WoW - Quality Automation Specialist

NatWest Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Chennai, India, is seeking an associate level Quality Automation Specialist to drive automated testing across delivery models. You will design and evolve predictive testing approaches, write reusable automation scripts, and integrate quality into the idea-to-value lifecycle with cross-domain collaboration.

The role focuses on building scalable automated tests, leveraging Appium and Python, in Agile CI/CD environments to ensure defect-free deployments and faster time-to-market.

Qualifications

• Experience with automated testing in Agile/CI/CD environments.
• Ability to design and develop complex automation code.
• Knowledge of mobile automation using Appium and Python.

Responsibilities

• Design automation test strategies aligned to goals.
• Develop reusable automated tests across domains.
• Create automated test scripts and artefacts.
• Ensure quality standards across product lifecycle.

Skills

Automated testing

Agile methodologies

CI/CD

Automation coding

Tools

Appium

Python

Selenium WebDriver

POM

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 associate 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. 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
• Actioning and 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 from 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

• Seeking a Mobile Automation QA Engineer with 3 to 5 years experience & expertise in Appium, Python to automate testing for mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms.
• Develop and maintain mobile automation test scripts using Appium, Python, Selenium WebDriver, and Page Object Model (POM). Design and enhance robust automation frameworks with locator strategies, synchronization techniques, explicit waits, and exception handling.
• Perform mobile testing across Android (UiAutomator2) and iOS (XCUITest), including device registration and app lifecycle validation. Build data-driven automation frameworks using Python, Excel (OpenPyXL/Pandas), JSON, and reusable test utilities.
• Validate push notifications, emojis, and dynamic content through notification automation and cross-app verification techniques.
• Troubleshoot automation failures using ADB Commands, Appium Inspector, screenshots, screen recordings, and log analysis to improve test stability and coverage.
• Basic knowledge of SQL for backend data verification and test data mining