Lead QE Automation | Testing

• Lead automation testing

Job Responsibilities (JR) : 6 – 8 Areas

Oversee and guide automation planning and execution activities across all delivery tracks for large product(s) over multiple releases

Manage an overall team of 5-10 and vendor efforts to manage the overall automated testing in a fast-paced agile environment

Draw up automation test strategies and plans; Automate component, System / Integration test cases with data-driven approach

Identifying, generating, and setting up of test data to support the tests and manage dynamically for regression tests

Act as an effective interface between the development, testing teams and management

Drive automation test planning and test data generation and execution

Build and manage a strong automation team

Report against KPIs and execution status

Total Yrs of experience:

8-15 years overall testing experience with a minimum 5 years’ experience with automation in UI, API, building testing frameworks, with at least 2-3 year of recent mobile testing experience

Education:

B.Tech Computer Science or any other stream

Actionable (4-6)

Hands on expertise in test tools / languages – Automation: Appium, Python / Javascript, Device Farm: BrowserStack / HeadSpin, Monitoring / Reporting tools:e.g., Grafana, Test management: zephyr / Jira

Experience in Mobile Native app, API, Web and Batch automation testing and building frameworks from scratch

Ability to operate in a CI / CD-enabled environment, Git, Jenkins and contribute to the CI / CD pipeline

Working experience of DNS, web, application server, messaging queues, event-driven platforms. Experience working on one or more of the Cloud platform AWS / GCP / Azure

Good understanding of NoSQL and SQL DBs.

Deep understanding of software testing methods

Good understanding of large and complex solutions / architecture

Experience with automating non-functional requirement such as usability, accessibility, multi-lingual is an additional advantage

Understanding of Retail Banking / Financial Services domain is an added advantage

A self-starter who can deal with ambiguity and drives standards, tooling, and continuous improvement within the team

Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way to the team as well as Management

Educational Qualifications

Key Skills

Major Stakeholders(intra team and cross functional stakeholders, who would need to be interacted with for discharging duties)