Senior Quality Automation Specialist, AVP

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •8+ years of intensive, hands-on automation engineering experience
• •Proven track record of designing, building, scaling, and maintaining enterprise-grade automation solutions
• •Deep expertise across Selenium
• •Tricentis Tosca
• •API and service automation
• •SoapUI/RestAssured
• •CI/CD-integrated execution
• •Service Virtualization
• •AWS
• •AI-assisted automation engineering
• •Strong Banking and Payments domain experience
• •Ability to convert complex transaction workflows and operational controls into resilient automated validation solutions
• •Substantial on-ground automation development
• •Coordination of automation/functional work delivered by the India team
• •Close collaboration with the SQA team and the lead located in India
• •Alignment of automation backlogs, dependencies, technical standards, execution progress, and delivery outcomes
• •Design, develop, debug, and maintain scalable enterprise automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, API, Service Virtualization and Tricentis Tosca
• •Build robust, reusable automated solutions for complex web, service, API, data, and end-to-end Banking and Payments workflows
• •Write high-quality automation code and reusable libraries using Java and/or Python
• •Application of object-oriented design, clean-code principles, exception handling, logging, and configuration management
• •Development of page-object, data-driven, keyword-driven, modular, and hybrid framework components
• •Engineering stable automated suites with effective waits, synchronization, reusable locators, recovery logic, parallel execution, cross-browser execution, and environment-independent configuration
• •Diagnosis of flaky automation, execution failures, framework bottlenecks, and test-data dependencies
• •Implementation of permanent engineering solutions for automation issues
• •Maintenance of automation assets through application and service changes
• •Continuous improvement of execution speed, stability, scalability, and maintainability
• •90% responsibility for performing hands-on automation scripting
• •Participation in code review
• •Technical troubleshooting
• •Test-data setup
• •Execution analysis
• •Evidence generation
• •Design and implementation of comprehensive REST and SOAP API automation
• •Use of SoapUI, ReadyAPI, REST Assured, Postman, Newman, Karate, and equivalent enterprise-approved tools
• •Automated coverage for request and response payloads, schemas, headers, authentication, authorization, status codes, error handling, business rules, and service-level data integrity
• •Automation of API workflows using OAuth 2.0, JWT, API keys, certificates, session tokens, and other applicable enterprise authentication mechanisms
• •Development of reusable API clients, service-object layers, payload builders, assertion libraries, environment configurations, and automated data setup and cleanup utilities
• •Implementation of contract and schema validation using OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, JSON Schema, XML Schema, and consumer-driven contract approaches such as Pact
• •Automation of chained and stateful service workflows, asynchronous processing, callbacks, queues, batch interfaces, file-based services, and upstream/downstream dependencies
• •Use of service virtualization and mocking tools such as WireMock or equivalent solutions
• •Development of automated API performance and reliability checks using JMeter or equivalent tools
• •Integration of API suites with Maven or Gradle builds, source control, reporting solutions, and CI/CD pipelines
• •Design and maintenance of Tosca modules, reusable test-step blocks, templates, test data, execution lists, recovery scenarios, and distributed execution configurations
• •Application of Tosca model-based automation practices to complex web, API, and enterprise Banking workflows
• •Optimization of Tosca workspaces, reusable assets, synchronization, test-data management, and execution performance
• •Integration of Tosca automated execution with CI/CD pipelines and enterprise reporting mechanisms
• •Development and enhancement of Selenium automation frameworks using Java or Python with TestNG, JUnit, PyTest, Maven, or Gradle
• •Implementation of reusable page objects, component libraries, utility layers, data providers, reporting, screenshot capture, retry controls, and parallel execution capabilities
• •Integration of Selenium suites with Selenium Grid, cloud or enterprise browser infrastructure, source control, pipeline execution, and reporting tools
• •Application of resilient locator strategies and synchronization techniques to modern dynamic web applications
• •Use of approved AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, and enterprise AI assistants to accelerate automation code generation, refactoring, documentation, test-data creation, and maintenance
• •Application of prompt-engineering and iterative-validation techniques to generate effective automation assets
• •Ensuring all AI-generated content is technically reviewed, secure, explainable, and maintainable
• •Use of AI-assisted approaches to identify automation candidates, improve scenario coverage, analyze failures, detect flaky patterns, optimize scripts, and accelerate root-cause analysis
• •Evaluation of emerging AI-enabled automation capabilities and implementation of practical improvements
• •Integration of UI, API, service, and Tosca automation suites into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent enterprise platforms
• •Configuration of scheduled, event-driven, pipeline-gated, parallel, and distributed automated execution across environments
• •Implementation of automated reporting, logs, dashboards, failure classification, evidence capture, and quality gates
• •Management of automation configuration, secrets, dependencies, test data, environment parameters, and version-controlled assets in compliance with enterprise engineering standards
• •Application of deep Banking and Payments knowledge to automate account servicing, payment initiation, validation, authorization, transaction processing, approvals, entitlements, posting, settlement, reconciliation, returns, exceptions, and status-tracking workflows
• •Translation of complex Banking business rules, transaction lifecycles, operational controls, cut-off considerations, and data dependencies into reusable automated validation solutions
• •Building automation for high-volume, high-risk, and business-critical payment scenarios, including positive, negative, boundary, error-path, and recovery conditions
• •Validation of automated outcomes across UI, API, service, message, file, and database layers
• •Coordination of the automation backlog, work allocation inputs, technical dependencies, execution schedules, and delivery tracking with the India-based SQA team and SQA Lead
• •Facilitation of technical alignment across automation engineers on common frameworks, coding standards, reusable components, tool usage, and CI/CD integration
• •Consolidation of automation progress, execution results, blockers, risks, and dependency updates for relevant stakeholders
• •Support of effective handoffs and collaboration across time zones
• •Direct accountability for substantial hands-on automation engineering deliverables
• •8+ years of intensive hands-on test automation engineering experience
• •Advanced hands-on expertise in Selenium WebDriver
• •Strong experience building Java based automation frameworks
• •Service Virtualization skills
• •Strong hands-on expertise in Tricentis Tosca
• •Advanced API and service automation experience using multiple tools and frameworks, including SoapUI, ReadyAPI, REST Assured, Postman, Newman, Karate, and equivalent technologies
• •Strong knowledge of REST, SOAP, HTTP/HTTPS, JSON, XML, OpenAPI/Swagger, schemas, authentication, service virtualization, mocking, and database validation
• •Strong experience with automation-oriented tools and libraries such as TestNG, JUnit, PyTest, Maven, Gradle, Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Selenium Grid, WireMock, Pact, JMeter, and reporting frameworks
• •Demonstrated experience integrating automated suites into CI/CD pipelines and operating unattended, parallel, scheduled, and distributed execution
• •Demonstrated use of AI-assisted engineering tools to create, enhance, refactor, debug, and maintain automated solutions
• •Strong SQL knowledge for automated data setup, validation, reconciliation, and cleanup
• •Strong debugging, coding, framework-design, execution-analysis, and problem-solving capabilities
• •Deep practical knowledge and experience in Banking and Payments
• •Strong understanding of payment and transaction lifecycles, account servicing, entitlements, approvals, posting, settlement, reconciliation, returns, exceptions, and operational controls
• •Proven ability to convert complex Banking and Payments requirements into executable automation architecture, reusable scenarios, and reliable validations
• •Automation-first, engineering-focused mindset with strong ownership of hands-on technical deliverables
• •Ability to independently design solutions, write automation code, troubleshoot complex failures, and complete deliverables with minimal supervision
• •Strong communication and coordination skills for working closely with the India-based SQA team, SQA Lead, developers, product partners, and globally distributed stakeholders
• •Strong focus on measurable automation outcomes, including coverage, reliability, maintainability, execution speed, and reduction of repetitive effort
• •Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline
• •8+ years of relevant automation engineering experience in enterprise application environments
• •Proven delivery experience across Selenium, Tricentis Tosca, API/service automation, SoapUI/ReadyAPI, CI/CD, and AI-assisted automation
• •Strong Banking and Payments domain experience
• •Experience in regulated financial-services environments
• •Relevant Tricentis Tosca, Selenium, API automation, cloud, DevOps, or AI certifications

Desired Qualifications

• •Experience in regulated financial-services environments
• •Relevant Tricentis Tosca, Selenium, API automation, cloud, DevOps, or AI certifications
• •Experience with AI-assisted automation engineering