QA Automation Lead

Responsibilities

• Advance product quality via testing innovations and process improvement.
• Collaborate with Client, Architects & Developers in designing testable applications.
• Technical roadmaps & plans for implementing enterprise/program test strategies.
• Design & manage technical proof-of-concept and feasibility studies.
• Resolve technical issues, anticipate risks, and ensure timely management escalation.
• Utilize analytical skills in determining the root cause of defects & issues.
• Influence and communicate effectively with both technical & non-technical audiences.
• Analyze, optimize, improve & maintain current test automation suites.
• Master enterprise/program high-level business workflows.
• Guarantee compliance to automation framework, standards & best practices.
• Facilitate automated, on-demand test automation metrics.
• Ensure automated tests are run early & often providing quick feedback to the team.
• Seek stakeholder feedback via test automation demos.
• Recruiting and building high-performance teams and dealing with multiple staffing needs.
• Resource management – devising DEV Plans, defining goals for team, performance feedback, year-end discussions, recommending promotions etc.
• Monitoring & reporting – goal based, execution Status & delivery reports on weekly, monthly & quarterly basis.
• Devising & implementing plans for leveraging & enhancing Automation – for regression, and system testing on release basis.

Requirements

• Expert in writing automated scripts using scripting languages like SQL, Java, Python and JavaScript.
• Expert in designing and building automated testing framework using Behavior Driven Development and Test-Driven development tools like Cucumber, JBehave, Jasmine, Selenium.
• Expert in building and implementing CI/CD automation strategies for testing using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure DevOps.
• Expert in designing automated test scripts testing Operational/Relational/OLAP databases and data warehouses.
• Expert in designing automated test scripts and validations for ETL/ELT solutions for multiple parallel processing pipelines.
• Expert in testing APIs and Micro-services for both UI layer and data layer for data extraction, preparations, and consumption modules.
• Good Understanding and familiarity with SQL databases (Azure SQL DB, Azure DW) , ETL tools like (talend, Azure Data Factory) and Cloud Storage tools like Azure Data Lake, Blob Storage.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Financial Domain and at least 5 years of experience in Capital markets and 3 years of experience in Foreign Exchange.
• Expert is Data Testing covering all Data Dimensions and Data Flows.
• Strong Analytical skills to understand complex business logic and calculations.
• Expert in Performance Testing at program level.
• Expert in QA process, techniques & Methodologies.
• Expert in Forecasting, estimation & ROI analysis.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Both attention to detail & ability to rise above details to see broader implications & recommend strategic solutions.
• Proven interpersonal and communication skills with technical & business partners.
• Self-starter; Positive & adaptable; multi-task in a continually changing environment.

Qualifications

• Expert in writing automated scripts using scripting languages like SQL, Java, Python and JavaScript.
• Expert in designing and building automated testing framework using Behavior Driven Development and Test-Driven development tools like Cucumber, JBehave, Jasmine, Selenium.
• Expert in building and implementing CI/CD automation strategies for testing using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure DevOps.
• Expert in designing automated test scripts testing Operational/Relational/OLAP databases and data warehouses.
• Expert in designing automated test scripts and validations for ETL/ELT solutions for multiple parallel processing pipelines.
• Expert in testing APIs and Micro-services for both UI layer and data layer for data extraction, preparations, and consumption modules.
• Good Understanding and familiarity with SQL databases (Azure SQL DB, Azure DW) , ETL tools like (talend, Azure Data Factory) and Cloud Storage tools like Azure Data Lake, Blob Storage.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Financial Domain and at least 5 years of experience in Capital markets and 3 years of experience in Foreign Exchange.
• Expert is Data Testing covering all Data Dimensions and Data Flows.
• Strong Analytical skills to understand complex business logic and calculations.
• Expert in Performance Testing at program level.
• Expert in QA process, techniques & Methodologies.
• Expert in Forecasting, estimation & ROI analysis.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Both attention to detail & ability to rise above details to see broader implications & recommend strategic solutions.
• Proven interpersonal and communication skills with technical & business partners.
• Self-starter; Positive & adaptable; multi-task in a continually changing environment.