Test Automation Engineer

Role Description

Our Investments agile teams at Deutsche Bank - Private Bank (TDI) develop and maintain applications for securities business of Private Customers. Changes are generally announced on short notice due to regulatory requirements or time to market challenges. Quality and stability has priority together with time to market.

By working in an Agile DevOps model, acting a pilot for Investments and actively improving the model, we achieve very high quality while continuously delivering value to our clients. Located in Germany and India, we work closely together using agile and virtual collaboration techniques and our teams diversity to reach our goals of continuous deployment, process improvement and internalizing engineering know how.

As a Quality and Testing Engineer you will closely work together with business and operation units and bring functional testing, test management and test automation skills to enforce the development team within a Squad. You will extensively make use and apply test automation concepts and practices in the context of Deutsche Banks digitalization journey.

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Flexible working arrangements
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your Key Roles & Responsibilities

• You are involved in the Software Development Lifecycle starting from analyzing requirements, maintaining test cases, developing test automation features and testing software - continuously improving these topics.
• Develop/ support test automation strategy for large complex projects in AGILE methodology.
• Develop / support non-functional testing automation strategy for large complex projects in AGILE methodology.
• Contribute to team agile planning activities and backlog prioritization and management.
• Collaborates with product line stakeholders to understand and develop strategies, frameworks relating to their emerging demands.
• Driving innovation/adoption of Industry practices through investigation/institutionalization of new tools/methods/standards.
• Ensures that testing activities are being conducted in accordance with the testing strategy and plan.
• Perform and achieve in sprint testing team and release goals.
• Create test documents like: Test Plan, Test Risk Assessments, and Test Results and make sure that they are reviewed and approved by appropriate stakeholders.
• Participate in estimation of User Stories in Story points.
• Create, Automate and Execute test cases to cover all user stories acceptance criteria and honor timely deliveries.
• Increase the test coverage and test speed by automating all possible test cases.
• Create and develop test automation frameworks.
• Integrate test automation framework into CI/CD pipeline.
• Ensure test flakiness is at a minimum.
• Participate and help in knowledge transfer sessions when necessary.
• Defects submission, monitoring, and retesting
• Keep demo sessions to prove acceptance criteria are met.
• Coordinate the preparation of test environments.
• Define and create all test data / test data generators needed for the tests.
• Maintain regression test pack.
• Align with dev team to understand the integration with different systems to execute System Integration Testing
• Provide regular status reporting to scrum team.
• Verify entry/exit criteria for all SIT, UAT phases.
• You actively participate and contribute into the sprint activities and ceremonies e.g. daily stand-up, Sprint planning, retrospectives, refinements etc.
• You collaborate with other team members to achieve the sprint objectives

Your Skills and Experience:

• Strong experience in requirements analysis for test case creation and test execution of user stories using tools like Quality Centre/ALM, Confluence , Jira ,SOAP UI, Filetransfer, SQL developer,
• Strong experience in development of Test Automation features usingUFT (unified functional testing) and/ or Selenium with Java
• Experience in API testing is a must. Experience in Postman is an additional benefit.
• Open for manual testing for at least a year in parallel to identifying automation candidates.
• Individual contributor with an attitude to learn and deliver.
• Pro-active team player with good communication skills as well as good English language skills.
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM environment including agile tooling and methodology together with Knowledge of investment business and its operations.