Team Lead, Test Automation, Investment & Insurance, Consumer Banking Technology, Technology & Operations Permanent

Business Function
Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank’s operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.
The successful candidate should be passionate about owning the delivery and implementation of the test strategy and automation solutions to support end-to-end testing while meeting all stakeholder objectives.
Responsibilities

• Devise test objectives, analyse requirements, develop test strategies and plans
• Actively create and contribute to and maintain team’s automation tool set
• Conduct regular meetings and communicate various related metrices and initiatives across all levels.
• Maintain and improve dashboards, test automation tracking, test environment availability tracking etc.
• Build test frameworks and utilities to speed up test execution and increase test coverage
• Manage and maintain E2E test environments and test data
• Create test plans, test cases and traceability matrices based on complex business requirements documents and system design documents
• Conduct data quality assessment & design solutions to detect and improve test data quality
• Pro-actively seek to make continuous improvements to organizations over all quality of deliverables by improving test coverage, testing tools, frameworks, execution and test automation, etc.
• Create and/or maintain automated test data sets as well as validate test environments.
• Organize and prioritize team’s needs within given automation toolset to ensure execution is as effective as possible
• Take an active role in all testing phases, partnering with the Platform Test managers/QA leads
• Contribute to and maintain team’s internal knowledge base
• Review and provide feedback on high-level automation requirements, business requirements, and testing documents

Requirements

• UI test automation tools (Selenium WebDriver, HP QTP/UFT, Appium or similar)
• API testing (using Karate, JUnit, Postman or similar)
• Performance testing using JMeter / Performance Center
• Experience using a broad range of test automation frameworks (e.g. Protractor, Cucumber, JUnit or similar)
• Experience in test automation and developing automation frameworks from scratch
• Expert knowledge of continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Testing (CT) to streamline QA processes (Git, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Bamboo or similar)
• Good experience with SDLC practices of Agile, Behavioural and Test-Driven Development (Lean, Scrum, XP or similar)
• Experience in the field of financial/banking applications testing and testing on large complex projects/programmes as a lead or manager
• Strong technical knowledge – able to code in one or more scripting language
• Experience automating testing in multiple technologies – Mainframe, web, Java/.Net.
• Advanced knowledge of test methodologies and approaches
• Experience of using and implementing a variety of test tools, including tools for test management / planning, defect tracking, test automation, test data management
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.