Sr Manager, Software Development & Engineering Senior

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. 

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 Schwab Mobile at a pivotal time as we modernize core client experiences and raise the quality bar across iOS and Android. This role gives you direct influence on how millions of clients experience reliability, performance, and trust in every release. You will partner closely with engineering, product, and release teams to shape test strategy early and drive quality outcomes, not just defect detection. It is a strong opportunity for a QA leader who wants to combine hands-on mobile testing depth with broader ownership of quality practices across the SDLC.​​

What you have:

​​• Develop and maintain functional test automation scripts for mobile application using Appium with Java 
• Ensure automation is constantly running, analyzing, and promptly reporting on failures 
• Work with the leadership to research, investigate, implement and train other QA Testing Resources in the areas of Test Driven Development, Testing Automation using Appium with Java 
• Work cross-organizationally both within Schwab and with external vendors, both on and offshore to define environment requirements, identify Automation-related tools, develop and execute best Automation process and practices 
• Foster our end-to-end testing approach across multiple applications 
• Partner with geographically distributed teams to plan our future QA tooling and technology decisions 
• Leverage AI agents to accelerate QA automation, including test case generation, script maintenance, defect triage, test data preparation, and regression analysis 
• Create, configure, and maintain AI agents that support QA workflows, improve automation efficiency, and integrate with existing mobile testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines 
• Liaise with product teams, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to integrate project plans, testing schedules, and metrics reporting 
• Direct technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects 
• Recommend information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements 
• Guide and mentor junior team members in Mobile QA Team​

What you have

Required Qualifucations:

​​• Hands-on coding experience with Java or other object -oriented programming languages 
• Working knowledge of industry-standard tools for logging bugs and managing test cases (e.g., JIRA/MTM, Zephyr/HPQ) 
• Experience with agentic development concepts, including designing, building, prompting, evaluating, and maintaining AI agents for software quality and automation use cases 
▪ Designs advanced support processes and mentors peers to optimize functionality and security 
▪ Establishes robust processes to create, secure, and monitor data pipelines and stores 
▪ Designs efficient processes to resolve incidents and minimize downtime 
▪ Develops QA processes that confirm compliance and ensure operational reliability 
▪ Streamlines requirement analysis and validation for enhanced efficiency 
▪ Designs security processes to enhance security and regulatory compliance 
▪ Enhances processes that merge predictive and adaptive software design techniques 
▪ Designs efficient processes that ensure quality and resolve issues in software components 
▪ Optimizes processes for secure, compliant, and reliable software releases 
▪ Optimizes design processes by integrating predictive or adaptive methods with cloud principles​

Preferred Skills:

​​• Experience with XCUI and/or Espresso, Kotlin, SWIFT is preferred 
• Proven ability to successfully balance and deliver multiple geographically distributed QA projects with concurrent releases 
• Familiarity with mobile application architectures, cloud environments, and network conditions 
• Understanding of CI/CD practices and Lean DevOps methodologies
• Financial/Trading services industry experience is a plus​