Job description

Job Description

The incumbent will be part of the Wholesale Operational Readiness Centre (WORC), responsible for effective implementation of Technology changes, reviewing Requirements from End-User perspective, and ensure implementation through effective Testing, Training and Documentation.

You will lead the transformation of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) into a continuous and efficient end to end quality engineering function through use of quality processes, tools, and methodologies to improve productivity, controls, accuracy, and execution velocity.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of automation and automated testing frameworks using tools such as TOSCA, Perfecto Scriptless, Co-Pilot and QuerySurge.

• Partner with project teams and WORC to ensure testing and automation requirements align with project goals and objectives.

• Work collaboratively with others to lead the definition of testing automation for technology-based applications, by aligning with enterprise and industry best practices.

• Design and implement standards, tools and methodologies to ensure the overall WORC Portfolio is maintained in a coherent manner.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, and ensure adherence to the bank’s quality processes, tools and methodologies.

• Stay updated with the latest advancements in testing and automation, including collaboration with the bank’s Testing Centre of Excellence (TCOE)

• Develop and maintain automated test scripts library.

• Contribute to the testing strategy for projects to align to changing delivery paradigms.

• Provide forward thinking, strategic input into WORC as they refine and refresh multi-year strategic plans.

• Establish practical design approaches and standards through research, evaluation, and proof-of-concept activities and ensures quality through design and code review.

• Provide support for regional WORC teams. 

• Lead human resource planning, development, and staff management for the automation team

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Requirements:

• Bachelor or Master degree

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in TOSCA (or similar automation tools) in banking and financial services with at least a year with GenAI tools such as Co-Pilot and strong knowledge of Python.

• Good-to-have: Experience in testing using Selenium, Appium, Perfecto Scriptless, QuerySurge, Postman API and other tools.

• Good-to-have: \Agile development methodologies.

• Good-to-have: Operations experience (Cash/ Trade/ Loans/ Channels operations)

• Experience in managing medium-sized team (10 to 20 people) comprising of automation engineers and test executors.

• Ability to take ownership of issues and proactively take them to closure.

• Ability to collaborate with peers and to work cross-functionally with testing personnel in other teams as well as with developers, business analysts, system analysts and product owners.

• Detailed and results-oriented and able to work independently within strict timeframes.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills, including effective presentation skills

Additional Requirements