With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.  Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.  American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.  And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.  Find your place in technology on #TeamAmex.

About American Express Cloud Engineering (CE):

American Express Cloud Engineering (CE) provides comprehensive platform that enables business critical applications to have Faster Time-to-Market for American Express. CE offers fast-paced rapid code-to-development models and services such as Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, DB-as-a-Service, Analytics-as-a-Service, Messaging-as-a-Service, CICD Pipelines, etc. for application developers in a hybrid cloud environment. Cloud Engineering enables Application developers to write modern scalable cloud native applications.

Job Description:

As a Software Engineer for Quality Engineering team of Enterprise Cloud, you will be driving the test strategy, test automation and implementation of the next generation of Platform-as-a-Service, Database-as-a-Service, Cloud Services, Infrastructure-as-a-Service for American Express in private and public cloud. You will be working closely with our Software Engineers from development teams, Product team, Business Partners and Systems Engineers, and have an opportunity to work with multitude of tools and technologies.

Responsibilities:
- Leverage coding expertise to develop and maintain test tools and frameworks to validate unit, integration and functional features of API, UI, and platform in private and public cloud
- Design and develop mock frameworks to help QE team complete E2E testing by stubbing out various different components
- Develop API libraries that can be used by QE team to extend the integration testing for various cloud platform integration workflows (i.e. PaaS, IaaS, CI/CD, Network, etc)
- Research market and industry trends in the development and maintenance of test tools and frameworks
- Work closely with development, product, QE and infrastructure teams to collaborate on tools and methods to improve the quality of cloud platform offerings
- Develop complex integration test cases and test. Plans based on formal and informal requirements, debug and isolate bugs and drive to resolution
- Integrate test automation with Jenkins and execute regression tests on nightly build
- Experience with CI/CD and project management tools (e.g. Git, GHA, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence)
- Mentor QE team members on test automation best practices
- Help out with manual testing efforts during crunch phase

Minimum Qualifications: 

-        3+ years hands-on Java/GOLang development experience

-        3+ years TestNG or Junit experience

-        3+ year experience building / Testing REST API’s

-        3+ year experience building / Testing UI using Selenium/BDD framework

-       3+ years in Linux, particularly Red Hat/CentOS

-       2+ years Jenkins experience

-       2+ years Maven experience

-       2+ years Docker experience

-       2+ years Terraform experience

-       2+ years’ experience in Git, GHA, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence

Have knowledge or with hands-on-experience on:

·      Any public cloud platforms:   AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat Openshift

·      Any public cloud managed services:   Elasticache, OpenSearch, Aurora DB, Memory Store, PubSub,etc

·      Any test frameworks/tools:  Groovy, GOLang, Python, Selenium, Cucumber, Serenity

·      WebDriver automation experience a big plus

·      Knowledge on logging & monitoring tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch, Promotheus is a plus

·      Experience in Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, Terraform, Terratest, Gherkin is a plus

Nice to Have:

·      Fast learner, eager to use and understand new technologies

·      Detail oriented, with solid analytical skills and problem-solving ability

·      Can demonstrate dedication to quality and have a positive, collaborative approach to testing

·      Self-motivated; always in the look-out for improvement opportunities and can work independently

·      Knowledge in cloud/cloud consumption (both private and public cloud)

·      Team worker, willing to work with colleagues across different timezones

·      Flexible to work on nights and weekends, if necessary, to cover production releases

At the core of Software Engineering:

Every member of our team must be able to demonstrate the following technical, functional, leadership and business core competencies, including:

- Agile Practices
- Porting/Software Configuration
- Programming Languages and Frameworks - Business Analysis
- Analytical Thinking
- Business Product Knowledge

Salary Range: $85,000.00 to $150,000.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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