Application Developer_Test Automation

Citi; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking an experienced QA Automation Engineer to contribute to application systems analysis and automation. You will work across the full project lifecycle, implementing smart automation, and creating robust test frameworks using Selenium with Java, Cucumber, and BDD approaches.

Ideal candidates have 5–8 years in testing within banking or services tech, strong SQL knowledge, and proven ability to lead teams while hands-on testing.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in QA/testing roles, preferably in banking or services technology.
• Hands on experience with test automation, test script creation and modification.
• Working knowledge of Selenium, Cucumber and JIRA.
• Awareness of Agile and BDD frameworks.
• Proven ability to lead local and remote QA teams while remaining accountable for hands-on testing.
• Extensive experience in testing across SDLC.
• Strong commitment to quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Participate in full project lifecycle with testing automation.
• Create, update and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks.
• Develop quality test cases, scenarios and ensure coverage of requirements.
• Provide accurate estimates for task duration and effort.
• Conduct daily project status reporting and trace test cases to user stories.

Skills

Selenium

Java

BDD

Cucumber

TestNG

SQL

JIRA

TeamCity

VB Script

Automation scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Zephyr

Selenium Framework

JIRA

TeamCity

Job description

The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities and applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge, contributing to the development of new techniques and the improvement of processes and work-flow for the area or function.

Responsibilities

• This role which requires candidate to be involved in the full project lifecycle, bring in innovative smart automation suggestion to testing new developments provide the anticipated functionality and to ensure current functionality is unaffected.
• Hands-on expertise in tools - Selenium, BDD, TestNG, Cucumber with good concepts of Java - OOPS concepts
• Good understanding of how to connect with Test Data - Selenium
• Awareness in creation of Framework / knowledge in updating the scenarios.
• Need exposure in usage of variables in Test Data. Knowledge in optimization of execution approaches.
• Good to have - grid implementation, cucumber customization, multi browser implementation.
• Need Exposure in Selenium Framework. Certifications in Selenium would be an added advantage.
• Good command of SQL query and Database testing - Working knowledge
• Create quality test cases, scenarios & ensuring quality assurance for software development projects in various stages & managing process control as per standards.
• Exposure on functional Test Automation & hybrid, keyword-driven, data-driven, Behavior Driven, Fast automation frameworks.
• Hand-on experience on continuous integration will be an added advantage., Exposure to TeamCity
• Hands-on experience in creating automation scripts, functions, reusable components using VB Script., Java
• Good knowledge of JIRA Testing and defect Mgmt. tool with JIRA Zephyr Test Mgmt. Tool
• Analyze test cases thoroughly to ensure adequate coverage of requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated and manual test scripts for requirement/user story validation, integration, regression, performance and usability testing.
• Provide accurate and precise estimates for assigned task duration and work effort, along with confidence level, and foreseeable dependencies in Agile and waterfall.
• Responsible for test data conditioning
• Trace test cases and results back to specific user stories/requirements/quality risks.
• Responsible for daily status reporting at project level

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience, working in similar roles across banking or services technology; Knowledge of Corporate banking and trade finance. Past working in Trade platforms is added advantage.
• Hands on experience with test automation, test script creation and modification required.
• Working knowledge of Selenium / Cucumber and JIRA
• Working knowledge of Agile, BDD frameworks
• Proven ability to lead local and remote QA teams while remaining accountable for hands on Testing.
• Extensive experience in Testing, ideally working in a split site environment.
• Strong knowledge of full software development and testing lifecycle.
• A strong commitment to quality and efficiency

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Job Family Group

Technology

Job Family

Applications Development

Time Type

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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