Automation Engineer

Role Overview: You will be joining the QA team at Charles River Development (CRD), a State Street company, where you will be responsible for ensuring product stability, performance, and automation scalability through hands-on testing and continuous quality improvements. As an experienced Automation Engineer (Officer level), you will play a crucial role in manual and automation testing, with a focus on test design, automation development, and end-to-end quality validation across releases. Collaboration with various stakeholders within Agile Scrum teams will be essential to ensure quality ownership throughout the development process. Key Responsibilities: - Collaborate with Scrum Master, Product Owner, Architects, BAs, and Developers to ensure end-to-end quality ownership within Agile Scrum teams. - Design, develop, and scale automated test frameworks and regression suites to validate business requirements across products and services. - Demonstrate strong programming expertise in Java/C#/JavaScript/Python for building maintainable automation solutions. - Build and integrate CI/CD pipelines for executing automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests. - Perform hands-on front-end automation testing using Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent industry-standard tools. - Execute and maintain manual and automated test suites covering functional, integration, regression, and performance testing. - Interpret automation results, log defects, and collaborate with developers for timely issue resolution. - Test REST APIs, microservices, Azure Functions, and serverless workflows while performing initial cloud-environment troubleshooting. - Independently write SQL queries to validate data correctness and support root-cause analysis. - Champion QA process improvements by researching and recommending modern automation strategies, including AI-assisted testing. - Mentor junior QA engineers on test design, automation best practices, and Agile quality standards. Qualifications Required: - 10+ years of experience in software QA with a strong emphasis on test automation. - Proven experience as a hands-on individual contributor (not a people-management role). - Strong expertise in UI and API automation (e.g., Selenium, Rest Assured, or equivalent). - Strong understanding of test frameworks (e.g., TestNG, Cucumber, BDD-style frameworks). - Proficiency in Java. - Strong manual testing fundamentals and test design methodologies. - Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery models. - Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution. - Ability to write SQL queries for validation and perform strong defect analysis. Company Details: Charles River Development is a platform that provides various Front-Office functions, including Portfolio Management, Order Management and Execution, Compliance, Performance & Attribution, Modelling, Scenario Analysis, and Wealth Management. It is a part of State Street Bank, one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers, and asset intelligence companies globally. State Street is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and offers competitive benefits packages, flexible work programs, and development opportunities for its employees. For more information about State Street, visit www.statestreet.com/careers. Role Overview: You will be joining the QA team at Charles River Development (CRD), a State Street company, where you will be responsible for ensuring product stability, performance, and automation scalability through hands-on testing and continuous quality improvements. As an experienced Automation Engineer (Officer level), you will play a crucial role in manual and automation testing, with a focus on test design, automation development, and end-to-end quality validation across releases. Collaboration with various stakeholders within Agile Scrum teams will be essential to ensure quality ownership throughout the development process. Key Responsibilities: - Collaborate with Scrum Master, Product Owner, Architects, BAs, and Developers to ensure end-to-end quality ownership within Agile Scrum teams. - Design, develop, and scale automated test frameworks and regression suites to validate business requirements across products and services. - Demonstrate strong programming expertise in Java/C#/JavaScript/Python for building maintainable automation solutions. - Build and integrate CI/CD pipelines for executing automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests. - Perform hands-on front-end automation testing using Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent industry-standard tools. - Execute and maintain manual and automated test suites covering functional, integration, regression, and performance testing. - Interpret automation results, log defects, and collaborate with developers for timely issue resolution. - Test REST APIs, microservices, Azure Functions, and serverless workflows while performing initial cloud-environment troubleshoot