Senior Automation Engineer, VP

Quality Assurance (QA) is responsible for ensuring testing strategies, plans and deliverables are executed for all applications and programmes of work within their domain.

Work includes:

• Designing and conducting testing procedures and frameworks to verify software and other technical products to ensure expected functional performance
• Investigating instances where software and technical products do not perform as expected
• Designing and conducting quality assurance practises to support business development activities
• Driving the adoption of recognised best practice and policy and contributes to the ongoing improvement of methodologies and assets for the business
• Working with their counterparts across the business to raise the standard of QA across the bank
• Recording of defects and the collation of metrics and KPI information for reporting purposes Testing disciplines include: Performance Testing, Test Automation, Test Processes, Testing Products

Your key responsibilities

What Youll Do:

• Accountable for engineering and leading a function in Corporate Bank Technology
• Deliver state of the art solutions and be a hands-on technologist
• Implement leading technology advancements in the industry
• Maintain hygiene, risk, control, and stability at the core of every delivery
• Manage the software development life cycle (SDLC) of software components all the way to production, including helping support the application to resolve production issues with appropriate triaging
• Partner with UI/UX Design Team, Architects, Business Analysts, and Stakeholders situated in multiple regions and time-zones; at varying capacity to understand requirements

How Youll Lead (VP and above):

• You will lead the testing of components & features in an Agile pod, driving the overall test strategy and execution, while also partnering with the other engineers and analysts to groom and refine requirements to define relevant test cases and scenarios
• As a QA & Testing lead engineer, you will also partner with the product team, enterprise infrastructure architects and engineers in test to optimize the regression suite with focus on test automation and integration testing with interfaces for penny testing while complying with all control frameworks
• Partner with enterprise risk team and production services to ensure continuous adherence to technology policies including technology roadmap compliance

Your skills and experience

Skills Youll Need:

• Several years of experience developing and/or testing Java based Microservices (preferably using Spring Boot framework) in a cloud environment (preferably Google Cloud)
• Several years of experience with testing frameworks - Selenium, Karate, and tools such as Cucumber
• Several years of backend testing experience for databases, APIs using SoapUI, Postman and UI testing experience for React components
• Several years of experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools such as Jenkins
• Automation experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using Cucumber

Skills That Will Help You Excel

• Bachelors or Masters (preferred) degree in the field of computer science and/or technology
• Exposure to Splunk/SQL for data analysis
• Full understanding of SDLC lifecycle for software delivery including engaging with production support personnel for defect triaging and resolution

Qualification

• Bachelors degree(Preferably in science, computers, information technology)