Quality Automation Specialist

NatWest Group; Chennai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Quality Automation Specialist in Chennai, India. The role focuses on automated testing across delivery models and enabling continuous integration and defect-free deployments to deliver customer value.

You will work with feature teams and stakeholders, shaping automation strategies and tests to improve quality while reducing time to market and cost. This is a senior analyst level position offering exposure to professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience in automated testing within Agile/CI/CD environments.
• Ability to design and implement automation strategies aligned to goals.
• Strong collaboration with stakeholders and teams to improve quality.

Responsibilities

• Define automation test strategies aligned to business goals.
• Evolve predictive and intelligent testing approaches using automation.
• Refine scope of manual and automated testing and create scripts and artefacts.
• Design low-maintenance, reusable automated tests across domains.
• Apply testing standards considering product lifecycle and compliance requirements.

Skills

Automated testing

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Automation framework design

Stakeholder collaboration

End-to-end testing

Tools

Automation frameworks

Job description

Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

• 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 senior analyst 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 make 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, making sure that any defects are identified as early as possible.

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 to refine the scope of manual and automated testing required, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts
• 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 in an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You’ll be an innovative thinker who can identify opportunities and design solutions, coupled with the ability to develop complex automation code.

You’ll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature.

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