Digital Software Engineer Manager – Assistant Vice President

Citi; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi in Pune, India, seeks a Digital Software Engineer Manager to lead teams across software development and QA. You will coordinate delivery of digital software solutions, guide test automation design, and mentor junior engineers while aligning with Citi’s leadership principles.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers, designers and developers, and active participation in agile ceremonies to ensure quality and timely releases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Support and assist senior software engineer managers in coordinating and managing software development projects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of digital software solutions.
• Assist in planning and execution of software development processes including requirements, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Design and maintain scalable UI test automation frameworks using Java.
• Write clean, maintainable automated test scripts for web applications.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and delivery.
• Analyze test results and report defects clearly in bug tracking systems.
• Mentor junior automation engineers on best practices for test automation.
• Stay current with industry trends and propose process improvements.

Skills

Java programming

Selenium WebDriver

Cypress

Playwright

TestNG

BDD (Cucumber/JBehave)

CI/CD

Git

Web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS)

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The Digital Software Engineer Mgr accomplishes results through the management of professional team(s) and department(s). Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Contributes to standards around which others will operate. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the entire function. Requires basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness and delivery of end results of an area. May have responsibility for planning, budgeting and policy formulation within area of expertise. Involved in short-term planning resource planning. Full management responsibility of a team, which may include management of people, budget and planning, to include duties such as performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary and terminations and may include budget approval.

Responsibilities

• Support and assist senior software engineer managers in coordinating and managing software development projects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, and product managers to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of digital software solutions.
• Assist in the planning and execution of software development processes, including requirement gathering, coding, testing, and deployment.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and robust UI test automation frameworks from the ground up using Java.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable automated test scripts for web applications.
• Collaborate closely with software developers, product managers, and other QA engineers to understand application features and testing requirements.
• Integrate automated testing into our CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) to enable continuous testing and delivery.
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and report defects with clear and concise details in bug tracking systems (e.g., Jira).
• Conduct code reviews for automated test scripts to ensure they meet our quality standards.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior automation engineers on best practices for test automation.
• Stay current with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies in UI test automation and recommend improvements to our processes.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, and retrospectives.
• Help prioritize and assign tasks to team members, ensuring alignment with project timelines and objectives.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constrictive feedback to developers to support growth and development.
• Possess the ability to continuously build a network of talent inside and outside of the company.
• Create mechanisms to help onboard new talent to the organization and be able to mentor others.
• Effectively coach and give feedback to direct reports to help develop talent and support career development
• While managing the team you will be able to apply performance standards and identify resource needs for the team to set and balance goals across team to optimize performance against department goals and employee development. This will include the ability to describe strategic importance of vision inside and outside of the team and to set and articulate expectations around leadership behavior; including role model behavior that exemplifies Citi’s leadership principles.
• Design, implement, and deploy software components and solve difficult problems generating positive feedback.
• Have a solid understanding of development approaches (and how to best use them).
• Able to work independently and with your team to deliver software successfully.
• Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.
• Able to confidently train new team-mates about your customers, what your team’s software does, how it is constructed, tested, operates, and how it fits into the bigger picture
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of relevant experience in an Apps Development role or senior level experience in an Enterprise Architecture role with subject matter expert in one or more areas.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software quality assurance and test automation.
• Strong proficiency in Java programming.
• Proven experience in designing, building, and maintaining UI automation frameworks using tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, or TestNG.
• Hands‑on experience with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) frameworks like Cucumber or JBehave.
• Solid understanding of web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and DOM.
• Experience with version control systems, particularly Git.
• In-depth knowledge of CI/CD principles and experience integrating tests into pipelines.
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving, and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with API test automation (e.g., Rest-Assured, Postman).
• Knowledge of performance and load testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling).
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS).
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Education

Bachelor’s/University degree

Job Family Group

Technology

Job Family

Digital Software Engineering

Time Type

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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