The company is seeking a highly skilled Lead Test Automation Engineer to drive the bank's enterprise-wide test automation strategy across digital channels, core banking platforms, APIs, mobile applications, and integration layers. This hands-on leadership role involves building scalable automation frameworks, accelerating CI/CD quality delivery, improving test coverage, and reducing manual testing effort across mission-critical banking platforms. You will collaborate closely with Development, DevOps, Product, and Quality Engineering teams to establish automation excellence, implement shift-left testing practices, and ensure robust quality gates throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and scaling of enterprise-wide test automation frameworks across web, mobile, API, and core banking platforms.
- Build and maintain robust regression suites that enhance test coverage, execution speed, and defect detection while minimizing manual testing effort.
- Drive automation adoption throughout the software development lifecycle by integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and quality gates.
- Lead testing initiatives for API, integration, mobile, and performance testing across critical banking applications and customer journeys.
- Define standards and best practices for automation, coding guidelines, and governance across internal and vendor teams.
- Manage test data, environment readiness, and automation reporting to ensure reliable and repeatable test execution.
- Collaborate with Engineering, DevOps, Product, and Quality teams to embed quality and testability into solution delivery.
- Mentor and develop automation engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
- Support intelligent automation, RPA testing, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance delivery quality and efficiency.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree plus 8-10 years of software testing experience, including at least 3 years in leading automation initiatives within banking or financial services environments.
- Strong expertise in automation framework design using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, WebDriverIO, Appium, and Maestro.
- Hands-on programming experience with Python/PyTest; working knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, or Java.
- Proven experience in API automation, performance testing, and integration testing across complex enterprise applications.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab, including containerized and parallel test execution.
- Familiarity with test data management, SQL validation, service virtualization, and automation reporting frameworks.
- Solid understanding of retail and business banking systems, digital channels, and quality engineering best practices.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging capabilities to identify and resolve complex quality issues.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills with a passion for mentoring and developing high-performing teams.
Preferred Skills:
- Expertise in web, mobile, API, and performance test automation using Playwright, Selenium, WebDriverIO, Appium, Maestro, K6, and JMeter.
- Strong programming capabilities in Python/PyTest with familiarity in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Java.
- Hands-on experience in API and contract testing using Postman, Newman, REST Assured, and BDD frameworks such as Cucumber and Behave.
- Proven experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, Docker, and cloud execution platforms.
- Skilled in service virtualization, test data management, synthetic data generation, SQL/database validation, and log/API trace analysis.
- Experience with Azure DevOps Test Plans, Jira, UiPath Test Suite, RPA testing, and intelligent automation workflows.
Language Requirements:
- Proficiency in English is expected.
The company, established in 1976, has evolved into one of the UAE’s most dynamic financial institutions, combining smart digital innovation with genuine human connection to serve diverse customer segments through its various banking groups.
