Automation Lead

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The candidate will lead Test Automation design, development and innovation initiatives for Core Banking and Satellite applications, managing a team of test automation, SDETs and Load and performance engineers. The candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing Test Automation frameworks and solutions using open source and conventional tools on on-prem and cloud platforms. Candidate should have very good understanding on Software Engineering, CICD, cloud and development tool stack.

Functional / Technical

• Design test automation framework and solutions for cloud and on-prem platforms, covering UI, api automation, service virtualization, CICD and test tool (JIRA, XRAY) integration
• Lead and manage test automation teams to ensure automation initiatives and delivery are aligned with business and technical goals
• Work with project stakeholders in the core banking and satellite applications domains to gather automation and nonfunctional testing requirements and define goals and solutions for the automation teams
• Drive the automation teams to pursue the latest tech stacks and industry standard practices
• Maintain automation and performance test repositories, ensuring seamless test execution and reporting integrated with the deployment pipelines
• Promote a culture and desire for innovation and consistent improvements in the test automation and performance testing areas
• Review and track artefacts produced by automation teams
• Define test strategy, automation approach, environment and test data management plans across applications, for big and small projects
• Work collaboratively with various project, business and operations teams to achieve goals
• Status reporting and ability to proactively raise issues, risks and recommend optimal solutions

Client / Stakeholder Management (internal & external)

• Stake holder management – working closely with senior stakeholders within IT and Business to drive test automation deliveries, best practices, innovation and automation
• Work with IT risk to actively drive the risk culture within and across teams
• Ensure awareness, involvement and support from the key stakeholders and participants by building strong project teams and maintaining robust communication on the project status throughout its life cycle

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations
• Take responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely and drive all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards

RANK APPLICABLE TO THE POSITION

• Director

SKILLS REQUIREMENTS OF THE POSITION

Professional and Technical

Professional

• Minimum years of experience in driving Test Automation strategies and technical solutions
• Private Banking experience including in Temenos T24 Core banking preferred
• Experience and Ability to provide technical solutions and adapt to latest tech stacks and innovations
• Expertise in working on Agile methodologies such as Scrum / Kanban / SAFE
• Experience in Automation and driving Automation strategy (Selenium, Playwright, STEP & other industry standard tools)

Technical

Must Have :

• Experience with Test Automation frameworks and tool stack like Cucumber, API Test Automation, Selenium, Playwright
• Expertise in Java
• Good understanding of cloud technologies (Azure preferred)
• Proficient with at least one CI CD tool stack (Gitlab preferred)
• Proficient with Kubernetes and Docker technologies
• Good understanding of Linux
• Good understanding on software engineering best practices, clean code policies, branching strategies, release processes, versioning etc
• Good understanding of streaming platforms like Confluent Kafka/ IBM MQ etc
• Experience in Load and Performance testing with JMeter, K6, Playwright
• Experience in Observability and monitoring tools like Grafana, Dyna trace, Splunk
• Exposure on any Core banking solutions (T24 preferred)

Personal and Social

• Excellent communication & Stakeholder management skills
• Good work ethics
• Good problem-solving abilities
• Good team player
• Good service attitude
• Systematic and meticulous
• Ability to lead teams effectively across locations

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