Associate Vice President - Quality Automation Engineer (API Testing)

NatWest Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group seeks an experienced Quality Automation Engineer (AVP) in Bengaluru to lead automated testing for APIs and microservices. You will shape automation strategies, drive CI/CD integration, and partner with feature teams to deliver high-quality software with reduced time to market.

You bring 8+ years in quality engineering, strong Java and REST API testing skills, and experience designing scalable automation frameworks for cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of total experience in quality engineering and test automation.
• Proficient in Java, REST APIs, and microservices testing.
• Experience with CI/CD environments and automation frameworks.
• Strong collaboration with development teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design automation test strategies aligned to goals.
• Evolve predictive and intelligent testing approaches.
• Ensure automated testing is integrated in planning and delivery.
• Build reusable, end-to-end API/microservice test suites.

Skills

Automated testing

Java

RestAssured

REST APIs

Microservices

Kubernetes

Cloud technologies

Job description

Quality Automation Engineer, API Testing, AVP

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist, API Testing In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities We're offering this role at associate vice president level What you'll do Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll be making sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market. It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
• Evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
• Collaborating with stakeholders and feature teams and making sure that automated testing is performed and monitored as an essential part of the planning and product delivery
• Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
• Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with experience of automated testing, particularly from an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You'll need at least eight years of total experience in quality engineering and test automation with experitise in technology stack includes Java, RestAssured, REST APIs, Microservices, Kubernetes, and Cloud technologies. You'll need experience in designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and test suites for APIs and microservices. You'll need experience in creating and executing functional, integration, regression, and end to end tests, validating REST APIs, HTTP protocols, request and response contracts, and error handling scenarios. You'll need eperiencein collaborating closely with development teams to embed quality engineering best practices across the SDLC, support testing in cloud native and containerized environments, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and drive an automation first testing approach. You'll also ineed experience in dentifying and troubleshooting defects across distributed systems and microservices while reporting test outcomes, quality metrics, and continuous improvement opportunities.

We’ll also look for you to have:

• Experience in end-to-end and automation testing using the latest tools as recommended by enterprise tooling framework
• A background of designing, developing and implementing automation frameworks in new environments
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to management level colleagues
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills

Hours 45 Job Posting Closing Date: 06/11/2026 Experience Level Executive Level