• Responsible for requirement analysis and test plan design, test data preparation with wide coverage of functionalities, Test automation framework creation and its maintenance, general QA activities which includes defect reporting and tracking, effective stakeholder engagement, creating automation scripts and utilities using Python, PL/SQL and SQL, CI/CD and materialize automation and innovation opportunities to improve productivity.
• Contribute towards QA Automation to increase Test Coverage, maintain and share automation progress and stats with management
• Evaluate and engineer test data throughout the software development life cycle.
• Participate in Agile Activities and contribute to achieving defined goals for each sprint
• Automation of test scenarios and redundant manual tasks using innovative ideas is primary focus
• Work with team to understand business scenarios and automate those in selenium, Java, Python or any other scripting language
• Work within the team as well as work with various stakeholders including clients, global teams geographically located in different regions
• Build an understanding of the product on a technical and functional level, understand the context of our clients, participate in solution design, drive testing activities, and deliver solutions that address the business needs
• Work with the Business Analyst and Solution Architect as well as with experienced people in team to understand projects requirements, identify requirement gaps, functional risks so that these can be addressed early in the process. 
• Evaluate test data and/or engineer test data to be used throughout the software development life cycle
• Drive all phases of test execution and documentation including functional, regression, performance, usability, integration and acceptance testing.
• Work closely with other team members like Developers, BAs in a team to ensure better turnaround for issue resolution and change implementation
• Implement processes to improvise quality of deliverables, create and maintain repository of documents
• Ensure quality of newly build or enhanced features and regression test to make sure nothing is broken

What you bring (Experience Level & Mandatory Skills in potential candidate):

Technical Experience –

• Hands-on experience in Automation Framework Design using Python, CI/CD (Jenkins), Kafka, Docker
• Experience in Automation Framework Design in selenium, GIT, Java good to have

• Hands on experience in functional and Automation testing (Backend and Frontend) and thorough understanding of industry wide QA processes
• Proficiency in SQL, including creating complex queries to pull data from multiple tables using joins.
• Deep knowledge of BFSI/Capital Markets domain and related middle and back office processes.
• Strong understanding of the Trade Life Cycle.
• Familiarity with message brokers such as Kafka and Rapid MQ.
• Understanding of UNIX/Linux commands and scripting preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines, goals and objectives within assigned time.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Self-starter with a proactive attitude.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.