Entry Level Java Software Engineer Jobs in Irving, TX

Job Description
Overview of the Role
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients' best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.
Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We'll enable growth and progress together.
The Digital Software Engineer Senior Analyst (SDET) is a Technology/ Engineering role involving both development and Testing. As a member of the SCRUM team, you will be delivering Customer facing Banking and/or Credit Card features on digital channels such as Browser and Mobile. You will be involved in all stages of the Agile SDLC cycle. It includes but not limited to (a) Requirement analysis: Grooming of user stories, Story pointing, decomposing big stories into smaller stories and define acceptance criteria. (b) Design Review: Reviewing screens, flows, features, and customer communications (emails, SMS's, notifications, PDF documents) and making sure that they are consistent with user story acceptance criteria (c) Software development: Developing, configuring and debugging applications comprising of web and mobile frontend and Micro services. (d) Validations: Creating automated and manual test scripts on BDD (Behavior Based Development) framework, executing test scripts. Identifying, triaging and fixing any defects. Conditioning and maintaining the test data. (e) Artifact Ownership: Creating and maintaining testing artifacts such as Test plans and Exit reports and maintaining traceability as per SDLC guidelines. Maintaining SDLC hygiene involving stories. Test cases and defects. Ensuring that no untested code goes out to production. (f) SDLC Process and Standards: Adhering to ADA (Americans with Disability Act) Guidelines, participating in retrospectives, process improvement workshops, audits and performing root cause analysis. (g) Postproduction support: Supporting the technical check outs during release go live and postproduction activities.
Responsibilities

• Turn tech stack and application design into code on multiple development platforms (e.g. iOS, Android, web/Angular, Java spring boot services).
• Ability to use AI tools like Copilot for code generation, refactoring, and debugging.
• Develop and maintain BDD (Behavior Driven Development) automated and manual scripts in a code repository. Execute them and maintain test results in a test management tool for further reporting and establishing traceability. Create Jenkins jobs and plug in to CI-CD pipeline.
• Experience using AI tools accelerate unit tests, API scaffolding, Angular components, and Spring Boot boilerplate.
• Actively participate in the entire software development cycle involving development, integration and E2E testing in a CI/CD environment (RTC, Jenkins, RLM). Automate and enable shift left.
• Accountable for development, design, construction, testing and implementation and write secure, stable, testable and maintainable code.
• Continuously build, maintain documentation for your features and develop SME - Subject Matter Expertise in specific areas covering end to end flows, from digital to downstream to external partners.
• Analyze root causes for application issues and performance concerns. Collaborate within the scrum team, across other impacted downstream or upstream entities and external partners to solve the issues. Triage, track and report defects followed by prioritization, fix and closure.
• Adhere to SDLC control processes. Suggest and implement continuous improvements.
• Apart from functional validations to meet the acceptance criteria, validate Responsive Web Design and validate ADA Accessibility using screen readers such as NVDA, Voiceover and Talkback, code scan using Axe, perform CCA and be comfortable with other ADA tools and processes.
• Review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved ways for visibility ensuring your program stays on track or excels in meeting the organization objectives.
• Work in a fast-paced environment involving onshore offshore teams.

Education, Qualification & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or related fields in STEM or comparable work experience.
• 5-8 years of Full stack web / mobile Development and Testing experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with functional and API test automation using test automation frameworks based on Selenium, Appium, Postman and Jenkins pipeline.
• Preferable to have experience with cloud-based development platforms such as OpenShift.
• Working knowledge of JIRA, Zephyr, Confluence SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft office suit.
• Self-motivated and ready to take ownership.
• Excellent written, oral communication and interpersonal skills

Job Family Group:
Technology
Job Family:
Digital Software Engineering
Time Type:
Full time
Primary Location:
Irving Texas United States
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$107,120.00 - $160,680.00
In addition to salary, Citi's offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
Most Relevant Skills
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Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Jul 06, 2026
Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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