Role Name - QA Automation Lead
EXPERIENCE_RANGE_IN_REQUIRED_SKILLS_ HiTech : Automation Testing


ROLE_DESCRIPTION -

Role SummaryWere seeking a Test Automation Lead (SDET) with 5 years leading multiteam QA programs, to drive engineering-quality practices across complex banking platforms and integrations.
You will architect automation frameworks, embed quality into CICD, and lead a team of SDETsQA engineers to deliver reliable, compliant releases at speed.
Experience in BFSI systems (core banking, payments, digital channels) and hands-on coding for test automation is essential. Key Responsibilities Automation Architecture Delivery
- Design, implement, and scale UIAPIDB automation frameworks (Selenium javaUFT, RestAssuredPostman, CucumberBDD, TestNGJUnit).
- Integrate automated suites into CICD (Azure DevOpsJenkinsGitLab) with quality gates, parallelization, test impact analysis, and artifact publishing.
- Establish coding standards for test harnesses, mocks, data builders, and service virtualization enforce code reviews and static analysis for test code. DomainFocused Testing (Banking)
- Translate banking use cases (core depositsloans, ACHwires, cardpayments, digital banking) into robust automated scenarios and data validations.
- Partner with product owners and vendor teams (e.g., Fiserv, internal platforms) to triage defects, validate patcheshotfixes, and maintain regression beds. Program Leadership Governance
- Lead a squad of SDETsQA engineerscapacity planning, mentoring, and upskilling on advanced automation topics.
- Orchestrate defect triage, rootcause analysis, and riskbased test planning own release readiness (gonogo) and rollback validation.
- Drive shiftleft practices (contract testing, API first, early data checks) and shiftright observability (synthetic monitoring, production validation dashboards). Compliance Security
- Ensure test evidence meets BFSI regulatoryaudit needs (SOX) automate traceability from user stories to test results and logs.
Required Qualifications
- 1012 years in software testingquality engineering, with 5 years leading SDETautomation teams.
- Strong handson coding in JavaC (or equivalent) for test automation (frameworks, utilities, custom drivers).
- Proven delivery of CICDintegrated automation at scale expert in test design for microservices, REST APIs, and eventdriven systems.
- BFSI domain experiencecore banking or paymentsand vendorplatform collaboration (e.g., Fiserv) for patchregression cycles.
- Solid grasp of SQL and data validation familiarity with logsmetrics (SplunkSumoGrafana) for test diagnostics.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with OSATstyle regression accelerators or similar enterprise frameworks comfortable with shiftleftshiftright test strategies.
- Performance testing (JMeterLoadRunner)
- ISTQB (Advanced), AgileSAFe, or cloud certifications (AzureAWS).
Tools Stack (Illustrative)
- Automation Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, RestAssured, Postman, CucumberBDD, Appium (mobile) - CICD SCM Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub A