Test Automation Engineer, AVP

Job Title: Test Automation Engineer

Location: Pune, India

Corporate Title: AVP

Role Description

• Our technology teams are responsible for the bank's complete information technology infrastructure. They develop and maintain programs that are required for the bank's business. The teams work closely with the business units and other infrastructure units to modernize their IT systems to reduce complexity, minimize risk, and enable growth.
• Working in the Bank's Technology division means looking ahead and shaping the future. We rely on employees who derive economically viable ideas from technological trends and developments, who redesign our business and offer our customers added value. It is always about meeting the needs of customers, regulators, and markets alike.
• Our Technology, Data, and Innovation (TDI) strategy is focused on strengthening engineering expertise, introducing an agile delivery model, as well as modernizing the bank's IT infrastructure with long-term investments and taking advantage of cloud computing.
• To strengthen our development team, we are looking for Engineers who can design, develop, and implement innovative solutions to achieve our goal.
• The position is in Private Bank – Platform Technology
• As a Test Engineer, you design, develop and automate the testing of application for business and technical implementation and enhancements. It also includes creation of testing strategies, plans and deliverables related to testing within the Instant Payments applications.
• To meet business needs, you actively participate in the design and architecture of test automation framework or its components, explore and propose appropriate technologies, support the reusability of existing components, and support Quality Assurance. You also drive operational excellence to improve the quality and functionality of our payment platforms.
• Further, this role will be part of the Scrum Team comprising of engineers, functional analysts, and specialists. The team is responsible for rolling out Instant Payments in various geographies and focus will be on adoption of recognized best practices. Additionally, you will be a part of our Testing Chapter and continuously contribute to the ongoing improvement of methodologies.
• You will work as part of a cross-functional agile delivery team. You will bring an innovative approach to software development, focusing on using the latest technologies and practices, as part of a relentless focus on business value. You will be someone who sees engineering as team activity, with a predisposition to open code, open discussion and creating a supportive, collaborative environment. You will be ready to contribute to all stages of software delivery, from initial analysis right through to production support.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Analyze, design, develop and enhance automation framework for real-time transaction processing product.
• Follow agile testing methodologies to ensure quality and consistency of deliveries. 
• Manage the maintenance of automation suite and implement planned engineering changes according to agile principles / processes.
• Design, implementation, execution and results analysis, documentation of automated/manual unit, integration, regression, resilience, and performance tests.
• Full ownership of the quality assurance process for the squad
• Development and enhancement of a Test Automation Framework with Java 17 using Springboot, Cucumber, Mockito, Junit5, Lombok and OpenAPI. and deployment automation (CI/CD).
• Integration of the test automation with infrastructure components such as Oracle Databases, MQ, Kafka and APIs
• Handling Non-Functional Testing (Load, performance, etc)
• It is also expected that you contribute on following activities:
• Contribute to QA of delivery of package/changes as per requirements
• Collaborate with functional experts to develop end-to-end test scenarios
• Collaborating across partner interfaces for end-to-end testing
• Presentation of QA approach and results in demo sessions
• Expertise in understanding of client, business and technical requirements and problem-solving skills (analyzes the defects, identify the root-cause and provide workaround/permanent solution)
• Ability to analyze and identify impact for new enhancements/change requests

Your skills and experience

• Total 12+ years of experience in IT industry with exposure to software Testing, development and maintenance of automation test suite, knowledge and hand-on experience in implementing test automation frameworks
• Hand-on experience in Test standards and procedures, and testing non-functional requirements
• Experience of working in agile teams
• Communication skills, analytical skills, problem-solving attitude and team player
• Possessing relevant toolset knowledge (JIRA, Confluence, PostMan etc)
• Ability to synthesize, visualize and communicate ideas to others, to explain complex topic in simple terms
• Engineering degree from an accredited college or university with a concentration in Computer-Science or Software Engineering (or equivalent)

Must have skills-

Technical Skills

• Automation Tool/Framework – like Cucumber, Selenium, Load Runner, Jmeter
• Knowledge of : REST, JSON, XML
• Programming: VB Script, Java, Python, APIs
• Query/Scripting:   SQL basics, shell script
• Middleware: IBM MQ, Active MQ, JMS
• Tools: PostMan, Jira, Confluence, Git, Maven, Artifactory, HP ALM

Domain/Functional Skills

• Must have: Payment Industry overview, MT/MX messaging
• Agile & Testing Methodologies
• DevOps working ways
• Stakeholder Management

Nice to have skills-

• Dev Ops: Jenkins, Team City, u-Deploy, Ansible
• Middleware: Kafka
• Container: Docker, Kubernetes, any cloud platform

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.