Lead Test Engineer

Dtcc; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in Hyderabad is hiring a Lead Test Engineer to independently manage Test Engineering teams. The role involves designing test plans, executing automation strategies, and ensuring compliance with quality standards. Ideal candidates will have 5-7 years of experience in automated testing and a strong background in testing methodologies and frameworks. The position enhances collaboration across functional teams and includes mentoring junior engineers, with numerous opportunities to contribute to process improvement.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of related experience in delivering software solutions with hands-on automated testing.
• Proficient in automation at all software layers (UI, services, APIs, etc.).
• Experience mentoring junior test engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage Test Engineering teams for system integration testing.
• Translate business and functional requirements into test scenarios.
• Ensure compliance with processes and documentation standards.
• Track test execution milestones and report on potential issues.

Skills

Automated testing

Agile methodologies

Selenium WebDriver

Java development

Test Automation Frameworks

CI/CD

SQL queries

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

JIRA

Jenkins

Git

Rest Assured

Job description

The impact you will have in this role

The Enterprise Test Engineering ("ETE") family is responsible for ensuring that all applications and systems meet defined quality standards. The ETE family encompasses three major areas including (a) functional testing, (b) non-functional testing, and (c) test architecture and enablement. Other key focuses include regression testing, browser testing, performance testing, capacity and stress testing, resiliency testing, environment management services, and infrastructure testing. Develops, conducts, and evaluates testing processes, working closely with developers to remediate identified system defects. In-depth knowledge of automated testing tools, and quality control and assurance approaches including the creation of reusable foundational test automation framework for the entire organization.

The Lead Test Engineer is responsible for independently leading Test Engineering teams. You will be developing test plans and implementing those plans against the corresponding test procedures. You will be accountable for the development, release, and maintenance of test procedures.

Your Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for system integration testing, including automation, of newly developed or enhanced applications.
• Play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete results.
• Lead, develop, and advise on test automation strategies and provide critical feedback in requirements, design, implementation and execution phases.
• Partner with collaborators - Product Management, Application Development, DevOps and other technical teams.
• Track test execution milestones and report on issues and risks with the potential to affect project timelines.
• Construct appropriate end-2-end business scenarios through the application of a broad understanding of business objectives and goals.
• Responsible for Delivery Pipeline adoption
• Identify dependencies for environmental and data requirements.
• Contribute to standard framework of reusable functions.
• Develop a detailed understanding of the product(s) being delivered.
• Responsible for process compliance & associated documentation
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; raises appropriately.
• Works closely with business and AD domain experts, to continually improve depth and breadth of knowledge for assigned applications/systems.
• Responsible for Project Coordination and Technical Management tasks.

NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of related experience in delivering software solutions with hands on automated testing.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Talents Needed for Success

• Experience in Agile/Waterfall, onsite/offshore work model and coordination.
• In depth knowledge of the software implementation lifecycle (specifically the testing model, methodology, and processes).
• Experience with Test Engineering methodologies and Test Automation Frameworks
• Proficient in automation at all software layers (e.g. UI, services, APIs, etc.) as well as CI/CD technologies (e.g. Cloudbees, Jenkins, Cucumber, Git, JUnit, Jira, etc.).
• Sophisticated Java / Selenium development skills with significant experience applying those skills in test environments.
• Track test execution achievements, report on issues and risks with the potential to affect project timelines.
• Extensive experience with testing modern scripting language-based components.
• Proven expertise in frontend test automation using Selenium WebDriver.
• Expert and hands on with backend test automation using Rest Assured/Karate for API testing. JDBC/JPA for database testing (Oracle/ DB2/ Snowflake).
• Experience in writing sophisticated SQL queries.
• Experience with JIRA, ALM, Bitbucket, Git, and Jenkins.
• Requires the ability to work with both business clients and technical team and the ability to work independently, both individually and as part of a team.
• Experience in mentoring junior test engineers, verifying work products and providing mentorship, as needed.
• Unix, Python and AWS experience in a plus.
• Accountable for process compliance & associated documentation
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; raises appropriately.
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and written and verbal communication skills.