At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 15,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work. In a typical branch office, a financial advisor meets with clients and receives branch office support, so they can focus on building deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis, Tempe and Mississauga provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. We continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors. * Develop the quality assurance strategy within the portfolio, in collaboration with functional area counterparts * Responsible for architecting test automation systems, and determining the optimal test automation technologies for solutions delivered using disparate languages and platforms in collaboration with test and development engineer counterparts * Responsible for identifying and defining strategic and productivity initiatives to improve quality and velocity of the organization * Partner with delivery teams to track and act upon key performance indicators to enable continuous improvement of product quality and user experience * Partner with the various software infrastructure teams to optimize the CI pipeline and implement quality gates to support DevOps * Communicate a coherent vision for quality best practices, coding standards, release strategy and tool usage * B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or Management Information Systems preferred or related work experience. * 3+ years of proven experience in an application development/testing role, developing in a source-controlled environment. * 3+ years hands-on experience developing automation tools, framework, continuous integration * Enterprise software experience, Cloud and/or SaaS providers, or web application providers is a plus * 3+ years of experience developing test automation solutions for presentation layers and APIs * Experience establishing Test Automation Frameworks and creating reusable components libraries while implementing effective quality assurance strategies and best practices * Experience using the following technologies/tools: * Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured or equivalent web-service automation tool * JUnit, TestNG, Spock, Cucumber/Gherkin, Cypress, Jasmine, Karma * Serenity BDD * Gradle, Maven * GitHub, Jira, IntelliJ, Eclipse * Test data management * Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD tools * Kubernetes and microservices, Restful APIs * 2021 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For By Great Place to Work and FORTUNE Magazine Edward Jones was named No. 20 on the list. * From FORTUNE 2021 FORTUNE Media IP Limited. All rights reserved. Used under license. FORTUNE and FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For are registered trademarks of Fortune Media IP Limited and are used under license. FORTUNE and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of, Edward Jones Investments. * 2021 Corporate Equality Index Edward Jones joins the ranks of 767 major U.S. businesses that received top marks in the Foundations 19th annual scorecard on LGBTQ workplace equality. * From The Human Rights Campaign. All Rights Reserved * 2021 Training Top 100 list - Edward Jones ranked No. 19, up six spots from last year in its 21st consecutive year on this prestigious list. * J.D. Power, 2021 Edward Jones has ranked "highest in Employee Advisor Satisfaction among Financial Investment Firms" in the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study. * Edward Jones received the highest score among employee advisors in the J.D. Power 2007,2008, 2010, 2012-2015, 2017-2021 Financial Advisor Satisfaction Studies of employee advisors satisfaction among those who are employed by an investment services firm. Visit jdpower.com/awards for more information. Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. At Edward Jones, we value and respect our associates and their contributions, and we recognize individual efforts through a rewards program that promotes a long-term career, financial security and well-being. [Visit our career site](https://careers.edwardjones.com/compensation-and-values/) to learn more about our total compensation approach, which in addition to base salary, typically includes benefits, bonuses and profit sharing. The salary range for this role is based on national data and actual pay is based on skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors for a potential new associate: