Engineering, owning validation across ETL, mainframe, and streaming platforms, and driving shift-left quality within the delivery lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applicable software engineering, test automation, data engineering, or quality engineering experience.
• Experience developing and supporting ETL/DataStage solutions, real-time data replication platforms, and large-scale data integration processes, with a strong focus on automation and quality engineering.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks or suites for Unit, Feature, Integrated, regression and data validation testing.
• Ability to own automated source-to-target validation, transformation accuracy, data integrity, reconciliation, and consistency across high-volume replication and streaming platforms.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD practices and the integration of automated tests, quality gates, and results reporting into delivery pipelines.
• Hands-on engineering expertise across Mainframe, DataStage, IIDR/CDC, and Kafka-based data pipelines, including development, troubleshooting, automated testing, and validation.
• Strong analytical, coding, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• ETL, Kafka, Mainframe, IIDR, Raft, Java, Co-Pilot, Octane, Litmus

Responsibilities

• Creates and optimizes test processes including defect management and reporting
• Creates and optimizes test automation frameworks and use of test automation tools
• Leads test planning for complex features that span across the platform or multiple teams
• Creates a test automation strategy across the application stack (UI, API, and Backend, etc.)
• Ensures alignment and sign off for test cases from business and other stakeholders
• Manages test execution and resolves, communicates or escalates any issues that may result in test plan variance
• Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Business Acumen

Influence

Technical Strategy Development

Test Engineering

Automation

Collaboration

Solution Delivery Process

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Agile Practices

Application Development

Architecture

DevOps Practices

User Experience Design

Tools

DataStage

IIDR/CDC

Kafka

Mainframe

Java

Co-Pilot

Octane

Litmus

Raft

Python

SQL

UFT

Para Soft

GitHub

Bit-Bucket

Job description

Bank of America is seeking an automation-focused software engineer for testing and delivery of complex data-intensive applications. You will design test strategies, frame automation, and ensure data integrity across high-volume environments.

The role bridges Development and Quality Engineering, owning validation across ETL, mainframe, and streaming platforms, and driving shift-left quality within the delivery lifecycle.