Quality Assurance Test Engineer

Your opportunity

Charles Schwab is recruiting a driven, results-oriented Mainframe QA Lead who shares our passion for technology, innovation, and excellence. Our main goal here at Schwab is to transform people’s lives by changing the way the world invests. We are enhancing our core applications to support scalability and modernize our systems with the goal of serving our clients.

The Mainframe QA Lead will be a hands-on lead who excels in a dynamic, fast-moving, and agile environment and is passionate about ensuring high quality, scalable software. The candidate will work with a team of seasoned engineers, product owners, and business analysts, whose main objective is to maintain all aspects of the overall software development lifecycle and ensure the on-time, quality delivery of software product releases.

Ideal candidates enjoy fast-paced environments, thrive under pressure, and embrace change passionately. The successful candidate has experience in a technical QA lead role in a Mainframe environment and can analyze, test, and direct other QA professionals to ensure that all software accurately aligns with the needs of business, while also adhering to regulatory needs.

What you have

14+ years of experience in mainframe technologies – COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, SQL Stored Procedures, Messaging Queues, CICS, Easytrieve, Datacom, SORT utilities

4+ years of QA end-to-end testing experience in Finance industry and working with Regulatory bodies such as DTCC and SEC.

7+ years in scheduling tools such as Control-M, ChangeMan, FileAid, Startool, TOAD, and SPUFI

2+ years in Brokerage and Settlements space

1-2 years of Schwab technology domain experience as a current or recent contractor or employee

Thorough understanding of Agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures including associated tools such as JIRA and Rally

Strong experience in thorough Use Case creation and execution

Strong experience in collaborating with business and technical teams to understand requirements and impact analysis

Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision- making and conflict resolution skills

Self-motivated as well as creative and efficient in proposing solutions to complex, time-critical problems.

Independently executes priorities and is accountable to meet schedules and deliverables.

Proficient managing multiple priorities in a dynamic, geographically dispersed environment.

Microsoft Office Tools proficiency

Professional Experience

Experience in understanding and articulating enterprise level systems and data flows to aid with QA involving testing, development, and implementation of Mainframe based applications and databases.

Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work

with remote and globally distributed teams.

Be self-motivated, driven, and passionate in resolving complex and time-sensitive business problems through simple and innovative technical solutions.

It is imperative that the candidate has excellent and strong RCA (Root Cause Analysis) skills and identifying the possible solutions to the identified issues at complex enterprise applications/systems.

Ability to lead as well as work independently as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team.

Work with multi-platform teams to ensure the quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area and oversee updating and testing strategy.

Passionate about technical mentoring of junior staff and peers

Prior experience in financial services industry and regulatory document processing is a plus

Must have a keen sense to identify areas of automation to improve and streamline testing process.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions

Paid parental leave and family building benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

What’s in it for you:

At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions

Paid parental leave and family building benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Schwab is an affirmative action employer, focused on employing and advancing in employment, qualified women, racial and ethnic minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities in the workplace. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodations in the application process, contact Human Resources at applicantaccessibility@schwab.com or call 800-275-1281.