Test Automation Lead

Responsibilities:

TCOE Test Engineering will work closely with the respective stakeholders across the GTO organisation to drive testing transformation as aligned with GTO's overall strategy.

Reporting to the TCOE Engineering Head, the candidate will ensure the right testing tools are put in place and the usage of these tools will bring about measurable improvements in overall testing productivity, effectiveness and efficiency.

The candidate is expected to fully support and comply with the organization's standards during his/her course of work.

. Leads and drives the test engineering strategies across bank, establishing practices covering automation, performance testing, GenAI and mobile testing.

. Defines and drives the implementation of the overall test automation strategy for TCOE

. Owns and maintains the Tosca and Open-Source test automation frameworks.

. Provides guidance and support for test delivery team in the effective use of testing tools

. Ensures knowledge management is effectively institutionalized, including maintaining and moderating the content of knowledge management tools.

. Establishes test automation best practices, standards and guidelines and drives its adoption

. Conducts regular reviews of test automation scripts to ensure compliance and high reusability

. Participates in RFP and POC for new testing tools

. Works with the tool vendors to bring in the new features or tools to the bank

. Works with tool vendors and project testing teams to devise custom solutions to optimise test delivery

Requirements

Education:

. Bachelors or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field.

. At least 12-15 years relevant experience, preferably in a large Finance Institution.

Essential:

. Proven working experience in Test Engineering, or equivalent role with at least 12 to 15 years relevant experience in large and complex organisations preferably in the area of Banking and Finance

. Proven experience with design & implementation of testing tools supporting the various delivery methodologies e.g. Agile, Hybrid Agile and Waterfall

. Strong, working knowledge and proven experience in the use of DevOps to support test automation

. Strong, working knowledge and proven experience in setting up and running distributed test execution for test automation

. Strong, working knowledge and proven experience in setting up and running mobile test automation

. Strong experience in market leading testing tools such as Tosca, Load Runner, Appium, Selenium, Jira, Zephyr (or equivalent), Mobile Device Farm, QuerySurge

. Strong knowledge in the implementation of CICD technologies and processes

. Knowledge in GenAI technologies

. Comfortable with working in multi-cultural, diverse, and remote virtual teams.

. Excellent client facing, internal communications, written and verbal communication skills.

. Strong attention to details, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

. Tosca certifications AS1, AS2, TDS1, TDS2 is mandatory

. Testing or quality related certifications (eg ISTQB), PMP certifications, and Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi) Framework awareness will be preferred

Key Domain/ Technical Skills
. Tosca, Tosca OSV

. Java, Python, Javascript, SQL

. Appium, Selenium

. Jenkins, CI/CD/CT, Git or BitBucket

. Mobile Device Farm technologies such as Perfecto

. Data Analytics technologies such as Anaconda