Senior API Automation Tester

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Client: Capco

Based: Dallas (twice a week onsite)

Length: 6 months

Job title: Snr API Automation Tester 

About the Team:

At Capco, we believe in fostering an inclusive work environment where you can #BeYourselfAtWork. Our Cybersecurity team is dynamic and dedicated to evaluating, strategizing, and implementing risk-aware solutions for top-tier organizations in the Financial Services sector. We tailor enterprise risk management strategies to address potential cyber threats. Our team excels in guiding financial institutions' leadership on key cybersecurity priorities, leveraging expertise in financial processes, strategic advisory, cyber programs, and security operations.

About the Job:

Designing the overall testing plan for projects and leading sophisticated defect detection, problem solving and troubleshooting related to project development.

• Performs in a lead capacity role within the team in making decisions related to quality.

• Designs and develops test automation scripts at scale.

• Research issues in software through testing and Develops test automation frameworks for Web, Mobile & API.

• Investigates and implements new tools and methods.

• Maintains and extends existing build tools.

• Defines test strategy/test approach at project level.

• Contributes to code reviews, with special emphasis on testability and Introduces/suggests new processes and techniques.

• Identifies opportunities for automation within software processes.

• Designs and executes QA tests using scripts that automatically test functionality.

• Designs test cases to exercise new product features. Validate that requirements and bug fixes meet acceptance criteria.

• Automates new and existing test cases for Web, Mobile & API.

• Implements test strategy/test plan.

• Implements contentious testing using build tools like Jenkins.

• Identifies bugs and quality issues in development, service, or business processes

• Installs applications including build and testing tools

• Collaborates with other business units to understand how automation can improve workflow.

• Gathers requirements from clients, customers, or end-users to develop the best test automation solutions.

• Influences team to better Identify any new features that are testable.

• Understands testing across multiple concurrent work streams.

• Contributes to best practices and standards put in place by the Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE).

• Understands dependency between teams.

• Collaborates with the project teams to develop solutions.

• Collaborates with quality engineering on testing approach, strategy, and guidelines.

• Understands and implements quality compliance and governance.

• Follows best practices and standards put in place by the Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) & Participates in Agile planning activities. 

• Engages TCOE to update standard playbooks

Why Capco? 

A career at Capco is a chance to help reshape the competitive landscape in financial services. We launch new banks, transform existing ones, and help our clients navigate complex change. As consultants, we work on the front-end business design all the way through to technology implementation.

We are the largest Financial Services focused consultancy in the world, serving everyone from global banks to emerging FinTechs, from strategy through digital transformation, design, business consulting, data and analytics, cyber, cloud, technology architecture, and engineering.

Capco is a young and growing firm. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit and growth mindset and have minimal bureaucracy. We have no internal silos that get in the way of your career opportunities or ability to focus on our clients and make a difference to the business. We offer the opportunity for everyone to learn rapidly, take on tough challenges, and get promoted quickly. We take pride in our creative, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture, where everyone can #BYAW.