Senior Associate Application Engineer (Quality)

at  Discover Financial Services

Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world’s leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

What You’ll Do
As a Senior Associate Quality Application Engineer (Quality), you’ll be a key part of our agile delivery teams– from helping refine and test requirements, to building automated regression test suites. You’ll ultimately help ensure your team continually delivers quality applications into production at Discover. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
Responsible for the ability to program most features and test cases unattended but lacks a complete overview of product development and operations. As a result, handovers to other team members limits productivity. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
How You’ll Do It
Completes most features and user stories including test cases and automation unattended
Learn more complex software engineering practices such as domain driven design, test driven development, operations, and security
Contributes to agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms, and participates in technology communities
Participates in system design decisions and learns how these decisions impact the product as a whole
Learns to support production systems and understands how observed events and failures impact the product
Minimum Qualifications

AT A MINIMUM, HERE’S WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology, or related
Experience in Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of advance beginner on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:
Primarily remain in a stationary position.
No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.
Preferred Qualifications

Please refer the Job description for details