Lead Test Engineer - Vice President

Deutsche Bank; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Health and wellbeing benefits

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

A leading global bank seeks an experienced Lead Test Engineer in Cary, NC. The role involves leading automated testing for a complex payments system, mentoring team members, and collaborating across the engineering organization. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in testing large-scale banking applications and familiarity with tools like Selenium and Jenkins. This position offers a hybrid work model and competitive compensation ranging from $125,000 to $185,000, along with a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in testing large-scale distributed bank/finance applications.
• Experience with unit, integration, end-to-end, load testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead automated testing efforts for a complex distributed system.
• Automate legacy manual testing efforts.
• Mentor other SDETs and Engineers on testing theory.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively within the team.

Skills

Automated testing

Mentoring

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Java

SQL

Cloud deployment

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Gatling

Selenium

JUnit

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

SonarQube

Job description

In short – an essential part of Deutsche Bank’s technology solution, developing applications for key Business areas.

Our Technologists drive Cloud, Cyber and Business technology strategy while transforming it within a robust, hands‑on engineering culture. Learning is a key element of our people strategy, and we have a variety of options for you to develop professionally. Our approach to the future of work champions flexibility and is rooted in the understanding that there have been dramatic shifts in the ways we work.

Having first established a presence in the Americas in the 19th century, Deutsche Bank opened its US technology centre in Cary, North Carolina in 2009
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Overview

The High Value Payments Team is looking for an experienced Lead Test Engineer to work on a complex, mission‑critical payments system. The ideal professional will have extensive experience with testing, monitoring, and supporting distributed systems written in Java. The team’s payments platform is currently a combination of Spring Boot applications and classic JEE applications, hosted on premises via OpenShift and other legacy managed services. We plan to upgrade and modernise this platform and need people eager to dive in and get their hands dirty. This is a good opportunity for somebody who wants meaningful hands‑on experience transforming a critical high‑volume application.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation and collaboration
• A hybrid working model with up to 60% work from home, allowing for in‑office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days and a commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility
• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
• Access to a strong network of Communities of Practice connecting you to colleagues with shared interests and values
• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, family building benefits and educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programmes

What You’ll Do

• Lead automated testing efforts for a complex distributed system for both front and back‑end components
• Automate legacy manual testing efforts and improve existing automated testing
• Advocate for, design, develop and deliver testing frameworks as appropriate, which bring a sense of confidence to product deliveries
• Mentor other SDETs and Engineers of all levels within the team on testing theory and practice
• Collaborate, maintain clear and open communication with the team, and share experience with the entire Engineering organisation

How You’ll Lead

• Strong mentoring and coaching experience
• Excellent communication, collaboration, mentorship and problem‑solving skills

Skills You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required and extensive hands‑on experience in testing of scalable, available, resilient and observable large‑scale distributed banking/finance applications
• Ability to work with both Business and technical stakeholders to create a coherent and comprehensive test plan
• Experience thoroughly testing software applications via unit, integration, end‑to‑end, load testing and the ability to discuss when and where to use each of these
• Experience with Gatling, Selenium, Playwright and JUnit
• Familiarity with testing various web/RPC services (e.g. REST, SOAP, gRPC), database technologies (e.g. SQL, Oracle, MongoDB), messaging (JMS, Kafka) and containerisation platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes)

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Experience migrating applications from on‑prem to cloud (we use GCP, but any cloud deployment experience is desirable)
• Domain experience with payments, banking, finance or in another highly regulated environment is a plus
• Excellent communication, collaboration, mentorship and problem‑solving skills; creatively solve complex problems and take ownership of the solution until its completion
• Intolerance for manual testing
• Working knowledge of Jenkins, GitHub Actions, SonarQube and static analysis tools are nice to have

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the Cary office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in Cary is $125,000 to $185,000. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.

At Deutsche Bank, we recognise that our benefit programmes have a profound impact on our colleagues. That’s why we are focused on providing benefits and perks that enable our colleagues to live authentically and be their whole selves, at every stage of life. We provide access to physical, emotional and financial wellbeing benefits that allow our colleagues to stay financially secure and strike balance between work and home.

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Qualified Applicants

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Click these links to view Deutsche Bank’s Equal Opportunity Policy Statement and the following notices: EEOC Know Your Rights; Employee Rights and Responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act; and Employee Polygraph Protection Act.