Lead Software Engineer (Test automation Engineer)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Researching and recommending tools and technologies to enhance automation coverage across multiple application tiers
• Building and maintaining scalable and reusable automation frameworks
• Conducting bug reporting, performance monitoring, and root cause analysis
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank's technology transformation
• Designing and implementing test strategies across UI, API, and backend layers
• Leading and mentoring QA teams
• Driving automation best practices and coding standards
• Collaborating with DevOps and development teams for seamless CI/CD integration
• Managing test coverage, risk analysis, and release readiness
• Evaluating and recommending new tools and technologies

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Six to eight years of relevant experience
• Strong background in designing, developing, and maintaining automated systems across both UI and backend layers
• Experience building scalable and reusable test automation frameworks to support cross-platform and cross-browser testing
• Automation tools experience in: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, Appium (for mobile), Postman (for API testing)
• Experience in programming languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or C#
• Framework experience in: BDD/TDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber), custom test automation frameworks
• CI/CD integration experience: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps
• Version control experience: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• Cloud & containerization experience: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Performance testing experience: JMeter, Gatling, or k6
• Monitoring & reporting tools experience: Allure, TestRail, Grafana, Kibana
• Experience leading and mentoring QA teams
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and analytical thinking

Nice to Have

• Experience with No-Code/Low-Code tools such as Testim, Katalon, or similar platforms

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Six to eight years of relevant experience

Benefits & Perks

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year