Role Overview

This associate vice president–level role plays a key part in enabling high-quality, automated testing across all delivery models. The Quality Automation Specialist supports feature teams to deliver defect-free customer value through continuous integration, automation-led assurance, and modern quality engineering practices. The role offers strong exposure across platforms, domains, and stakeholders, with significant opportunities for professional growth.

Key Responsibilities

Undertake and enable automated testing activities across multiple delivery models
Support teams in building quality-driven solutions with continuous integration and assurance
Contribute to the transformation of testing through modern quality processes, tools, and methodologies
Ensure repeatable, consistent, and scalable quality is embedded across the full idea-to-value lifecycle
Collaborate with cross-domain, platform, domain, and feature teams to embed quality as a core delivery principle
Support the design of automation test strategies aligned to business and programme objectives
Develop predictive and intelligent testing approaches using automation and innovative testing solutions
Work closely with stakeholders and feature teams to ensure automated testing is planned, executed, and monitored throughout delivery
Design and maintain low-maintenance, stable, and reusable automated test suites for end-to-end testing across systems and domains
Apply testing and delivery standards in line with product development lifecycles, regulatory, and compliance requirements

Required Skills and Experience

Deep expertise in data validation and reconciliation testing for ETL pipelines
Strong experience in microservices testing within Agile and CI/CD environments
Minimum of twelve years of experience in automation testing, preferably within AWS-based ecosystems
Proven ability to design scalable automation frameworks for data engineering workflows and service-oriented architectures
Strong experience with AWS services including S3, Glue, and EMR
Hands-on experience with Airflow and CI/CD pipelines using GitLab Runner
Proficiency in Python or Java for building automation frameworks, with flexibility to adapt to project needs
Experience using PySpark and SQL for data validation, transformation, and reconciliation testing
Expertise in microservices testing including API testing using REST or GraphQL
Experience with tools such as Postman, REST Assured, PyTest, and contract testing frameworks like Pact
Experience with integration testing, performance testing, and resilience testing for distributed systems
Familiarity with enterprise tooling frameworks for end-to-end automation testing
Exposure to Playwright for UI-related validation is desirable
Hands-on experience with Selenium for UI automation testing
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to senior stakeholders
Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills with a solution-oriented mindset

Quality Automation Specialist

Quality Automation Specialist, AVP