Quality Engineer

Quest Oracle Community; Jersey City, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America in Jersey City, NJ seeks a senior QA leader to own end-to-end testing across enterprise-scale programs. You will drive test strategy, automation, data validation, and governance for risk applications, coordinating manual, automated, and data testing teams to ensure release quality and regulatory compliance.

Lead multi-team test planning, define automation roadmaps, and collaborate with business stakeholders to sign off on test cases, while fostering a culture of continuous

Qualifications

• 10+ years of QA leadership experience managing enterprise-scale testing initiatives.
• Proven experience leading large QA organizations across manual, automation, and data testing.
• Strong background in test automation, data validation, and enterprise application testing.
• Experience implementing QA governance, risk-based testing, and release management practices.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and continuous testing methodologies.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.

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.
• Define and execute the overall QA strategy aligned with business and technology team for all market risk applications.
• Lead and manage QA teams consisting of manual, automation, and data testers.
• Establish quality standards, testing methodologies, and best practices across projects.

Skills

QA Leadership

Python Automation

Advanced SQL

ETL & Data Warehouse Testing

Data Migration Validation

Test Automation Frameworks

Agile & DevOps

Executive Communication

Risk & Release Management

Stakeholder Management

Analytical Thinking

Business Acumen

Collaboration

Solution Design

Solution Delivery Process

Automation

DevOps Practices

User Experience Design

Influence

Tools

DB2

Oracle

SQL Server

Job description

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description

This job is responsible for testing and delivering complex software requirements to accomplish business outcomes, ensuring the testing strategy and processes are well-defined and continuously improved. Key responsibilities include establishing a test and automation strategy, creating common test frameworks, defining and managing test processes including test data generation, defect management and reporting. Job expectations include understanding and implementing internal/external mandate, ensuring compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments, and manages traceability.

Position Summary

• Function as Lead for Risk QA space while managing test delivery/automation and focus on MRT platform stability and improvements.

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
• Define and execute the overall QA strategy aligned with business and technology team for all market risk applications
• Lead and manage QA teams consisting of manual, automation, and data testers.
• Establish quality standards, testing methodologies, and best practices across projects
• Drive a quality-first culture and provide continuous improvement initiatives to ensure production stability
• Develop QA roadmaps, automation strategies, and testing transformation plans.
• Ensure adherence to organizational QA governance and compliance requirements.
• Own end-to-end QA delivery across multiple projects and releases
• Define test scope, test approach, resource allocation, and timelines and Review project requirements to ensure adequate test coverage.
• Manage SIT Regression, Integration, Performance, and Feature validation activities.
• Define automation strategy and framework roadmap, adoption of Python-based automation solutions, Improve regression and integration automation coverage.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of QA leadership experience managing enterprise-scale testing initiatives.
• Proven experience leading large QA organizations across manual, automation, and data testing disciplines.
• Strong background in test automation, data validation, and enterprise application testing.
• Experience implementing QA governance, risk-based testing, and release management practices.
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, and continuous testing methodologies.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Expected Skills

• QA Leadership & Governance
• Python Automation
• DB2 / Oracle / SQL Server / Advanced SQL
• ETL & Data Warehouse Testing
• Data Migration Validation
• Reporting & Regulatory Testing
• Test Automation Frameworks
• Agile & DevOps
• AI Tools (GitHub Copilot, GenAI Testing Tools)
• People Management
• Risk & Release Management
• Executive Communication

Desired Qualifications

• Experience within banking, financial services, risk management, or regulatory reporting domains.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps-driven testing practices.
• Exposure to cloud-based , AI data platforms and modern data engineering ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of data quality frameworks, controls, and audit requirements.

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

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$98,000.00 - $141,600.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.