Summer Intern

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston As an employee of the Boston Fed, you will work to promote sound growth and financial stability in New England and the nation. You will contribute to communities, the region, and the nation by conducting economic research, participating in monetary policy-making, supervising certain financial institutions, providing financial services and payments, playing a leadership role in the payments industry, and supporting economic well-being in communities through a variety of efforts. The Boston Fed is one of 12 Reserve Banks and we serve all or parts of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Our mission is accomplished through our Bank's values: diversity, equity and inclusion, innovation, integrity, and leadership.

This job is eligible for a hybrid working schedule.

This position is part of the Bank's Internship/Co-op Program which is offered to students who are currently enrolled in graduate and undergraduate studies. This program identifies talented and qualified candidates who could potentially fill professional job openings in the Bank. For this position, residency in 1st district (Boston Fed) will be required.

Position Contributions-

The Federal Reserve is developing a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow service. This service will help enable financial institutions provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of a new mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that will be transformative to the payments landscape in the United States.

The Senior Salesforce Quality Intern will help the team in testing key elements of our customer facing support and enablement platform. The Salesforce testing team role is to work with Business partners and Development team to deliver defect free customer experiences.

You’ll be part of highly visible Salesforce initiatives across the organization including testing applications on the Force.com platform and supporting integrations with Salesforce and FedNow.. You will work alongside Salesforce Administrators, business owners, and other members of the FedNow Technology Team. 

  Responsibilities:

 Testing multiple systems with Salesforce, including internal proprietary and third party applications 

• Analyze functional and technical requirements, mapping documents and transforming them into test plans.
• Help in creating detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Participate in requirements, design and review meetings.
• Create, maintain, and execute test cases/tests scripts (manual and automated).
• Analyze test results to ensure correct functionality and interact with the Development and Product teams for resolution of defects.
• Communicate daily progress, issues and risks.
• Support and participate in providing value added feedback to the QA team, including improving QA processes, automation, procedures, and standards.
• Clearly communicate any obstacles to raise awareness and avoid project impediments and overall project timeline disruption.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Understanding of computer science fundamentals, software development life cycle and best practices.
• Knowledge of any programming languages such as Java and framework like Selenium.
• Analytic and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated individual with the ability to prioritize and manage changing priorities.
• Good written and oral communication abilities.
• Good time-management skills.
• Preferably a rising junior, senior or a graduate.

MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION

• Pursuing Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Preferably a senior or graduate student

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Temporary

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

No

Job Category

Internship

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.