Principal Application Engineer (Testing Lead)

Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it - we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.
Job Description:
What You'll Do
Responsible for highly complex support of the company's information technology, applications and servers, which includes analysis, installation, testing, maintenance, operations, planning, response to service outages, and other problems. Ensures the integration of various elements of technology so that they function effectively for end users. Installs, maintains, and monitors software and servers ensuring proper administration of software licensing and updates. Configures, maintains, and monitors security access control systems.
In this dynamic and highly visible role, the Principal Testing Lead will determine network release success, collaborating with some of Discover's finest payments professionals developing new capabilities and features and working with dedicated network communication teams to promote bi-annual network release changes. Leverage your strong payments knowledge and industry expertise supporting the Discover Global Network (DGN) retained merchant processing platform.
Principal Testing Lead will review Network Release and off cycle requirements to build, test, and deploy comprehensive integration tests and automation workflows using industry standard tools with minimal oversight. Utilizes best practices to optimize processes using automation. Reduces incident handling time, change implementation time, and service delivery. Creates monitoring solutions using industry standard tools. Explores new technologies and upscales team members in utilizing these technologies.
How You'll Do It

• Creates technology solutions addressing high impact business priorities. Demonstrates the ability to analyze, design, code, test and deploy solutions and product features with high quality to production. Level of technical expertise enables solutions with high complexity and depth.
• Competent in multiple technical domains, including programming languages, security, automation, testing, and business domains. As a result, is the go-to person for many people outside of their team.
• Participates in strategic technology decisions and understands how these decisions impact Discover as a whole.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates issues based on intuition and experience in multiple domains. Is a thought leader amongst team members and drives problem solving to determine root cause.
• Coaches technology communities at Discover in areas of specific technology domain, design-thinking, agile software development way of working, security, architecture and/or data engineering.

Qualifications You'll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related
• 6+ years of experience in Information Technology (Software), Engineering, or related
• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Proficient on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Physical And Cognitive Requirements

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.
• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.
• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.
• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Manual Test Scenario Creation/testing
• Cypress or other for UI automation, Selenium with Java for API Automation.
• Cucumber BDD Framework / CICD Pipeline / Jenkins / Github
• Experience with Java and Cloud Technologies
• SQL & Some Mainframe testing and/ or automation is good to automate current manual file validations in new tools in future.

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview
Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Dec-02-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation:
The base pay for this position generally ranges between $107,000.00 to $180,200.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
Benefits:
We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com .
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.
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