Description

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as a part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

We're looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges and shaping technology that millions of traders rely on every day. Join our thinkorswim® backend services team and work on the core of an innovative trading platform-secure login, real-time market data, order routing, and advanced risk and margin calculations. You'll lead automation and quality strategies in an agile environment, collaborating with top engineers to deliver resilient, high-performance systems at scale. If you want a role where your work directly impacts real-time trading and gives you room to innovate, grow, and make a difference, this is it.

What you have

Required Qualifications

▪ 3 years: Leading design and executes comprehensive test strategies for backend services, APIs, and distributed

systems, including inter-service communication such as Java RMI and messaging patterns.

▪ 3 years: Applying analytical skills to validate real-time data, order routing, authentication/login workflows, and other

critical backend processes using production-like data and environments.

▪ 3 years: Testing complex trading platforms-covering critical user journeys such as authentication and seamless

login experiences, real-time market data distribution, and order execution-to ensure accuracy, resiliency, and

performance at scale.

▪ 8 years: Troubleshooting issues in high-throughput, low-latency systems, leveraging logs, metrics, and traces to

isolate defects across service boundaries.

▪ 2 years: Applying proficiency with Java, microservices, REST APIs, and at least one messaging platform (e.g., Kafka,

RabbitMQ, JMS, or QDS), plus common test and build tools (JUnit/TestNG, Gradle/Maven, Git, TeamCity/GitHub

Actions).

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

▪ 10 years: Utilizing relational databases and SQL for large-scale data validation and troubleshooting.

▪ 15 years: Guiding QA strategy by leveraging deep knowledge of backend systems and industry best practices.

▪ 10 years: Championing QA best practices in an Agile environment and driving continuous improvement of test

coverage and reliability.

▪ 2 years: Using API testing tools (e.g., Postman, RestAssured)

▪ Produces high-quality documentation and test artifacts tailored for different audiences (engineering, product,

compliance).

Preferred Qualifications

▪ Communicates clearly and collaborates effectively across engineering, product, and delivery teams.
▪ Mentors team members and shares expertise to foster growth in test automation, performance testing, and resiliency practices.
▪ Synthesizes stakeholder input to make informed decisions and anticipate impacts on quality and delivery.
▪ Seeks innovative methods and tools to improve test efficiency and effectiveness, including contract testing, schema validation, and automation for messaging services (Kafka/JMS/QDS).
▪ Influences improvements in CI/CD integration, test observability, and overall QA process maturity.
▪ Produces high - quality documentation and test artifacts tailored for different audiences (engineering, product, compliance).
▪ Hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright) and API testing tools (e.g., Postman, RestAssured).
▪ Experience with performance/load testing (e.g., Gatling, JMeter, K6) and resiliency scenarios (timeouts, retries, failover).
▪ Knowledge of advanced SQL techniques for large - scale data validation.

Job Family-Specific Competencies

• Analytical Thinking - Approaching a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach
• Business Acumen - Ability to perform with insight, acuteness, and intelligence in the areas of the industry
  
  Make decisions and act in situations in which there is not enough information to be certain of outcome or implications of the decision
• Forward Thinking - Anticipating consequences of situations and taking appropriate action to be prepared for possible contingencies
• Software Release and Deployment - Managing the deployment of software updates while ensuring compliance with safety, security, and quality standards
• Thoroughness - Ensuring that one's own and other's work and information are complete and accurate
  
  Careful preparation for meetings and presentations
  
  Following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled
• Quality Assurance Testing - Confirming the integrity and reliability of business operations through rigorous testing and compliance verification

Requisition #: 2025-117050

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2025-117050