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QA Automation Lead

We are seeking a Test Automation Lead (SDET) with 5 years leading multiteam QA programs, to drive engineering-quality practices across complex banking platforms and integrations. You will architect automation frameworks, embed quality into CICD, and lead a team of SDETs/QA engineers to deliver reliable, compliant releases erience in BFSI systems (core banking, payments, digital channels) and hands-on coding for test automation is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Automation Architecture Delivery
  - Design, implement, and scale UI/API/DB automation frameworks (Selenium java/UFT, Rest Assured/Postman, Cucumber/BDD, TestNG/JUnit).
• Integrate automated suites into CICD (Azure Dev Ops/Jenkins/Git Lab) with quality gates, parallelization, test impact analysis, and artifact publishing.
• Establish coding standards for test harnesses, mocks, data builders, and service virtualization enforce code reviews and static analysis for test code.
• Domain Focused Testing (Banking) - Translate banking use cases (core deposits/loans, ACH/wires, card payments, digital banking) into robust automated scenarios and data validations.
• Partner with product owners and vendor teams (e.g., Client, internal platforms) to triage defects, validate patches/hotfixes, and maintain regression beds.
• Program Leadership Governance
  - Lead a squad of SDETs/QA engineers capacity planning, mentoring, and upskilling on advanced automation topics.
• Orchestrate defect triage, root cause analysis, and risk-based test planning own release readiness (go/no-go) and rollback validation.
• Drive shift-left practices (contract testing, API first, early data checks) and shift-right observability (synthetic monitoring, production validation dashboards).
• Compliance Security
  - Ensure test evidence meets BFSI regulatory/audit needs (SOX) automate traceability from user stories to test results and logs.

Required Qualifications

• 10-12 years in software testing/quality engineering, with 5 years leading SDET/automation teams.
• Strong hands-on coding in Java/C (or equivalent) for test automation (frameworks, utilities, custom drivers).
• Proven delivery of CICD-integrated automation at scale expert in test design for microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven systems.
• BFSI domain experience core banking or payments and vendor/platform collaboration (e.g., Client) for patch/regression cycles.
• Solid grasp of SQL and data validation familiarity with logs/metrics (Splunk/Sumo Grafana) for test diagnostics.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with OSAT-style regression accelerators or similar enterprise frameworks comfortable with shift-left/shift-right test strategies.
• Performance testing (JMeter/Load Runner)
• ISTQB (Advanced), Agile/SAFe, or cloud certifications (Azure/AWS).

Tools Stack (Illustrative)

• Automation Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Rest Assured, Postman, Cucumber/BDD, Appium (mobile)
• CICD SCM Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, Git Lab, Git Hub