[Senior/ Lead] QA Engineer (Automation Testing)

• Manage the quality practices and mindset across two or more Agile teams, dealing with both automation and exploratory testing in terms of quality assurance;
• Propose Test strategies for projects, and conduct workshops with internal & external stakeholders;
• Apply and adjust testing processes to ensure quality in a fully Agile SDLC;
• Define Test Plans (Test strategy and Test logistics) and applying Testing methodologies and techniques to design test cases and prepare test data;
• Create test strategy and approach, setting-up testing tools and testing frameworks that can be used inside teams or cross-teams;
• Apply Test monitoring and controls, including managing test effort and bug leaks;
• Perform Test evaluation and make quality reports for each delivery (making the decision "go"/"no-go");
• Drive an Automation first approach for Unit, System and Integrated System testing across the development team, and contribute to platform integration and performance tests to play a key role in driving product quality to keep users satisfied;
• Solve defects, driving investigations into problems and correction actions relating to recurring problems;
• Code automated tests for the Feature, System and Integrated Systems Testing Phases;
• Problem-solving, solution design automation and innovating using Quality Engineering practices;
• Contribute to Agile practices and Automation for stories in sprint delivery, CI/CD pipeline design, and build and maintenance, to support Quality Engineering practices;
• Create and review solution documentation and assist with the development and rectification when required;
• Conduct testing training to empower Software Engineers to a level of sufficient testing skills.

Experience with the following or similar technologies:

• Solid programming experience in Java and JavaScript / Typescript
• QTest, TestRail, Zephr, JIRA, Confluence
• PACT, Postman, SoapUI, REST Assured, TestNG,
• Selenium, JMeter, Loadrunner, Gatling,  iTKO Lisa
• Jenkins CI/CD, GitHub, SonarQube, Gradle, JFrog
• Exposure to AWS and cloud-native architecture (preferred)

Required experience:

• Excellent English communication skills (both verbal & written) with experience working across countries;
• 7+ years' experience in the design and execution of Manual & Automation testing with a minimum of:
  
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in Automation - Web/Mobile & API testing.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in leading & training Quality Engineering Practices across multiple teams.
• People leadership and coaching of Quality Engineers from junior to senior QAs;
• Able to create testing proposals (Test strategies, estimation, automation test solutions, performance test solution, etc.);
• Good at reading and understanding of Functional and Non-functional requirements, and provide feedback and enrich requirements efficiently;
• Solid knowledge of testing methodologies and techniques: Functional, Non-Functional, back-box and exploratory testing;
• Experience in strategic development and implementation of Quality Engineering solutions (Automation Frameworks, Performance Validation);
• Experience in coaching integrated teams including Software Engineers to ensure systems are designed for reliability, performance, and testability;
• Expert in Automation; using with CI/CD methodologies and DevOps would be preferable;
• University degree in IT field or equivalent industry experience;
• ISTQB – Certified (preferred);
• Experience in the Banking or Financial Services industry (preferred).