Quality Engineer / Test Automation

Bank of America; Vermont; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking an automation-focused software engineer with ETL/Data Engineering, Mainframe, and real-time data replication experience. You will bridge Development and Quality Engineering, advancing automation and data validation across high-volume platforms.

You will own automated test frameworks, contribute to CI/CD integration, and drive testability and observability throughout the development lifecycle in a collaborative, in-office environment based in the United States.

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 ensures 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

ETL

Kafka

Mainframe

IIDR/CDC

Raft

Java

Co-Pilot

Octane

Litmus

Job description

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!

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.

LOB Position Summary

Seeking an automation-focused software engineer with experience in ETL/Data Engineering, Mainframe, and real-time data replication environments. Serve as the technical bridge between Development Engineers and Quality Engineers, aligning ETL solution development, automated validation frameworks, testability, and shift-left quality practices. Advance software engineering practices within Quality Engineering by embedding automation, data validation, observability, and testability throughout the development lifecycle. Support Unit, Feature and Integrated automation testing for mission-critical data services, with ownership of data integrity, transformation accuracy, replication reliability, and automated validation across high-volume integration and streaming platforms.

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 ensures data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments

Required 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

Desired Qualifications

• Experience building reusable automation frameworks for data-intensive, high-volume, and business-critical environments.
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams and influencing automation strategy across application, infrastructure, data, and quality engineering partners.
• Ability to communicate quality risks, automation coverage, dependencies, and business outcomes clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• DataStage, Python, AI Agents, SQL, UFT, Para Soft, GitHub, Bit-Bucket

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 Privacy Statement: https://careers.bankofamerica.com/en-us/privacy-notice At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being. Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization. Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us! Partnering Locally Learn about some of the ways Bank of America is making a difference in the communities we serve. Global Impact Learn about the six areas that guide Bank of America’s efforts to help make financial lives better for customers, clients, communities and our teammates. Opportunity and Inclusion Each employee brings unique skills, background and opinions. We see opportunity and inclusion as our platform for innovation and a key component in our success. Our Values Learn about our four values that represent what we believe. Pay Transparency: https://careers.bankofamerica.com/en-us/pay-transparency