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# Quality Engineer / Test Automation

- **Company:** Bank of America
- **Location:** Addison, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Automation of Tests, Big Data, Software Bug Management, Continuous Integration, Data as a Services, Data Validation, Information Engineering, Data Integrity, Extract Transform Load (ETL), IBM InfoSphere DataStage, DevOps, Github, Python (Programming Language), Mainframes, Microsoft Copilot, Software Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis, SQL Databases, Test Data, Test Execution Engine, Delivery Pipeline, Backend, Agentic-AI, Real Time Data, Apache Kafka, Bitbucket, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://ghr.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Lateral-US/job/Addison/Quality-Engineer---Test-Automation_26038185

## About the Role

* 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

## 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., * 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 ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments