SDET Engineer (Banking Applications)

Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Define and implement end to end test strategy and test automation for Bank’s major initiatives
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to both team members and project peers
• Champion engineering excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement
• Problem-solving skills and the abilities to analyse quantitatively, understand product technical requirements and effectively translate to testing deliverables.
• Participation in all Scrum meetings and rituals
• Help teams and stakeholders write appropriate test criteria for each user story during sprint planning meetings
• Collaborate with developers to write automated unit tests prior to writing feature code.
• Facilitate and encourage testing with end users.
• Coach and mentoring ADA application teams on agile testing and test automation.
• Device the test environment strategy for ADA
• Manage and govern the ADA test environments
• Define and manage test data for various initiatives

Requirements:

• 5-8 years of experience in leading the testing on large complex projects/programmes as a lead or hands-on manager
• Hands-on experience with agile methodology and Strong technical knowledge – able to code
• Significant hands-on experience in solution design in the development of automated tests leveraging Java using BDD tools such Cucumber
• Experience automating testing in multiple technologies –Mobile, Web, Microservices,
• Experience automating through the UI, API, and web services
• Understanding of Web fundamentals (HTTP, REST, JSON etc.), 2 tier/3 tier architectures.
• Mobile applications testing and automation (native applications, mobile browsers, remote devices)
• Understanding of Microservices architecture and Stubbing (good if he/she has knowledge of spring frameworks and wire mock)
• Understanding of Message Queues, Kafka – how to test
• Building and maintenance of Automation Frameworks (or at least understand the package structure and different aspects of it)
• Excellent knowledge of Data models, database queries and knowledge of RDBMS/NoSQL platforms.
• Code versioning and build/deploy tools, CI/CD e.g., git, Jenkins etc.
• of QA practices: black box, white box testing; performance testing, regression, and exploratory testing.
• Technologies like Ansible, Containers, Kubernetes etc. is a plus.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills