Software Developer in Test at Charles Schwab Inc.
Austin, TX
$125,008–$138,008
Jul 23, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software developer in test role focused on quality assurance for customer-facing retail onboarding web applications at a large financial services firm. Day-to-day work covers building and maintaining test automation frameworks, manual and automated testing across multiple projects, minor bug fixes, production support, and contributing to deployment and release decisions. Best suited to engineers with hands-on Selenium or WebDriver.IO experience and solid object-oriented programming skills who are comfortable in agile, fast-moving teams.
Mid level · 2+ years · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).
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Why we read it this way (9)
The job title is 'Software Developer in Test' — a QA/test automation role with some minor development duties (bug fixes, production support). Primary day-to-day work is test automation and quality assurance, hence 15-1253; 15-1252 is a plausible runner-up given the coding depth required.
Location is not specified in the posting beyond 'on site in the specified location(s)'; Charles Schwab's primary engineering hubs include Westlake, TX and San Francisco, CA, but no city is named here.
The 2-year experience requirement is tied specifically to test automation using Selenium/WebDriver.IO/Protractor with Cucumber, which also serves as the overall role-level minimum experience signal.
The test framework requirement lists Ruby, Cucumber, Specflow, TestNG, NUnit, and XUnit as alternatives within a single 'one or more' gate; Ruby is used as the primary name with the others captured as alternatives.
The test library requirement (Protractor, Selenium, WebDriver.io) is collapsed into a single skill with Selenium as primary, per the 'or' interchangeability; the 2-year years demanded applies to this gate.
Angular and MVC are listed together under 'familiarity with web application frameworks'; Angular is emitted as the named technology. MVC is a pattern/methodology rather than a specific named tool and is omitted per the generic-concepts rule.
CI/CD and Bamboo appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
No salary figures are provided; the posting notes eligibility for bonus/incentive in addition to salary.
Degree requirement is listed as 'BA/BS or equivalent experience,' so no hard degree gate is set.
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