• About this role

  Wells Fargo’s Financial Crimes and Regulatory Operations Technology (FCROT) team is seeking an Automation-Focused QA Lead / SDET Lead to drive quality engineering excellence across enterprise-scale, cloud-native platforms.

  Our mission is to deliver stable, secure, scalable, container-based technologies and innovative services at speeds that delight and satisfy our customers and unleash the potential of our customers.

  The team delivers platforms and solutions that improve the effectiveness and efficiency of Financial Crimes and Regulatory Operations, including AML, Fraud, and KYC. This role focuses on automation-first test engineering, BDD/TDD practices, and end-to-end quality across microservices architectures.

  In this role, you will

  • Lead quality engineering and automation strategy for enterprise-scale applications.

  • Drive BDD using Cucumber and Gherkin with product and engineering teams.

  • Build and maintain automated test suites for component, API, and end-to-end testing.

  • Implement UI automation using Selenium or equivalent tool.

  • Perform microservices and API automation testing.

  • Embed TDD and shift-left testing practices.

  • Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.

  • Mentor SDETs and QA engineers and lead defect triage.

  • Ensure regulatory compliance and audit readiness.

  • Support complex engineering initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact.

  • Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively.

  • Leverage your understanding of industry best practices and new technologies to influence and mentor other technology teams to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives.

  • Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost.

  • Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals.

  • Work in a globally distributed team to provide innovative and robust Cloud centric solutions.

  Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering / SDET roles.

  • Strong hands-on automation experience.

  • Experience with Cucumber, Gherkin, BDD, and TDD.

  • Selenium UI automation experience.

  • Microservices and API testing using Postman.

  • Component and end-to-end testing expertise.

  • CI/CD integration experience.

  • Cloud testing experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

  • Experience working in Kubernetes environment

  • Experience in performance testing automation

  Desired Qualifications

  • Enterprise-scale automation leadership experience.

  • Financial services or regulated industry experience.

  • Performance, security, and resiliency testing knowledge.

  • AML, Fraud, or KYC domain experience.

  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

• • Hands on java/python experience

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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