QA Automation Engineering Lead - VP

About Citi :

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services

Citi’s Functions Technology is responsible for delivering Technology solutions to Citi's Functions organizations. Functions Technology mission is to optimize Citi's Technology environment by delivering world class applications, driving standardization of the production environment, reducing complexity, optimizing management of systems supporting global functions such as Compliance, Controls, Internal Audit and Risk, and introducing innovative technologies that provide new business capabilities, reduce the technology total cost of ownership, and create a competitive advantage for Citi.

Responsibilities :

Implement and lead the QA automation frameworks for integration, functional, regressions and performance tests.

Mentor and coach the automation engineers to implement adequate tests suitable for web applications, APIs, and Data.

Review the test designs, test plans, and test cases to ensure the coverage.

Develop QA metrics to measure the QA automation effectiveness.

Work in an agile environment following through the best practices of agile Scrum.

Analyze the requirements, seek clarifications, contribute to good acceptance criteria, estimate, and be committed.

Create test plans that are smart and adequate to ensure the product quality and stability.

Write the test cases and automate the test executions to ensure acceptance criteria is met.

Develop automated regression test suites for continued assurance of product quality.

Perform UAT tests that mimic the end-to-end user scenarios.

Validate production by running the sanity tests, and data validations.

Lookout for providing best possible customer support by troubleshooting, resolving production incidents and by eliminating the problems from the root level.

Bring innovative solutions to reduce the operational risks by automating mundane repetitive tasks across SDLC.

Familiarize with AWS cloud, prepare to migrate applications, services, and data to AWS.

Qualifications :

10 years of QA automation engineering experience in developing enterprise scale applications.

Expertise in QA automation frameworks for functional, regression and performance tests like Selenium, Cucumber, Soap UI, JMeter, Load Runner etc.

Expertise in QA automation of data flows, data analysis, and SQL.

Expertise in testing for non-functional requirements.

Expertise in testing enterprise integrations through RESTful APIs, Kafka messaging etc.

Understanding of application architectures, data models, search engines, caching solutions, file management, on-prem, private / public cloud infrastructures etc.

Familiarity with Authentication, Authorization, and Security.

Expertise in troubleshooting and problem solving.

Familiarity with AWS cloud, prepare to migrate applications, services, and data to AWS.

Education :

• Bachelor’s / University degree or equivalent work experience

Job Family Group : Technology

Job Family : Technology Quality

Time Type : Full time

Primary Location :

Irving Texas United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range :

114,720.00 - $172,080.00

In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including : medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Anticipated Posting Close Date :

Sep 17, 2024

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Salary : $114,720 - $172,080