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SDET Engineer

AT Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab

SDET Engineer

Austin, TX

Pay range: USD $57.69 - $69.71 / Hour

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.

The Retail Web Technology organization provides a high quality, common platform for all Schwab clients including advisors, individuals, and active investors. Each Retail Web Technology engineering team is responsible for test strategy and planning, authoring test plans and scripts, and automating functional and regression testing as part of our goal to deliver best-in-class features on Schwab.com. In RWT, we strive to embody Schwab's Through Clients' Eyes strategy through our people and creative solutions.

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What you'll do:

Are you a highly skilled, QA-focused Software Developer? Do you live the ATDD dream, and share our expertise writing excellent automation using WebdriverIO, Protractor, or Ruby? We'd love to tell you more. Your responsibilities would include:

  • Implement standard methodologies, resolve test issues, track and prioritize defects, record test results, participate in product readiness and release decisions
  • Ensure automation is constantly running, analyzing, and promptly reporting on failures
  • Participate in technical governance and help facilitate overall product quality standards with development and business teams
  • Foster our end-to-end testing approach across multiple applications
  • Research, investigate, and implement Agile testing practices, Test Driven Development, Test Automation and reporting Test Metrics
  • Amplify our philosophy to consistency communicate and report with a quality emphasis
  • Liaise with product teams, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to integrate project plans, testing schedules, and metrics reporting
  • Assist in driving Use Case and User Story reviews, and help resolve requirements ambiguities
  • Partner with geographically-distributed teams to plan our future QA tooling and technology decisions

What you have

Required Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance
  • 3+ years developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts
  • Solid understanding of QA practices (black box testing, risk-based testing, system testing, regression testing, exploratory testing)
  • Hands-on coding experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, C# or other object-oriented programming languages
  • Experience with Selenium WebDriver, Angular UI testing (Protractor, WebdriverIO), or similar
  • Experience with Agile development practices
  • Ability to participate in product code reviews

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Gherkin language, like Cucumber, JBehave, or SpecFlow
  • Understanding of CI/CD practices and Lean DevOps methodologies
  • Familiarity with Bamboo and Git
  • Financial/Trading services industry interest is a plus

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

Client-provided location(s): Austin, TX, USA
Job ID: CharlesSchwab-2025-108298
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Snacks
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Sabbatical
    • Leave of Absence
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Performance Bonus
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Promote From Within
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Internship Program
    • Work Visa Sponsorship
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program