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Automation Lead

Your key responsibilities:

  • Lead the delivery of testing activities, plans and processes for complex products or services

  • ensuring product quality. Also, facilitates resource planning and resolution of issues that may

  • impede the test effort and drives continuous improvement.

  • Responsible for the design, development and support of test cases for functional and nonfunctional domains

  • Lead the identification of the test scope and test environment set-up needs, prepares test plans,

  • identifies relevant metrics and keeps track of required effort for large initiatives

  • Hands-on experience authoring, building and adopting large-scale, automation frameworks with

  • well-balanced coverage across UI, functional, API and back-end integration (including end-to-end

  • automation) and experience with different test automation approaches

  • Generate / Review test reports and act on recommendations for product or design changes

  • Drive the evaluation, recommendation, and implementation of testing procedures and strategies

  • ensuring alignment to functional / non-functional requirements

  • Supports in identifying product quality risks based on the high-level solution architecture

  • Develop trusted relationships with other engineering groups and key business stakeholders to

  • evaluate, recommend and implement testing procedures for products, systems, components or

  • modifications

Skills and attributes for success:

  • An ideal candidate will have a thorough understanding of testing lifecycle, agile frameworks and

  • knowledge of Quality Management techniques. Problem solver, strong automation skillsets,

  • strategical approach and excellent communication skills

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related field and more than 9 years of

  • relevant work experience

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work within a team and in

  • collaboration with different teams

  • Other Strengths required are Customer centricity, Innovative Thinking, Agility and Intercultural

  • Sensitivity

  • Experience working virtually in a globally dispersed team

  • Project management experience in an engineering / test environment

  • Good understanding and hands on in Testing, Automation Testing, Performance testing concepts,

  • Agile methodology and Knowledge on cloud Infrastructure and database concepts

  • Should be able to work in collaboration to drive/implement automation strategy and guide the

  • team.

  • Experience with different test automation approaches using the tools Selenium with Java / Python -

  • Knowledge at scripting/coding level

  • Experience in leading multiple Testing teams and deliver quality product by implementing Testing

  • standards and processes

  • Excellent written and verbal communication and team management skills

  • Proficiency in handling Key Performance Indicators and Metrics

  • Data Testing Management

  • Ability to understand and integrate with cultural differences and engage with virtual cross-cultural,

  • cross-border teams

  • Proficiency managing/implementing Control Version

Ideally, you’ll also have:

  • Lean certification or Six Sigma Green/Black Belt

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