Senior QA Lead- Automation

You are a skilled and experienced Senior QA Lead Automation Engineer with 10 years of experience, specializing in Functional and Automation Testing. Join our team and contribute your expertise in Selenium / BDD Cucumber framework, agile methodologies, and banking domain knowledge. In this role, you will work in an agile environment, following best practices of agile Scrum. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand application/domain requirements, write test cases, execute tests, and manage defects. Analyze requirements, seek clarifications, contribute to good acceptance criteria, estimate, and be committed. Your responsibilities include creating smart and adequate test plans, writing test cases, and automating test executions to ensure acceptance criteria is met. Develop automated regression test suites for continued assurance of product quality. Review test designs, test plans, and test cases to ensure coverage. Create QA metrics to measure QA automation effectiveness. Perform UAT tests mimicking end-to-end user scenarios, validate production by running sanity tests and data validations. Bring innovative solutions to reduce operational risks by automating mundane tasks across SDLC. Work closely with agile teams to ensure testing aligns with project timelines and requirements. Apply banking domain knowledge to testing processes and execute STLC process with precision and efficiency. Required skills include conducting functional and automation testing using Selenium / BDD Cucumber framework, utilizing test management tools like JIRA, and expertise in QA automation frameworks for functional, regression, and performance tests. Strong experience in testing enterprise integrations through RESTful APIs, Kafka messaging, and familiarity with Authentication, Authorization, and Security. Experience in Test Management tools like JIRA, strong banking domain knowledge, proficiency in STLC process with excellent testing skills, and good communication skills are essential for this role. Collaborate with various teams on testing activities, demonstrate a collaborative mindset, self-driven approach, and take ownership of tasks.,