Automation QA Engineer, AVP

Job Title: Automation QA Engineer

Corporate Title: AVP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

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 practices to support business development activities
• Driving the adoption of recognized 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

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Java and testing frameworks like Cucumber BDD.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to understand application features and create robust, comprehensive automation suite.
• Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) to ensure continuous testing and deployment.
• Develop and execute performance, load, and stress testing strategies to ensure application reliability and scalability.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to ensure test code quality and best practices.
• Analyze test results, provide detailed reports, and work to improve test coverage, traceability, and efficiency.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging testing technologies and methodologies to continuously improve the testing process.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in test automation.
• Strong proficiency in Java and experience with automation frameworks like Serenity BDD Cucumber, Gatling etc.
• Hands-on experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), CI/CD tools (e.g.Jenkins), and build tools (e.g. Gradle).
• Experience in testing RESTful APIs and web services.
• Experience in using messaging queues like MQ, streaming platforms like Kafka.
• Familiarity with database testing, including SQL queries and data validation in RDBMS, Big Data.
• Knowledge of BDD/TDD methodologies and tools like Cucumber or JBehave.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.