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

What we ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• 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 responsibilities

• Design and Develop Test Automayion Strategies.
• Design and Develop Test Automation Data Strategy.
• 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.
• Groom new resources on Test Automation.
• Stay up to date with emerging testing technologies and methodologies to continuously improve the testing process.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ 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.
• Familiar with GCP.
• Familiar with Data Migration initiatives.
• Familiar with automating Digital Applications.
• Good to have experience to create and execute automation script for cloud native applications and microservice.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

How we ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs