Senior QA Lead- Automation

Senior QA Lead – Automation Engineer Job Description (JD)

Experience : 10 years

Job Overview

We are looking for a talented and experienced QA Tester specializing in Functional and Automation Testing to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Selenium / BDD Cucumber framework, experience in agile methodologies, and a solid understanding of the banking domain.

Key Responsibilities :

Work in an agile environment following through the best practices of agile Scrum.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand application / domain requirements, write test cases, execute tests, and manage defects.

Analyze the requirements, seek clarifications, contribute to good acceptance criteria, estimate, and be committed.

Create test plans that are smart and adequate to ensure the product quality and stability.

Write the test cases and automate the test executions to ensure acceptance criteria is met.

Develop automated regression test suites for continued assurance of product quality.

Review the test designs, test plans, and test cases to ensure the coverage.

Develop QA metrics to measure the QA automation effectiveness.

Perform UAT tests that mimic the end-to-end user scenarios.

Validate production by running the sanity tests, and data validations.

Bring innovative solutions to reduce the operational risks by automating mundane repetitive tasks across SDLC.

Work closely with agile teams to ensure testing aligns with project timelines and requirements.

Apply banking domain knowledge to testing processes.

Execute STLC process with precision and efficiency

Required Skills

Conduct functional and automation testing using Selenium / BDD Cucumber framework.

Utilize test management tools such as JIRA for tracking and managing test cases and defects.

Expertise in QA automation frameworks for functional, regression and performance tests like Selenium, Cucumber, Soap UI, JMeter, Load Runner etc.

Expertise in QA automation of data flows, data analysis, and SQL.

Expertise in testing for non-functional requirements.

Expertise in testing enterprise integrations through RESTful APIs, Kafka messaging etc.

Familiarity with Authentication, Authorization, and Security.

Good to have SQL / oracle database.

Strong banking domain knowledge.

Proficient in STLC process with excellent testing skills

Experience in Test Management tools like JIRA

Excellent communication skills and ability to coordinate with various teams on testing activities.

Collaborative mindset, self-driven, and takes ownership of tasks.