Software Architect

About the position

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. seeks a Software Architect in Pittsburgh, PA to participate in all aspects of Enterprise Data Management Technology Quality Assurance activities. Position allows for the ability to work from home with appropriate telecommuting systems for up to three days per week, with a minimum of two days per week in the office.

Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership and support to design and implement automated testing frameworks in the Enterprise Data Management space.
• Leading the design and development of the Test Automation framework/harness and any in-house tools required.
• Conducting research to identify tools, automation frameworks and methodologies.
• Boosting the effectiveness of the team by assisting with optimizing testing processes.
• Collaborating cross functionally with Test Managers and Test Leads to proactively analyze current processes and practices and defining improvements of test strategy, test frameworks, infrastructure, tools and test coverage.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Computer Science, or Mathematics.
• 5 years of experience with Quality Assurance Database, Data Warehouse, and ETL testing in or for the financial services industry.
• Experience with working with enterprise applications including Enterprise Data Warehouse or Master Data Management.
• Experience testing multithreaded applications.
• Experience using XML schemas and documents for Enterprise Data Testing.
• Experience testing batch processes handling 10+ files with at least a million rows on a daily basis.
• Experience with automated testing, use of commercial tools Rational Quality Manager, and performance tooling including Mercury LoadRunner.
• Experience working in an Agile environment to support frequent incremental testing.
• Experience leading data testing projects.
• Experience coordinating all aspects of Quality Assurance testing including planning, estimation, control, delivery, quality, and reporting.
• Experience preparing Test Strategy, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Defect Logs, Test Summary Report and other Testing MIS reports.
• Experience using HP ALM/Jira as Requirements, Test and Defect Management tool for data projects.
• Experience using Mainframe as job scheduler for data loads and to access, read, and copy MF files, Unix for accessing, reading, and copying hdfs(hadoop) files, MS SQL, and BIG SQL for data validation.
• Experience using tools Mercury Load Runner, Rational Quality Manager, Selenium, or Cucumber.
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience with relational database management (Oracle or SQL or MySQL).

Benefits

• Medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
• Dental and vision options
• Employee and spouse/child life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability protection
• Maternity and parental leave
• Paid holidays, vacation days and occasional absence time
• 401(k), pension and stock purchase plans
• Dependent care reimbursement account
• Back-up child/elder care
• Adoption assistance
• Educational assistance
• Robust wellness program with financial incentives