Within Schwab Technology Services, the Trade Rules platform plays a critical role in supporting regulated trading environments across our brokerage, retirement, and stock plan businesses. This platform enables proactive trade monitoring and helps ensure compliance at enterprise scale. As Schwab continues to invest in modernizing this platform, we are building a strong, co-located engineering presence in Southlake to drive the next phase of innovation and technical excellence.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will be a key technical leader responsible for shaping the future of test automation within the team. You will play a pivotal role in the transition from a low-code automation solution to a modern, code-based framework using Java and Selenium-bring best-in-class engineering practices to how we design, build, and scale automation.
In this role, you will work hands-on within a scrum team while partnering closely with developers, product owners, and other SDETs to ensure quality is built into every stage of delivery. You will lead by example-designing robust, maintainable automation frameworks, improving existing regression capabilities, and building reusable components that accelerate development and testing at scale.
This is a unique opportunity to influence both technical direction and team capability. You will mentor and elevate junior SDETs, help establish automation standards, and drive a strong quality-focused engineering culture. Your contributions will directly impact the reliability, scalability, and success of a high-impact platform supporting Schwab's core trading operations.
If you are passionate about hands-on engineering, enjoy solving complex problems, and are energized by mentoring others while driving technical excellence, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
Key Responsibilities- Develop and maintain UI and API test automation using Selenium, Java, and related tools.
- Implement automation strategies for web services, middleware, and UI.
- Ensure automation is scalable, maintainable, and integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Build automation test data solutions and support data refresh processes.
- Partner with developers to enhance CI/CD automation.
- Serve as SDET for one or more scrum teams, collaborating with the scrum master, product owner, and developers.
- Maintain test cases, results, and automation code using JIRA, Bitbucket, and other Atlassian tools.
- Design and run continuous testing pipelines (regression/smoke) using Bamboo.
- Support BDD practices using Gherkin/Ruby/Cucumber.
- Contribute to consistent, high-quality delivery across sprints and releases.
What you haveRequired Qualifications - 7+ years of professional experience with a bachelor's or advanced degree.
- 3-4+ years of hands-on Java development experience (writing and reviewing code).
- 7+ years of test automation experience in Agile environments.
- Experience in building Test Automation Framework using Selenium, RestAssured
- Experience with Parallel executions and using SauceLabs, MongoDB
Preferred Qualifications - Experience designing scalable UI and API automation frameworks.
- Strong Java and object-oriented programming expertise.
- Proficiency with Selenium, SoapUI, Maven, REST-Assured, and related tools.
- Experience with cloud technologies (PCF, GCP), MongoDB, and Git-based source control.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and business partners.
- Familiarity with test data management practices.
- IaaS concepts- Understanding of IAS (infrastructure as service) in context of application testing.
"In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities."
