Test Automation Engineer I

Summary

The Test Automation Engineer develops, executes, and maintains automated test cases that assess software functionality and performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Codes reusable test functions or components.
• Reviews software requirements and specifications to develop an automated testing strategy for a product or release.
• Executes automated tests using multiple systems, platforms, environments, or browsers. Logs and track defects, reports technical issues to development or product management teams, and verifies fixes.
• Requires an understanding of the software development life cycle.

Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate proactive approach to problem resolution, strong troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.
• Maintains expert knowledge of the product(s) and ensures that adaptations to applications provide solutions to user's needs.
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify complex problems; review related information and develop options and implement solutions.
• Stays abreast of current technologies and develops innovative ideas to be introduced into new or existing products.

Education and Experience

• Working knowledge of automated browser testing preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, or related field; or combination of education and experience required
• ~1 year experience in software quality or related function
• Working knowledge of object-oriented programming languages preferred

About Stifel

Stifel is a more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.