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Position: Test Automation Lead (SDET)

Location: Stamford, CT (Onsite)

Duration: 6+ months

Description:
Role Summary:
We’re seeking a Test Automation Lead (SDET) with 5 years leading multiteam QA programs, to drive engineering-quality practices across complex banking platforms and integrations.

You will architect automation frameworks, embed quality into CICD, and lead a team of SDETs QA engineers to deliver reliable, compliant releases at speed.

Experience in BFSI systems (core banking, payments, digital channels) and hands-on coding for test automation is essential.  Key Responsibilities Automation Architecture Delivery

– Design, implement, and scale UIAPIDB automation frameworks (Selenium java, UFT, Rest Assured Postman, Cucumber, BDD, TestNG, JUnit).

– Integrate automated suites into CICD (Azure DevOps Jenkins, GitLab) with quality gates, parallelization, test impact analysis, and artifact publishing.

– Establish coding standards for test harnesses, mocks, data builders, and service virtualization enforce code reviews and static analysis for test code. Domain Focused Testing (Banking)

– Translate banking use cases (core deposits loans, ACH, wires, card payments, digital banking) into robust automated scenarios and data validations.

– Partner with product owners and vendor teams (e.g., Fiserv, internal platforms) to triage defects, validate patches, hotfixes, and maintain regression beds. Program Leadership Governance

– Lead a squad of SDETs QA engineers capacity planning, mentoring, and upskilling on advanced automation topics.

– Orchestrate defect triage, root cause analysis, and risk-based test planning own release readiness (gonogo) and rollback validation.

– Drive shift left practices (contract testing, API first, early data checks) and shift right observability (synthetic monitoring, production validation dashboards). Compliance Security

– Ensure test evidence meets BFSI regulatory audit needs (SOX) automate traceability from user stories to test results and logs.

Required Qualifications

– 10 to 12 years in software testing, quality engineering, with 5 years leading SDET automation teams.

– Strong hands-on coding in JavaC (or equivalent) for test automation (frameworks, utilities, custom drivers).

– Proven delivery of CICD integrated automation at scale expert in test design for microservices, REST APIs, and event driven systems.

– BFSI domain experience core banking or payments and vendor platform collaboration (e.g., Fiserv) for patch regression cycles.

– Solid grasp of SQL and data validation familiarity with logs metrics (Splunk, Sumo, Grafana) for test diagnostics.

Preferred Skills

– Experience with OSAT style regression accelerators or similar enterprise frameworks comfortable with shift left shift and  right test strategies.

– Performance testing (JMeter, LoadRunner)

– ISTQB (Advanced), Agile Safe, or cloud certifications (Azure, AWS).

Tools Stack (Illustrative)

– Automation Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Rest Assured, Postman, Cucumber, BDD, Appium (mobile)  – CICD  SCM Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub A

Education: At least a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or closely related field is required.