Automation Testing Engineer

Overview

Automation Testing Engineer role focused on driving product quality and delivery through test automation, with particular emphasis on generative AI, toward a fully automated platform with minimal manual QA intervention.

What you'll do

• Drive product quality and delivery through automation initiatives, especially in generative AI, targeting a fully automated platform with minimal manual QA intervention.
• Collaborate with development teams and Product Owners to formulate comprehensive requirements and propose innovative, efficient solutions.
• Define and drive the strategy for quality automation, overseeing testing priorities, road mapping for releases, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a central point of contact for interdepartmental communication, ensuring alignment and seamless collaboration across project impacts.
• Provide technical expertise, mentor mid-level developers and analysts, and establish standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Proactively assess risk, ensure compliance with laws and regulations, and maintain clear, concise communication across all organizational levels.
• Utilize knowledge of application development procedures and concepts to identify and implement system enhancements, including coding, scripting, configuration, testing, and deployment activities.
• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated regression, functional, integration, and end-to-end test suites to ensure high-quality software releases across market applications.
• Build and enhance test automation frameworks and tooling to improve test coverage, execution efficiency, and defect detection capabilities.
• Manage and support CI/CD pipelines, release automation processes, and DevOps tooling to align with enterprise engineering standards and continuous delivery objectives.
• Collaborate with development, business, and infrastructure teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Consult with users, clients, and technology teams on application issues and recommend programming, testing, and deployment solutions.
• Apply programming and automation knowledge to develop technical solutions, test scripts, utilities, and reusable components that improve development and quality processes.
• Analyze applications to identify vulnerabilities, security concerns, performance issues, and functional defects, and conduct testing, debugging, and root cause analysis.
• Contribute to UI development and support front-end enhancements where required to meet business and regulatory commitments.
• Provide manual testing support and serve as backup for critical testing activities to ensure delivery continuity during resource absences or peak release periods.
• Monitor release quality metrics and proactively identify risks that may impact production stability, regulatory compliance, or delivery timelines.
• Serve as an advisor or coach to new or lower-level analysts and promote testing and engineering best practices across the team.
• Identify problems, analyze information, and make evaluative judgments to recommend and implement practical solutions.
• Resolve issues by applying technical expertise, engineering standards, and established precedents.
• Operate with limited direct supervision and exercise independent judgment in decision-making.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for application quality, automation testing, CI/CD processes, and release management practices.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to policy, and escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency.

What you'll need

• 5 - 7 years of experience in Application Development, Test Automation, Quality Engineering, DevOps, or related technology roles within the Financial Services industry.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated test frameworks using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, UFT, or equivalent automation technologies.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, release management processes, defect lifecycle management, and quality assurance best practices.
• Experience working with Java, Python, JavaScript, C#, or other modern programming/scripting languages.
• Knowledge of source control systems and modern software development practices.
• Experience supporting mission-critical applications and collaborating across development, testing, and infrastructure teams.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, continuous testing, and enterprise engineering standards.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work under pressure, and meet aggressive delivery timelines.
• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in Capital Markets, Fixed Income, FX, Money Markets, or related financial products.

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India.
• Time type: Full time.
• Job family group: Technology; job family: Applications Development.