Quality Automation Specialist, VP

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This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

In this key role, you'll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models.

We'll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect-free deployment of customer value.

Working in a fast-paced environment, you'll benefit from an increased variety of work as well as excellent exposure working closely with a number of areas across the bank.

We're offering this role at vice president level.

What you'll do

As a Quality Automation Specialist, you'll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy, and integrity. You'll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value life cycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market, to guarantee that any defects are identified as early as possible.

It's a highly collaborative role in which you'll have the chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, with domain, platform, and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you'll be:

• Evolving predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions.
• Evolving processes to auto-generate test data that can be used across programmes and platforms.
• Collaborating with your team to define and refine the scope of manual and automated testing, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation, and artefacts.
• Making sure decisions are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management.
• Enabling the cross-skilling of colleagues with the skills and benefits of end-to-end automated testing.

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with experience of a minimum of fifteen years in automated testing, particularly in an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You'll be an innovative thinker who can identify opportunities and design solutions, coupled with the ability to develop complex automation code.

You'll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies and experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature.

We'll also look for you to have:

• Experience in end-to-end and automation testing using the latest tools as recommended by the enterprise tooling framework.
• Experience of working in AWS cloud technologies, Kafka, MongoDB, and Snowflake.
• Knowledge of Python, Selenium, robotic framework, ETL testing, and automating test documentation using Django or similar tools.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to management level colleagues.