Test Automation Lead
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead QA Engineering Initiatives:
- Design and build custom QA engineering tools and frameworks to accelerate quality automation across teams.
- Drive shift-left quality practices, enabling developers to perform integration and automation testing early in the SDLC through self-service tooling.
- Automation & Tooling:
- Architect and develop advanced test automation frameworks beyond traditional UI-based automation.
- Build tools for test evidence collection, reporting, and end-to-end traceability of requirements.
- Implement continuous integration and continuous testing pipelines tightly integrated with CI/CD systems. ยท Performance Testing Expertise
- Lead performance testing efforts and create custom performance testing tools, leveraging and extending frameworks like Gatling to meet specific business needs.
- Cloud-Native QA Practices:
- Implement QA solutions tailored for cloud-native environments.
- Leverage technologies like Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, and microservices architectures to enable scalable and robust quality engineering practices.
- Collaboration & Leadership:
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to integrate quality processes and tools seamlessly into their workflows.
- Mentor and guide QA engineers and developers on best practices for testing and automation.
- 10+ years of experience in QA Engineering with a focus on test automation and tooling development.
- Strong software engineering skills in languages like Java, Scala.
- Experience in Investment Banking Project
- Proven experience building in-house QA tools and frameworks for integration, system, and performance testing.
- Solid experience with performance testing tools (e.g., Gatling, JMeter) and extending them with custom capabilities.
- Experience with web automation frameworks like Playwright, and mobile test automation frameworks (e.g., Appium, Detox)
- Expertise in cloud-native technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and experience testing microservices architectures.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps workflows, and infrastructure as code.
- Strong focus on end-to-end requirements traceability and tooling for evidence tracking and reporting.
- Experience in driving shift-left testing practices and enabling self-service quality automation for development teams.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills; ability to influence technical direction and quality culture across teams.