The Senior Automation Engineer manages test automation, engineering, and DevOps practice across Group IT, which includes defining, designing, and enhancing test automation frameworks, designing DevOps CI/CD pipeline solutions, and managing proof of concept for any new test automation tools into the company landscape.
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Key Responsibilities
- Define, design, and implement enterprise-grade test automation frameworks, maintaining and enhancing them for new requirements, and augmenting automation with AI-driven capabilities such as intelligent test generation, failure analysis, and test optimisation.
- Develop and embed best practices in Test Automation, DevOps, and CI/CD, incorporating AI-enabled validation and decision-making to support shift-left quality, security, and performance controls.
- Implement and support test automation, RPA, and AI-driven automation solutions across service lines, enabling scalable, reusable, and data-driven automation adoption across Group IT.
- Define and build automation platforms and tools to support Group IT automation initiatives, leveraging UiPath RPA and AI components (e.g., Document-Understanding, OCR, machine-learning models) for intelligent process and test automation.
- Design and implement DevOps CI/CD solutions, integrating automated testing, RPA workflows, and AI-assisted validation into pipelines to enable end-to-end, touchless delivery.
- Identify, evaluate, and implement test automation, RPA, and AI-based tools, ensuring responsible and governed use of AI to enhance automation effectiveness, accuracy, and efficiency.
- Champion an automation-first and AI-enabled approach, embedding intelligent automation into delivery standards and GIT policies to reduce manual effort, improve quality, accelerate time-to-market, and drive measurable cost efficiencies.
Requirements
- A seasoned IT professional with 14+ years of diversified experience in Test Automation, Functional Testing and DevOps including GitLab CI/CD with core competencies in Selenium, Cucumber, Core Java, VB, Docker, Kubernetes, UFT, and IBM tool and service Virtualization.
- Specialist in designing Test Automation frameworks in Selenium Java using BDD Cucumber for web and mobile applications.
- Comprehensive experience in creation and maintenance of GitLab repository, creating end-to-end pipeline architecture, setting up GitLab CI/CD and deployment to Kubernetes platform using helm chart, and on-premise deployment.
- Expertise with cloud platforms providing mobile test solutions like BrowserStack.
- Strong decision-making capability under complex and strenuous conditions of large critical initiatives (e.g., merger, UAE workday changes, DR testing of bank merger).
- Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss, and explain issues coherently and logically, both in writing and verbally.
