IT Quality Sr Analyst - Assistant Vice President

Citi; Chennai District; On-site; INR 8,00,000 - 12,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial institution is seeking a Test Engineer to drive modern, automation-first testing approaches within a collaborative team. This role requires expertise in Java, Python, or JavaScript development and experience with test automation frameworks like Selenium. The ideal candidate will contribute to defining acceptance criteria and producing quality metrics while enhancing the team's quality engineering capabilities.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of overall IT experience with 5+ years as a Test Engineer.
• Intermediate to advanced level experience with Java, Python or JavaScript.
• 3+ years of experience with Test Automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve test plans for complex applications.
• Create trusted test automation with high reliability.
• Work with test automation frameworks for new business functionality.
• Assess and advise on the testability of user stories.

Skills

Java

Python

JavaScript

Test Automation frameworks

Debugging skills

Excellent communication

Problem-solving

Modern quality engineering tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science

Tools

Selenium

Junit

Nunit

Robot Framework

SonarQube

Snyk

Jenkins

GitLab

CircleCI

Job description

Overview

The Role: Test Engineering is how we bring a modern, automation-first, and team-based approach to testing software and data services. Our Core Principles align with Agile principles and seek to empower our Test Engineer team members to have conversations, establish behaviors, and set expectations that promote Agile concepts. As a Test Engineer, you will bring your expertise in software quality techniques and tools to a collaborative, team-based environment. You will dive into the technical details, collaborating to design an optimal testing approach. You will work across multiple tech stacks and implement automation using a variety of tools. As a champion of quality, you will enable the team to maintain and improve velocity. Your growing experience and learning mindset enable you to take on a variety of new challenges and establish areas of expertise. You will have opportunities to share your knowledge and help us continually elevate the Quality Engineering capability.

As a Test Engineer, you should have experience working in an agile team-based environment where you consistently added velocity to the team. You confidently use code to build reliable, trusted test automation. You will be expected to help define clear acceptance criteria, facilitate defect triage, and produce quality metrics. You may have built deep expertise in a particular area of modern software quality, or you may have a breadth of experience across technology solutions. Your learning mindset enables you to take on new challenges to expand and deepen your skills across a wide variety of technology stacks. A computer science-based mindset is needed; a technology-based education is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evolve test plans for complex applications.
• Deconstruct business requirements into tests that optimize for coverage and risk (95% target test coverage).
• Create trusted test automation with high reliability and relevancy (95% target test automation).
• Work with test automation frameworks to implement automation for new business functionality.
• Assess and advise on testability of user stories, including acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements, and the definition of done.
• Work closely with engineering teams and demonstrate strong debugging skills.
• Share what you learn with your team and other members of the organization, such as recommending new tools/processes needed to enhance productivity and quality.

Qualifications

• 9+ of overall IT experience with 5+ years working as a Test Engineer or similar role
• 3+ year of experience with Java, Python or JavaScript development (intermediate - advanced level)
• 3+ years of experience working with Test Automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Junit, Nunit, Robot, etc.)
• Experience developing functional tests (e.g., integration, interface/API testing and unit testing)
• Experience with web service technologies (e.g., XML, REST, SOAP)
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing non-functional tests (i.e., performance testing, load testing, stress testing, security testing, etc.)
• Strong technical individual contributor - experienced with modern quality engineering tools
• Experience with black-box and white-box testing
• Knowledge of various deployment strategies (i.e., Blue/Green, Canary, A/B, etc.)
• Experience with BDD and TDD
• Experience with Code Quality tools (e.g., SonarQube)
• Experience with Security Scanning tools (e.g., Snyk, BlackDuck)
• Experience with CI tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI)
• Passion for excellence in product quality and reliability
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Job Details

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Technology Quality

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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