Lead Automation Engineer

What You will Do

• Lead the design, development, and scaling of enterprise-wide test automation frameworks across web, mobile, API, and core banking platforms.
• Build and maintain robust regression suites that improve test coverage, execution speed, and defect detection while reducing manual testing effort.
• Drive automation adoption across the software development lifecycle by integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and quality gates.
• Lead API, integration, mobile, and performance testing initiatives across critical banking applications and customer journeys.
• Define automation standards, best practices, coding guidelines, and governance across internal and vendor teams.
• Own test data management, environment readiness, and automation reporting to ensure reliable and repeatable test execution.
• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, Product, and Quality teams to embed quality and testability into solution delivery.
• Mentor and develop automation engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Support intelligent automation, RPA testing, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance delivery quality and efficiency.

What You will Bring

Preferred Skills

• Expertise in web, mobile, API, and performance test automation using Playwright, Selenium, WebDriverIO, Appium, Maestro, K6, and JMeter.
• Strong programming capabilities in Python/PyTest with working knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, and Java.
• Hands-on experience in API and contract testing using Postman, Newman, REST Assured, and BDD frameworks such as Cucumber and Behave.
• Proven experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, and cloud execution platforms.
• Skilled in service virtualization, test data management, synthetic data generation, SQL/database validation, and log/API trace analysis.
• Experienced with Azure DevOps Test Plans, Jira, UiPath Test Suite, RPA testing, and intelligent automation workflows.