Automation Lead

Job description: Automation Lead

Tasks

• Design of test automation frameworks and solutions for cloud and on-prem platforms, including UI, API automation, service virtualization, CICD and test tool integration (JIRA, XRAY)
• Lead and manage test automation teams to ensure automation initiatives and deliveries align with business and technical objectives
• Collaborate with project stakeholders in Core Banking and Satellite Applications to gather automation and non-functional test requirements and define goals and solutions for the automation teams
• Drive automation teams to follow the latest tech stacks and industry best practices
• Maintain automation and performance test repositories to ensure seamless test execution and reporting integration with employment pipelines
• Foster a culture and desire for innovation and continuous improvement in the areas of test automation and performance testing
• Reviewing and tracking artifacts produced by automation teams
• Definition of test strategies, automation approaches, environments and automation applications for large and small projects
• Collaborate with various project, business and operations teams to achieve goals
• Status reporting and ability to proactively identify problems, risks and recommend optimal solutions

Client/stakeholder management (internal & external)

• Stakeholder management - working closely with senior stakeholders within IT and business to drive test automation delivery, best practices, innovation and automation
• Work with IT Risk to actively drive a risk culture within and across teams
• Ensuring awareness, involvement and support from key stakeholders and participants by building strong project teams and maintaining robust communication on project status throughout its lifecycle

Regulatory responsibilities and/or risk management

• Demonstrate appropriate values and behaviors, including but not limited to standards of honesty and integrity, care and diligence, fair treatment (fair treatment of clients), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, appropriate risk management and compliance with applicable laws and regulations
• Taking responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and closely managed, and driving all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards

Requirements

Professional and technical

Professional

• At least 12-15+ years of experience in driving test automation strategies and technical solutions
• Experience in private banking, including Teneos T24 Core Banking, preferred
• Experience and ability to provide technical solutions and adapt to the latest tech stacks and innovations
• Expertise in working with agile methods such as Scrum / Kanban / SAFE
• Experience in automation and control of automation strategies (Selenium, Playwright, STEP & other industry standard tools)

Technical

Must Have:

• Good understanding of Linux
• Good understanding of software engineering best practices, clean code guidelines, branching strategies, release processes, versioning, etc.
• Good understanding of streaming platform tests such as Confluent Kafka/IBM MQ etc.
• Experience in load and performance tests with JMeter, K6, Playwright
• Experience in observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk
• Exposure to core banking solutions (T24 preferred)

Personal and social