Senior QA Engineer / Lead Specialist (Test Automation)

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The Senior Test Automation Engineer will play a critical role in enhancing Test Automation solutions for the Client's applications and platforms including the SupTech program, Payments & Reporting platforms and related technology stacks within a modern DevSecOps delivery pipeline. This role encompasses analyzing technical and functional designs, defining test strategies, designing and implementing automated test frameworks and test cases (UI, API, Mobile App, Integrations, Performance Testing), and ensuring high quality, reliability, and security of software deliveries. The Senior Test Automation Engineer will drive continuous improvement in test automation practices & tooling to meet Client's quality objectives, collaborating with relevant stakeholders to optimize test coverage, execution efficiency, & compliance with industry standards and internal policies Additionally, the engineer will be responsible for integrating existing CI/CD pipelines with test automation scripts to establish a full CI/CD/CT (Continuous Testing) pipeline and utilizing mobile app testing tools such as Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, and Detox The role also involves promoting modern software quality engineering practices, fostering innovation in automation, ensuring code and test quality, promoting collaboration through agile practices, providing effective support and resolution for quality-related issues, and aligning testing and automation decisions with the overall objectives of the Client. Key Responsibilities Core Responsibilities Enhance and implement a robust, scalable, and maintainable test automation solutions for Client's applications stack. The role ensures that automated testing frameworks and suites are aligned with modern technology stacks and continuously support evolving business and regulatory needs. It involves setting the overall test automation strategy and technical vision, defining quality and testability standards, and ensuring adherence to best practices in software testing, evaluating Test automation and Performance Testing tools and its frameworks, Quality engineering patterns, Adopt agile testing practices and principles across the environment. 1. Test Automation Strategy, Design and Implementation - Design, develop, maintain, and enhance the test automation strategy for key applications and platforms (including SupTech (Supervision Technology for banking supervision), Payments & Reporting, and other critical systems). - Analyze business, functional, and technical requirements to design effective automated test scenarios and suites. - Design, build, and maintain modular, reusable, and scalable test automation frameworks (UI, API, Mobile, Integration, Performance and Regression). - Ensure test automation solutions are aligned with architectural standards, security guidelines, JIRA and DevSecOps/CI-CD practices. - Integrate existing CI/CD pipeline with test automation scripts to establish a full CI/CD/CT (Continuous Testing) pipeline, ensuring continuous validation throughout the development lifecycle. 2. Test Development, Execution and maintenance - Develop, review, and optimize automated test scripts using approved tools and languages. - Integrate automated tests into JIRA (Xray Test Case Management) for comprehensive test case lifecycle management, including requirements traceability, execution tracking, and reporting. - Maintain and refactor existing test suites to improve stability, reliability, coverage, and execution speed, monitor and analyze test execution results, identify flakiness or instability, and implement corrective actions. - Ensure timely execution of automated suites in line with release schedules and quality KPIs. - Implement Mobile Device Farm integration with Tosca (using tools like Perfecto, BrowserStack, or Sauce Labs) to execute automated mobile test cases on both physical devices and emulators/simulators. 3. Quality Engineering, Standards and Governance - Adhere to test automation coding standards, best practices, and design patterns, modern quality engineering approaches (e.g., Test-Driven, Behaviour-Driven, shift-left testing). - Contribute to maintain test data & environment management, test configuration standard - Support the establishment and tracking of quality metrics (e.g., test coverage, defect leakage, automation coverage, and execution duration). - Ensure testing practices are compliant with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards. 4. Collaboration, Stakeholder Engagement and Support - Collaborate closely with BA, Developers, Solution architects, PMO, and operations teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the lifecycle. - Liaise between business users and technical teams to clarify requirements, acceptance criteria, test coverage, support for test automation and quality-related issues, including troubleshooting test failures, environment issues and tool integration challenges. - Participate actively in agile ceremonies (planning, refinemen

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