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.

Job Duties & responsibilities 

• Lead/Manage, analyse, create and automate software projects for functional performance requirements and creation of automation plans and test scripts. Devise test objectives, analyse requirements, develop test strategies and plans.
• Create and execute automated tests, track defects and report results
• Responsible for end to end testing delivery for the applications in collaboration with other stakeholders and test leads of other interfacing systems.
• Responsible for the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Actively acquire information from stakeholders rather than relying entirely on written Specs
• Actively participate in inception, daily stand-ups and retrospective meeting & represent testing
• Accurately evaluate and report test results, test progress, and product quality
• Work effectively to define testable user stories, acceptance criteria, with all stakeholders
• Collaborate within the team, working in pairs with programmers and other team members
• Respond to change quickly, including changing, adding, or improving test cases
• Create acceptance tests that will be automated as part of each sprint
• Automate the testing in-sprint and during SIT using the right tool set – Licenced/Open source
• Ensure continuous integration for testing code and implement continuous testing
• Risk and Issue Management - Identify, mitigate and escalate testing risks and issues
• Manage testing environments and logistics for each test stage (SIT/UAT).
• Monitor the readiness of test environments (including interfaces and data setup) for each test stage.
• Take complete responsibility of testing project/program and managing independently.

Requirements

• Strong Test management experience (8+yrs) of managing small to medium size test team/projects.
• Expert in of the below all or some.
• Test automation tools (Selenium WebDriver, HP QTP/UFT, Appium or similar)
• API testing (using SoapUI, JUnit, Karate, Postman or similar)
• Microservices contract testing
• Performance testing using JMeter /Load Runner.
• Experience using a broad range of test automation frameworks (e.g. Protractor, Cucumber, JUnit or similar)
• Experience in programming / scripting java or python.
• Hands-on experience in continuous Integration (CI) pipelines using Jenkins and git lab and Continuous Testing (CT) to streamline QA
• Experience in continuous testing and BDD.
• Experience or knowledge in testing in cloud.
• Good experience with SDLC practices of Agile, Behavioural and Test-Driven Development (Lean, Scrum, XP or similar)
• Experience in testing for Big Data/Hadoop (optional)
• Experience in the field of financial/banking applications (prefer Finacle) 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 in test automation and developing automation frameworks from scratch.
• 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
• Experience with Agile & Testing Tools like HPALM, UFT, JIRA, Confluence would be an advantage
• Familiar with open source testing frameworks
• Experience with VB scripting, REST and MS Excel scripting would be an advantage
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing test automation based on BDD
• Experience of working on agile projects and deliveries
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Minimum 6+ yrs in Testing and automation.