Appian Automation Testing / Senior Consultant Specialist

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist.

In this role, you will :

As a Senior consultant specialist, Primary role would be to undertake System / System Integration Testing with a pool of Senior Test Analysts / Test Analysts who test changes and enhancements to IT systems; predominantly conducted on Banking systems uses BDD framework, to ensure that these changes have the effect intended by the Business.

As Functional Engineer or Automation Engineer you should be able to Provide Estimation of a requirements, devise Test strategy, review Test Plan, Map requirements, Conducting Reviews for artifacts, taking care of execution, defect reporting until closure activity. Since the era is moving towards modernization & optimization, usage o latest tools & technologies is something needs to be adopted as agreed. There are testing process established at Enterprise Technology, high Quality level which needs to be adhere along with Business Continuity.

Participate during project initiation, understanding the requirements, prepare / assist in test estimation, formulate test strategy or Test Plan

Task Allocation and Monitoring, Co-ordinate and Manage Test Schedules

Coordinate with Project Manager about the Test environment, Prepare Test Bed, Test Data for execution

Conduct reviews and inspections of test deliverables and provide feedback to the team

Execute tests, track and monitor defects to closure and produce test metrics and test report (DSR / WSR) to be shared with Stakeholders

Responsible for Test Automation (BDD)adoption as per enterprise Technology Appain Strategy, preferably using Cucumber on top of selenium.( cucumber for appian framework)

Have thorough understanding of Devops, CI / CD pipeline, Jenkins, GitHub and should implement the same as per Enterprise Technology Strategy in all projects.

Participate in project meetings to provide feedback and statistics of the project in relation to the test quality

Implement creative and innovative ways of testing to meet project goals without compromising quality

Proactively identifying potential delivery related issues and arriving at mitigation plan.

Provide Suggestions / feedback in refining testing practices and methodologies.

Being from CB enabler, able to drive projects for Value streams and support them comfortable hence should have understanding of Agile Concepts, Safe framework or Scrum framework.

Capture reusability for a project from BST & Automation perspective to showcase savings.

Able to conduct performance testing and has expertise on Jmeter tool.

Ability to coordinate with teams involved and provide support to all interfacing application / Systems impacted for project

Ensure constructive working relationships within team and with other functional groups

Ensure compliance to laid down organization wide process and operations guidelines

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements :

10+ year minimum of overall experience in manual and automation testing projects

A Strong technical knowledge and understanding of functional system testing and UAT

Experience in selenium and BDD framework along with cucumber(cucumber for appian framework)

Knowledge of API tools like Soap UI, Postman, REST etc., framework designing

CI-CD, Jenkins, GitHub are mandatory. Knowledge of any other automation tool would be an added advantage.

Strong exposure to SDLC and Agile methodologies.

Experience as Test Lead or Test Manager is an added advantage

Understanding of test management tools, JIRA, ALM and Confluence

Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation of complex information and data).

A strong commitment to quality and efficiency

Excellent multitasking ability - Must have ability to track multiple issues, effectively manage time and competing priorities, and to drive results through partner organizations.