About MCU:
At Municipal Credit Union, we believe that an incredible culture helps create a happy and motivated team that works hard to achieve the best results for themselves and their members. For more than 100 years, MCU has provided affordable financial products and convenient services to a membership base that is now comprised of over 600,000 individuals. With each new generation we have the pleasure of interacting with, we maintain the credit union promise of people helping people.
Our Mission:
To help hard-working New Yorkers build better tomorrows
Our Vision:
Be New York's most loved financial institution by helping our members build their best financial futures
Overview: The Software Developer QA/QC independently evaluates development work completed by Software Developers and Senior Software Developers to ensure solutions meet approved requirements and MCU standards for functionality, security, performance, reliability, maintainability, documentation, and production readiness. The role reviews code and technical designs, coordinates and performs testing, validates defect remediation, and serves as a quality gate throughout the software development lifecycle while working collaboratively with developers, business analysts, stakeholders, and end users.
Responsibilities:
Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Review business requirements, acceptance criteria, technical designs, and development deliverables for completeness, traceability, accuracy, and testability.
- Perform independent peer reviews of source code, APIs, integrations, microservices, widgets, automation, database objects, reports, and application workflows developed by Software Developers and Senior Software Developers.
- Validate adherence to MCU development standards, software architecture, coding conventions, source control practices, security requirements, and documentation standards.
- Develop, execute, and maintain risk-based test strategies, test plans, test cases, test scripts, test data, and regression test suites.
- Create and execute manual and automated test cases; identify, document, and track defects using defect‑tracking tools
- Collaborate with engineering teams to identify, document, and resolve defects early in the development lifecycle
- Perform functional, integration, system, regression, negative, security, performance, and production-readiness testing, as appropriate to the change.
- Confirm that approved requirements and acceptance criteria have been implemented and that test evidence supports the results.
- Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects; communicate findings clearly; and verify remediation through retesting before release.
- Validate data integrity, SQL logic, interfaces, error handling, logging, exception management, monitoring, and auditability.
- Review authentication, authorization, encryption, sensitive-data handling, input validation, dependency risks, and other secure coding controls.
- Assess application performance, scalability, reliability, supportability, and maintainability and escalate material risks or unresolved quality concerns.
- Validate deployment packages, configuration changes, release notes, implementation plans, rollback procedures, and production-readiness checklists.
- Review automated test coverage and collaborate with developers to improve unit, integration and regression testing.
- Maintain objective evidence of reviews, test execution, defects, approvals, exceptions, and release decisions in approved systems of record.
- Apply appropriate QA approaches across Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall development methodologies
- Collaborate with Business Analysts, developers, stakeholders, and end users to clarify requirements, expected results, and acceptance criteria.
- Support User Acceptance Testing while maintaining clear separation between technical quality validation and business acceptance.
- Produce and communicate quality metrics, including defect trends, escaped defects, rework, test coverage, and release-readiness status.
- Recommend improvements to coding, review, testing, documentation, and release processes to reduce defects and improve delivery quality.
- Follow standardized methods and procedures used for efficient and prompt handling of all development requests.
- Adhere to all regulatory compliance training inclusive of BSA/AML/OFAC and overall BSA/AML/OFAC compliance.
- Lead efforts to continuously refine QA processes, incorporating feedback from retrospectives and post-release reviews
- Perform other related duties as requested and special projects as assigned.
- Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, objectivity, and the ability to provide constructive technical feedback.
- Maintain the highest ethical standards.
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle practices, quality assurance, quality control, risk-based testing, defect management, and release validation.
- Proficiency reviewing .NET applications and object-oriented code using C# or VB.NET; familiarity with ASP.NET, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, or jQuery.
- Experience testing RESTful APIs, SOAP or web services, integrations, microservices, and distributed application workflows.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and Microsoft SQL Server, including validation of queries, stored procedures, database objects, data integrity, and SSIS packages.
- Experience with source control, pull requests, branching practices, code review tools, integrated development environments, and Azure DevOps.
- Experience with tools such as Postman, Selenium and Playwright
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, application deployment, configuration management, rollback validation, and production-readiness controls.
- Knowledge of secure coding and application security concepts, including authentication, authorization, encryption, input validation, secrets management, and common web application risks.
- Ability to create clear test documentation, reproduce technical issues, evaluate remediation, and communicate risk to technical and business stakeholders.
- Ability to remain independent and objective when reviewing peer development work while maintaining collaborative working relationships.
- Knowledge of Symitar and related technologies such as PowerOn, SymXchange, SymConnect, OpCon, and ARCU is desirable.
- Experience with financial services applications, regulatory environments, performance testing, application monitoring, and AI-assisted development controls is desirable.
Why you'll be a good fit:
Our Core Values are an integral part of who we are and who we hire. By living our Core Values, every day, we continue to attract the best and brightest talent, achieve unsurpassed results and continuously challenge ourselves to be better than yesterday. These values are at the heart of our organization and within every teammate. To be a great fit, you’ll bring the following
Results - We are passionate about winning.
Agility - We proactively anticipate, respond and pivot to ensure MCU wins.
Integrity - We operate with the highest ethical standards and highest degree of honesty.
Belonging - We cultivate a culture of inclusion and teamwork.
Ownership - We take personal responsibility and hold ourselves accountable for the results.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
The pay range for this position is between $81,700-134,730 annually. Actual base pay offered may vary depending on a number of factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Employees in this position may also be eligible for a discretionary bonus, 401(k) with an 6% employer match per pay period. Benefits for this position include Medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance, flexible paid time off and 11 paid holidays annually.
Municipal Credit Union (MCU) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Municipal Credit Union provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
We are committed to hiring, training, cultivating, promoting, and celebrating an environment where we have a welcoming and fulfilling place for all people to call home. Diversity of race, thought, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, religion, and disability will empower us to thrive as individuals, as teams, and as an organization.
