Qa Automation Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Innovate, Ideate, and build a strong engineering mindset culture, working on engineering opportunities to accelerate QE efficiency.
• Identify and implement best practices, methodologies, and tools to streamline quality engineering processes, increase efficiency, and reduce manual effort. - Spearhead the adoption of test automation, continuous integration, and continuous deployment practices to enhance the QEs agility and responsiveness.
• Explore and evaluate new tools, frameworks, and methodologies to enhance the platform's capabilities and drive innovation
• Develop and contribute to the strategic vision for the quality engineering platform, aligning it with the organization's overall business objectives.
• Identify and prioritize key initiatives to enhance the platform's capabilities, performance, resiliency and scalability
• Develop a strong relationship with global teams to be able to roll out the Quality Engineering tools and frameworks (Automation frameworks, Test Data Management, DevOps etc. ) and participate in adoption and scaling
• Collaborate with QE practice delivery & other teams to ensure the quality engineering platform supports the organization's evolving needs.
• Continuously monitor and analyse platform metrics, identify areas for improvement, and implement optimization strategies.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and career development opportunities to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Leverage SLGS position as Microcosm of SLF and establish a bridge between multiple Business units including Asia

Preferred candidate profile

• 10-16 Years of IT experience
• QE engineering skills including Test Automation Framework Development, Developing /Supporting testing use cases using GenAI, AI/ML to increase efficiency
• Modern Engineering Principles (CI/CD, Component, Contract, Integration test level suites)
• Programming Languages (Java, Python, Terraform etc.)
• Test Management Tools (JIRA, qTest, etc.)
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Performance Testing, Chaos Engineering
• Security Testing (Nice to Have)
• Mobile Testing (Nice to Have)
• Web Services Testing (REST/SOAP)
• Cloud Testing (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Agile and Scrum Methodologies
• Test Data Management
• Test Environment Management