Senior Test Automation Engineer - Vice President
Citi · Pune · 12+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18
Tech stack: AWS, Azure, GCP, Java, Jenkins, Python, SQL
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About the role
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: - Define, plan, and execute testing automation strategy for CitiFTP.
- Continuously monitor automation coverage and enhance the existing automation framework to increase the automation coverage.
- Design Develop, and Implement scalable and maintainable automation frameworks for UI, API, and data validation testing on Big Data/Hadoop platform.
- Collaborate with other testing areas, development teams, product owners, and business partners to integrate automation into the agile SDLC.
- Enhance the efficiency of regression, and end-to-end testing using automation.
- Develop robust test scripts and maintain automation suites to support rapid software releases.
- Improve overall test coverage, defect detection, and release quality through automation.
- Establish and track key QA metrics e.g. defect leakage, test execution efficiency, automation coverage.
- Advocate for best practices in test automation, including code reviews, re-usability and maintainability.
- Drive the adoption of AI/ML-based testing tools and emerging trends in test automation.
- Manage, mentor, and upskill a team of test engineers in automation practices.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the testing community.
- Define career development paths and ensure team members stay up to date with industry advancements.
- Analyze trends at an organizational level to improve processes; follows and analyzes industry trends.
- 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Qualifications: - 12+ years of experience in functional and non-functional software testing
- 5+ years of experience as Test Automation Lead
- Expertise in test automation frameworks / tools like Jenkins, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Junit, Cypress.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Python or any other programming or scripting language.
- Expertise in SQL.
- with API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured) and performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner)
- Expertise in build tools like Maven / Gradle, continuous integration tools like Jenkins, source management tools like Git/GitHub.
- Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices.
- Strong knowledge of functional Test tool (JIRA).
- Familiarity with cloud-based test execution
- AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Familiarity with big data testing (Spark, HDFS) and database testing automation (Oracle, SQL).
- Experience with AI-driven test automation and advanced test data management strategies.
- Candidate should have to curiosity to research and utilize various AI tools available in the space of test automation.
- Certifications such as ISTQB Advanced, Certified Agile Tester, or Selenium WebDriver certification
- Exposure to banking / financial domains, particularly Treasury applications is a plus
- Requires communication and diplomacy skills and an ability to persuade and influence
- Hands on in code review, unit testing and integration testing
- Very Confident, innovative, self-motivated, aggressive and results oriented
- Ideal candidate should be passionate about automation in quality engineering
- Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred
Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in functional and non-functional software testing
- 5+ years of experience as Test Automation Lead
- Expertise in test automation frameworks / tools like Jenkins, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Junit, Cypress.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Python or any other programming or scripting language.
- Expertise in SQL.
- with API testing tools (Postman, RestAssured) and performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner)
- Expertise in build tools like Maven / Gradle, continuous integration tools like Jenkins, source management tools like Git/GitHub.
- Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices.
- Strong knowledge of functional Test tool (JIRA).
- Familiarity with cloud-based test execution
- AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Familiarity with big data testing (Spark, HDFS) and database testing automation (Oracle, SQL).
- Experience with AI-driven test automation and advanced test data management strategies.
- Candidate should have to curiosity to research and utilize various AI tools available in the space of test automation.
- Certifications such as ISTQB Advanced, Certified Agile Tester, or Selenium WebDriver certification
- Exposure to banking / financial domains, particularly Treasury applications is a plus
- Requires communication and diplomacy skills and an ability to persuade and influence
- Hands on in code review, unit testing and integration testing
- Very Confident, innovative, self-motivated, aggressive and results oriented
- Ideal candidate should be passionate about automation in quality engineering
- Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred
Responsibilities
- Define, plan, and execute testing automation strategy for CitiFTP.
- Continuously monitor automation coverage and enhance the existing automation framework to increase the automation coverage.
- Design Develop, and Implement scalable and maintainable automation frameworks for UI, API, and data validation testing on Big Data/Hadoop platform.
- Collaborate with other testing areas, development teams, product owners, and business partners to integrate automation into the agile SDLC.
- Enhance the efficiency of regression, and end-to-end testing using automation.
- Develop robust test scripts and maintain automation suites to support rapid software releases.
- Improve overall test coverage, defect detection, and release quality through automation.
- Establish and track key QA metrics e.g. defect leakage, test execution efficiency, automation coverage.
- Advocate for best practices in test automation, including code reviews, re-usability and maintainability.
- Drive the adoption of AI/ML-based testing tools and emerging trends in test automation.
- Manage, mentor, and upskill a team of test engineers in automation practices.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the testing community.
- Define career development paths and ensure team members stay up to date with industry advancements.
- Analyze trends at an organizational level to improve processes; follows and analyzes industry trends.
- 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.