Testing Automation Tech Lead Analyst - C13

Job Description

The Testing Tech Lead Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Responsibilities:

• Supports Initiatives related to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process and product rollout into production. Testing specialists who work with technology project managers, UAT professionals and users to design and implement appropriate scripts/plans for an application testing strategy/approach.
• Has excellent retail banking domain expertise –
  • Investment - Capital Markets, Mutual Funds, Brokerage, Equity, Insurance and Treasury.
  • Data – DWH, Bigdata systems, Cloud platforms AWS, Google cloud, Snowflake
  • Digital - Mobile (IOS and Android), Web (Angular)
  • Banking & Lending– Retail, Term Deposit, Payments, Customer demographics and relationships, Mortgage
  • Cards – Equal payment plan, Payment features, Rewards, Wallets, Authorization & Fraud, Collections
  • Onboarding – Customer/Product onboarding
  • Non-Functional testing – Performance, Chaos, Component, Capacity analysis and Mobile device NFR
• Plans, conducts and manages a broad range of systems and application testing deliverables for IT projects.
• Obtains detailed specification from business users and development to ascertain specific output information requirements.
• Works with other teams to develop integrated methodologies for testing end-to-end transactions in order to ensure that IT Testing is delivering a quality product to users in an established timeframe.
• Analyzes and communicates test results to project teams; recommends appropriate course of action.
• Provides accurate and precise estimates for assigned task duration and work effort, along with confidence level, and foreseeable dependencies.
• Monitors projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, managing risks / issues, and taking corrective action as necessary to meet project deadlines.
• Has impact on IT testing by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services to others.
• Acts as advisor and mentor for junior members of the team. Resolves a variety of complex issues through evaluative judgment and analytical thought.
• Exhibits comprehensive knowledge of several areas within IT testing and has a good understanding of the industry.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in QE or Systems Analysis
• Ability to effectively use complex analytical, interpretive and problem solving techniques
• Requires communication and diplomacy skills to guide, influence and convince others.
• Ability to organize/manage multiple priorities and projects coupled with the flexibility to adapt to changes in a fast-paced environment

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree in Computer Science, Master’s degree preferred

• A good understanding of Testing life cycle, processes, tools and experience in Quality engineering

• Solid experience of a modern long term support version of Java (Object oriented design/Lambdas & Streams /Executors/Generics etc.,)
• Hands on expertise in Automation Testing frameworks including knowledge in Selenium, Rest Assured (API testing), TestNG, BDD, and Appium
• Hands on experience in Python/PySpark for developing utilities for Data Analysis using libraries like Pandas, NumPy etc.
• Experience in other programming language as C#, Bash/Shell scripting will be an added advantage.
• Expert use of source control using Bitbucket/GitHub
• Extensive experience of continuous integration methodology using TeamCity, Jenkins or Tekton
• Good knowledge in systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (AppDynamics, Splunk, etc.)
• Experience of integrating with messaging technologies such as Solace, Kafka, EMS
• Experience with relational databases, preferably Oracle; good skills at integrating SQL into Java applications using a preferred framework (Spring JDBC etc.)
• Experience in Mobile testing using perfecto will be an added advantage

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