Manager, Software Development & Engineering

Your Opportunity

Schwab remains committed to providing increased visibility to career growth opportunities and job requirements. This posting announcement is part of increased transparency and while all qualified applicants will be reviewed and considered, this organization has a preferred candidate identified for this role.

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.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.

Schwab Technology Services enables the future of how clients manage their money by providing innovative and reliable technology products and services as part of our ongoing commitment to democratize access to investing and financial planning.

Join a team responsible for ensuring software quality and release readiness across critical applications. The Embedded Functional QA Engineer will work closely with development teams, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and business partners to validate requirements, test application functionality, identify risks, and support stable delivery.

This role is primarily focused on functional and embedded testing within the delivery team. The expectation is that the engineer will also increase automation coverage as part of daily testing work by identifying repeatable test scenarios, automating high-value regression coverage, and helping improve the team’s overall test efficiency.

The position provides opportunities to build deep application knowledge, strengthen functional testing practices, expand automation skills, and contribute to continuous improvement across the testing process.

​​•Perform embedded functional testing within the delivery team, including story validation, integration testing, regression testing, defect retesting, and release readiness support.
•Review business requirements, acceptance criteria, and technical changes to create clear, effective test plans and test cases.
•Identify, document, triage, and track defects while partnering with Application Development teams to drive timely resolution.
•Build and maintain a strong understanding of application workflows, system integrations, test data needs, and downstream impacts.
•Increase automation coverage by identifying repeatable manual tests that can be automated as part of day-to-day testing.
•Develop, maintain, and execute automated tests for functional, regression, API, and integration coverage where appropriate.
•Partner with automation engineers, developers, and QA leads to improve test coverage, reduce manual regression effort, and strengthen release confidence.
•Develop test data strategies, identify testing risks, recommend mitigation plans, and raise quality concerns early.
•Collaborate with Business Analysts, Product Owners, and technology teams to validate requirements and ensure testing aligns with business and technical expectations.
•Contribute to process improvements, testing standards, and automation best practices across the team.​

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

•5+ years of experience in functional software testing, quality assurance, or a related testing role.
•Strong experience creating and executing test plans, test cases, regression tests, and defect validation activities.
•Experience working as an embedded QA partner within Agile or delivery teams.
•Experience translating business requirements and acceptance criteria into effective functional test coverage.
•Hands-on experience with defect management, root cause analysis, test data preparation, and release readiness validation.
•Working knowledge of automation concepts and experience contributing to automated test coverage.
•Experience with Java-based automation frameworks or willingness to actively expand automation skills.
•Experience with tools or technologies such as Java, Selenium, Cucumber, REST APIs, Oracle, JUnit, Gradle, Swagger, or similar platforms.
•Experience working in Windows, Linux, or Unix environments.
•Solid understanding of SDLC principles, testing methodologies, distributed systems, and how applications interact across integrated environments.
•Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, communication, and collaboration skills.
•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
Domain-Specific Required Qualifications
•Hands-on experience testing ngOMS REST services, including validating API functionality, data integrity, error handling, and system integrations.
•Hands-on experience testing ngOMS CORE functionality, including order lifecycle processing, business rule validation, workflow testing, and end-to-end transaction flows.
•Hands-on experience using the ngOMS Automation Framework to develop, execute, maintain, and troubleshoot automated test coverage.
•Demonstrated ability to identify manual test scenarios and expand automated regression coverage within the ngOMS ecosystem.

Preferred Qualifications

​•Experience converting manual regression tests into automated coverage.
•Experience testing APIs, services, batch processes, data flows, or system integrations.
•Familiarity with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle Coherence, Java RMI, Jira, or similar tools.
•Experience partnering with automation engineers or developers to improve automation coverage.
•Knowledge of financial markets, trading systems, order management, or financial operations.
•Experience mentoring junior QA engineers or helping improve team testing practices.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities