Description

Responsibilities:

Advance product quality via testing innovations and process improvement.

Collaborate with BAs, Architects & Developers in designing testable applications.

Technical roadmaps & plans for implementing enterprise/program test strategies.

Design & manage technical proof-of-concept and feasibility studies.

Resolve technical issues, anticipate risks, and ensure timely management escalation.

Utilize analytical skills in determining the root cause of defects & issues.

Influence and communicate effectively with both technical & non-technical audiences.

Analysis, optimization, improvement & maintenance of current test automation suites.

Master enterprise/program high-level business workflows.

Guarantee compliance to automation framework, standards & best practices.

Facilitate automated, on-demand test automation metrics.

Ensure automated tests are run early & often providing quick feedback to the team.

Seek stakeholder feedback via test automation demos.

Recruiting and building high-performance teams and dealing with multiple staffing needs.

Resource management – devising DEV Plans, defining goals for team, performance feedback, year-end discussions, recommending promotions etc.

Monitoring & reporting – goal based, execution Status & delivery reports on weekly, monthly & quarterly basis.

Devising & implementing plans for leveraging & enhancing Automation – for regression, and system testing on release basis.

Required Skills:

Expert in writing automated scripts using scripting languages like SQL, Java, Python and JavaScript

Expert in designing and building automated testing framework using Behavior Driven Development and Test-Driven development tools like Cucumber, JBehave, Jasmine, Selenium.

Expert in building and implementing CI/CD automation strategies for testing using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure DevOps

Expert in designing automated test scripts testing Operational/Relational/OLAP databases and data warehouses.

Expert in designing automated test scripts and validations for ETL/ELT solutions for multiple parallel processing pipelines.

Expert in testing APIs and Micro-services for both UI layer and data layer for data extraction, preparations, and consumption modules.

Good Understanding and familiarity with SQL databases (Azure SQL DB, Azure DW) , ETL tools like (talend, Azure Data Factory) and Cloud Storage tools like Azure Data Lake, Blob Storage.

Minimum 7 years of experience in Financial Domain and at least 5 years of experience in Capital markets and 3 years of experience in Foreign Exchange (mandatory)

Expert is Data Testing covering all Data Dimensions and Data Flows.

Strong Analytical skills to understand complex business logic and calculations.

Expert in Performance Testing at program level

Expert in QA process, techniques & Methodologies.

Expert in Forecasting, estimation & ROI analysis.

Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.

Both attention to detail & ability to rise above details to see broader implications & recommend strategic solutions.

Proven interpersonal and communication skills with technical & business partners.

Self-starter; Positive & adaptable; multi-task in a continually changing environment.

Exposure to financial domain would be preferred.

Azure Certification would be preferred

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree