Performance Test Engineer
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes some sections: "Your opportunity" intro, then description of SCS, then role description, then "What You’re Good At" (list of responsibilities), then "What you have" (requirements/qualifications/skills), then "You Demonstrate These Behaviors" (behaviors), then "What’s in it for you" (benefits). Also there is mention of "Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach" but not specific schedule. So we could include a Schedule section? It says we should not create Schedule unless posting actually states them. It mentions Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach, but not specific schedule details like "full-time", "remote", etc. It's vague. Probably better not to include Schedule.
Pay: not mentioned.
Thus sections: About the role (maybe intro), Responsibilities (What You’re Good At), Requirements (What you have), Qualifications (maybe overlapping), Skills (maybe separate), Benefits (What’s in it for you). Also maybe "Behaviors" could be part of Skills or Qualifications? But we need to follow headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can include those that have content.
We need to decide what goes where. The posting includes:
- Intro: "Your opportunity In Schwab Cybersecurity Services (SCS), Office of CISO, we provide platforms, services, and security operations capabilities which enable the firm to produce successful client and shareholder outcomes securely and safely. Securing our IT assets, data, and access to applications is the core of who we are and what we do. We ensure only the appropriate entities have access to IT resources and that we adhere to best practices and standards to ensure a safe and compliant environment is maintained. The SCS QA (Quality Assurance) team within Identity and Access Management (IAM) has an opening for a QA Engineer, focusing on performance testing. This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills who can contribute in a highly collaborative culture and Agile team environment. The QA Staff Engineer is responsible for test estimates, test strategies, test automation and scripts, functional and regression testing for large, complex IAM platforms including Provisioning/De-provisioning, Directory Services, Highly Privileged Accounts, Access Governance, Authentication, Single Sign On, Analytics, API Management and Certifications. Additionally, performance testing will include other cyber-related areas including Network and Endpoint Security."
That could be About the role.
- Responsibilities: "What You’re Good At" list: many bullet-like sentences. We'll turn each into
- .
- Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: "What you have" list includes degree, years experience, etc. Also "You Demonstrate These Behaviors" list includes behaviors. Could split: Requirements (education, experience), Qualifications (certifications?), Skills (technical skills). But we need to avoid duplication. Let's parse "What you have":
BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related degree
6-8 years of experience in QA for enterprise applications including functional and automated testing experience.
6+ years of direct experience in performance testing using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner including script development, maintenance and execution
2-4 years of experience with script development such as with PowerShell, Python or other scripting language.
Direct experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) or other Cyber Security technologies strongly preferred
Strong Data Analytical ability.
Experience with SQL, Java, C# and Oracle
Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
Experience in using JIRA, and other collaboration tools is highly desirable.
Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, both oral and written is required
Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills
Self-starter: takes initiative and can work independently
Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail. Flexible and adaptable working with various business domains
CISSP or other related certifications are preferred.
That's a mix of requirements, qualifications, skills. We could treat all as Requirements (or Qualifications). But we need to follow instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? But we have separate headings allowed. We could include Requirements (education + experience), Qualifications (certifications, behaviors), Skills (technical skills). However many items overlap.
Better to have: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (includes education, experience, certifications), Skills (technical and soft skills), Benefits.
But we also have "You Demonstrate These Behaviors" which could be part of Skills or Requirements. Could include under Skills as soft skills.
Let's decide:
- About the role: intro paragraph.
- Responsibilities: list from "What You’re Good At".
- Requirements: education, years of experience, direct experience with IAM, CISSP preferred.
- Skills: technical skills (SQL, Java, C#, Oracle, JMeter, LoadRunner, PowerShell/Python, JIRA, etc.) plus soft skills (communication, collaboration, analytical, problem-solving, etc.) plus behaviors.
- Benefits: list from "What’s in it for you".
We must not repeat job title as heading. Already not.
We must not include Pay or Schedule.
We must use
for each section heading.
We must use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
Thus for About the role: we can have a
with the intro paragraph(s). Could be multiple paragraphs but we can combine.
For Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
then with each bullet.
For Requirements: Requirements
then with each bullet.
For Skills: Skills
then with each bullet.
For Benefits: Benefits
then with each bullet.
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's extract each bullet precisely.
From "What You’re Good At": list items (each sentence):
- Perform performance testing of platforms and applications
- Ability to conduct reviews of performance results in multiple environments.
- Proficient in utilization of performance engineering tools and scripting.
- Develop and maintain QA test plans to ensure major milestones, dependencies and critical paths are executed, as well as applying risk-based testing principles where appropriate.
- Troubleshoot test issues, record test results, track and prioritize defects, participate in product readiness and release cycle.
- Run and create necessary automation scripts and report test results.
- Be effective in participating at program, project and product related levels.
- Participate in technical governance and help negotiate overall product quality standards with development and business teams.
- Work within Schwab and with external vendors, both on and offshore QA teams to define environmental requirements, identify QA-related tools, develop and execute QA process and best practices for testing.
- Participates in Design Reviews, Requirements Ambiguity & Use Case Reviews, directs the test automation activities of the team, and completes Root Cause Analysis for any defect slippages.
- Provides overall QA status reporting and escalate issues/risks in a timely manner to Management and assist in resolution.
- Coordinates with impacted QA Domain leads for testing activities.
- Consults with business partners when needed for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) advice and counsel.
We need to keep each as separate - . Ensure punctuation.
From "What you have": list items:
- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related degree
- 6-8 years of experience in QA for enterprise applications including functional and automated testing experience.
- 6+ years of direct experience in performance testing using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner including script development, maintenance and execution
- 2-4 years of experience with script development such as with PowerShell, Python or other scripting language.
- Direct experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) or other Cyber Security technologies strongly preferred
- Strong Data Analytical ability.
- Experience with SQL, Java, C# and Oracle
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience in using JIRA, and other collaboration tools is highly desirable.
- Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, both oral and written is required
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills
- Self-starter: takes initiative and can work independently
- Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail. Flexible and adaptable working with various business domains
- CISSP or other related certifications are preferred.
We need to split into Requirements and Skills. Let's decide:
Requirements: education, years of experience, direct experience with IAM, CISSP preferred.
Skills: technical skills (SQL, Java, C#, Oracle, JMeter, LoadRunner, PowerShell/Python, JIRA, etc.) plus soft skills (communication, collaboration, analytical, problem-solving, etc.) plus behaviors.
But we also have "You Demonstrate These Behaviors" list:
- Disciplined: Highly disciplined in how resources are used; designs and champions ideas to drive efficiency
- Overcomes Barriers: Takes responsibility for addressing obstacles that hinder our people and our business
- Delivers Results: Delivers positive results regardless of circumstances, utilizing the right mix of analysis, judgment, agility and urgency
- Relationship Oriented: Builds trusted relationships with colleagues around the firm and across multiple levels of the organization
These could go under Skills as soft skills/behaviors.
Thus we need to allocate.
Let's define:
Requirements (
Requirements
):
- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related degree
- 6-8 years of experience in QA for enterprise applications including functional and automated testing experience.
- 6+ years of direct experience in performance testing using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner including script development, maintenance and execution
- 2-4 years of experience with script development such as with PowerShell, Python or other scripting language.
- Direct experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) or other Cyber Security technologies strongly preferred
- CISSP or other related certifications are preferred
Skills (Skills
):
- Strong Data Analytical ability.
- Experience with SQL, Java, C# and Oracle
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience in using JIRA, and other collaboration tools is highly desirable.
- Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, both oral and written is required
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills
- Self-starter: takes initiative and can work independently
- Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail. Flexible and adaptable working with various business domains
- Disciplined: Highly disciplined in how resources are used; designs and champions ideas to drive efficiency
- Overcomes Barriers: Takes responsibility for addressing obstacles that hinder our people and our business
- Delivers Results: Delivers positive results regardless of circumstances, utilizing the right mix of analysis, judgment, agility and urgency
- Relationship Oriented: Builds trusted relationships with colleagues around the firm and across multiple levels of the organization
But note some overlap: "Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail." and "Disciplined: Highly disciplined..." maybe duplicate but we keep as given.
Benefits (Benefits
):
From "What’s in it for you": list
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes some sections: "Your opportunity" intro, then description of SCS, then role description, then "What You’re Good At" (list of responsibilities), then "What you have" (requirements/qualifications/skills), then "You Demonstrate These Behaviors" (behaviors), then "What’s in it for you" (benefits). Also there is mention of "Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach" but not specific schedule. So we could include a Schedule section? It says we should not create Schedule unless posting actually states them. It mentions Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach, but not specific schedule details like "full-time", "remote", etc. It's vague. Probably better not to include Schedule. Pay: not mentioned. Thus sections: About the role (maybe intro), Responsibilities (What You’re Good At), Requirements (What you have), Qualifications (maybe overlapping), Skills (maybe separate), Benefits (What’s in it for you). Also maybe "Behaviors" could be part of Skills or Qualifications? But we need to follow headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can include those that have content. We need to decide what goes where. The posting includes: - Intro: "Your opportunity In Schwab Cybersecurity Services (SCS), Office of CISO, we provide platforms, services, and security operations capabilities which enable the firm to produce successful client and shareholder outcomes securely and safely. Securing our IT assets, data, and access to applications is the core of who we are and what we do. We ensure only the appropriate entities have access to IT resources and that we adhere to best practices and standards to ensure a safe and compliant environment is maintained. The SCS QA (Quality Assurance) team within Identity and Access Management (IAM) has an opening for a QA Engineer, focusing on performance testing. This position requires a self-motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills who can contribute in a highly collaborative culture and Agile team environment. The QA Staff Engineer is responsible for test estimates, test strategies, test automation and scripts, functional and regression testing for large, complex IAM platforms including Provisioning/De-provisioning, Directory Services, Highly Privileged Accounts, Access Governance, Authentication, Single Sign On, Analytics, API Management and Certifications. Additionally, performance testing will include other cyber-related areas including Network and Endpoint Security." That could be About the role. - Responsibilities: "What You’re Good At" list: many bullet-like sentences. We'll turn each into
for each section heading.
We must use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
Thus for About the role: we can have a
with the intro paragraph(s). Could be multiple paragraphs but we can combine.
For Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
then with each bullet.
For Requirements: Requirements
then with each bullet.
For Skills: Skills
then with each bullet.
For Benefits: Benefits
then with each bullet.
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's extract each bullet precisely.
From "What You’re Good At": list items (each sentence):
- Perform performance testing of platforms and applications
- Ability to conduct reviews of performance results in multiple environments.
- Proficient in utilization of performance engineering tools and scripting.
- Develop and maintain QA test plans to ensure major milestones, dependencies and critical paths are executed, as well as applying risk-based testing principles where appropriate.
- Troubleshoot test issues, record test results, track and prioritize defects, participate in product readiness and release cycle.
- Run and create necessary automation scripts and report test results.
- Be effective in participating at program, project and product related levels.
- Participate in technical governance and help negotiate overall product quality standards with development and business teams.
- Work within Schwab and with external vendors, both on and offshore QA teams to define environmental requirements, identify QA-related tools, develop and execute QA process and best practices for testing.
- Participates in Design Reviews, Requirements Ambiguity & Use Case Reviews, directs the test automation activities of the team, and completes Root Cause Analysis for any defect slippages.
- Provides overall QA status reporting and escalate issues/risks in a timely manner to Management and assist in resolution.
- Coordinates with impacted QA Domain leads for testing activities.
- Consults with business partners when needed for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) advice and counsel.
We need to keep each as separate - . Ensure punctuation.
From "What you have": list items:
- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related degree
- 6-8 years of experience in QA for enterprise applications including functional and automated testing experience.
- 6+ years of direct experience in performance testing using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner including script development, maintenance and execution
- 2-4 years of experience with script development such as with PowerShell, Python or other scripting language.
- Direct experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) or other Cyber Security technologies strongly preferred
- Strong Data Analytical ability.
- Experience with SQL, Java, C# and Oracle
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience in using JIRA, and other collaboration tools is highly desirable.
- Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, both oral and written is required
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills
- Self-starter: takes initiative and can work independently
- Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail. Flexible and adaptable working with various business domains
- CISSP or other related certifications are preferred.
We need to split into Requirements and Skills. Let's decide:
Requirements: education, years of experience, direct experience with IAM, CISSP preferred.
Skills: technical skills (SQL, Java, C#, Oracle, JMeter, LoadRunner, PowerShell/Python, JIRA, etc.) plus soft skills (communication, collaboration, analytical, problem-solving, etc.) plus behaviors.
But we also have "You Demonstrate These Behaviors" list:
- Disciplined: Highly disciplined in how resources are used; designs and champions ideas to drive efficiency
- Overcomes Barriers: Takes responsibility for addressing obstacles that hinder our people and our business
- Delivers Results: Delivers positive results regardless of circumstances, utilizing the right mix of analysis, judgment, agility and urgency
- Relationship Oriented: Builds trusted relationships with colleagues around the firm and across multiple levels of the organization
These could go under Skills as soft skills/behaviors.
Thus we need to allocate.
Let's define:
Requirements (
Requirements
):
- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related degree
- 6-8 years of experience in QA for enterprise applications including functional and automated testing experience.
- 6+ years of direct experience in performance testing using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner including script development, maintenance and execution
- 2-4 years of experience with script development such as with PowerShell, Python or other scripting language.
- Direct experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) or other Cyber Security technologies strongly preferred
- CISSP or other related certifications are preferred
Skills (Skills
):
- Strong Data Analytical ability.
- Experience with SQL, Java, C# and Oracle
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience in using JIRA, and other collaboration tools is highly desirable.
- Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, both oral and written is required
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills
- Self-starter: takes initiative and can work independently
- Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail. Flexible and adaptable working with various business domains
- Disciplined: Highly disciplined in how resources are used; designs and champions ideas to drive efficiency
- Overcomes Barriers: Takes responsibility for addressing obstacles that hinder our people and our business
- Delivers Results: Delivers positive results regardless of circumstances, utilizing the right mix of analysis, judgment, agility and urgency
- Relationship Oriented: Builds trusted relationships with colleagues around the firm and across multiple levels of the organization
But note some overlap: "Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail." and "Disciplined: Highly disciplined..." maybe duplicate but we keep as given.
Benefits (Benefits
):
From "What’s in it for you": list
for prose. Thus for About the role: we can have a
with the intro paragraph(s). Could be multiple paragraphs but we can combine. For Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
then- with each bullet.
For Requirements:
- . Ensure punctuation.
From "What you have": list items:
- BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related degree
- 6-8 years of experience in QA for enterprise applications including functional and automated testing experience.
- 6+ years of direct experience in performance testing using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner including script development, maintenance and execution
- 2-4 years of experience with script development such as with PowerShell, Python or other scripting language.
- Direct experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) or other Cyber Security technologies strongly preferred
- Strong Data Analytical ability.
- Experience with SQL, Java, C# and Oracle
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience in using JIRA, and other collaboration tools is highly desirable.
- Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, both oral and written is required
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills
- Self-starter: takes initiative and can work independently
- Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail. Flexible and adaptable working with various business domains
- CISSP or other related certifications are preferred.
We need to split into Requirements and Skills. Let's decide:
Requirements: education, years of experience, direct experience with IAM, CISSP preferred.
Skills: technical skills (SQL, Java, C#, Oracle, JMeter, LoadRunner, PowerShell/Python, JIRA, etc.) plus soft skills (communication, collaboration, analytical, problem-solving, etc.) plus behaviors.
But we also have "You Demonstrate These Behaviors" list:
- Disciplined: Highly disciplined in how resources are used; designs and champions ideas to drive efficiency
- Overcomes Barriers: Takes responsibility for addressing obstacles that hinder our people and our business
- Delivers Results: Delivers positive results regardless of circumstances, utilizing the right mix of analysis, judgment, agility and urgency
- Relationship Oriented: Builds trusted relationships with colleagues around the firm and across multiple levels of the organization
These could go under Skills as soft skills/behaviors.
Thus we need to allocate.
Let's define:
Requirements (
Requirements
): - BA/BS Degree in Computer Science or related degree - 6-8 years of experience in QA for enterprise applications including functional and automated testing experience. - 6+ years of direct experience in performance testing using tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner including script development, maintenance and execution - 2-4 years of experience with script development such as with PowerShell, Python or other scripting language. - Direct experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) or other Cyber Security technologies strongly preferred - CISSP or other related certifications are preferred Skills (Skills
): - Strong Data Analytical ability. - Experience with SQL, Java, C# and Oracle - Excellent collaboration and communication skills. - Experience in using JIRA, and other collaboration tools is highly desirable. - Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, both oral and written is required - Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills - Self-starter: takes initiative and can work independently - Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail. Flexible and adaptable working with various business domains - Disciplined: Highly disciplined in how resources are used; designs and champions ideas to drive efficiency - Overcomes Barriers: Takes responsibility for addressing obstacles that hinder our people and our business - Delivers Results: Delivers positive results regardless of circumstances, utilizing the right mix of analysis, judgment, agility and urgency - Relationship Oriented: Builds trusted relationships with colleagues around the firm and across multiple levels of the organization But note some overlap: "Well-organized and disciplined with high attention to detail." and "Disciplined: Highly disciplined..." maybe duplicate but we keep as given. Benefits (Benefits
): From "What’s in it for you": list
Requirements
then- with each bullet.
For Skills:
Skills
then- with each bullet.
For Benefits:
Benefits
then- with each bullet.
We need to ensure we preserve all substantive information. Let's extract each bullet precisely.
From "What You’re Good At": list items (each sentence):
- Perform performance testing of platforms and applications
- Ability to conduct reviews of performance results in multiple environments.
- Proficient in utilization of performance engineering tools and scripting.
- Develop and maintain QA test plans to ensure major milestones, dependencies and critical paths are executed, as well as applying risk-based testing principles where appropriate.
- Troubleshoot test issues, record test results, track and prioritize defects, participate in product readiness and release cycle.
- Run and create necessary automation scripts and report test results.
- Be effective in participating at program, project and product related levels.
- Participate in technical governance and help negotiate overall product quality standards with development and business teams.
- Work within Schwab and with external vendors, both on and offshore QA teams to define environmental requirements, identify QA-related tools, develop and execute QA process and best practices for testing.
- Participates in Design Reviews, Requirements Ambiguity & Use Case Reviews, directs the test automation activities of the team, and completes Root Cause Analysis for any defect slippages.
- Provides overall QA status reporting and escalate issues/risks in a timely manner to Management and assist in resolution.
- Coordinates with impacted QA Domain leads for testing activities.
- Consults with business partners when needed for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) advice and counsel.
We need to keep each as separate