Test Lead with Automation and API testing expertise, (AVP)

Position Overview

Job Title:Test Lead with Automation and API testing expertise, AVP

Location: Pune - Magarpatta, India

Role Description

Our Investments - agile teams at Deutsche Bank - Private Bank (TDI) develop and maintain applications for securities business of Private Customers. Changes are generally announced on short notice due to regulatory requirements or time to market challenges. Quality and stability has priority together with time to market.
By working in an Agile DevOps model, acting a pilot for Investments and actively improving the model, we achieve very high quality while continuously delivering value to our clients. Located in Germany and India, we work closely together using agile and virtual collaboration techniques and our team's diversity to reach our goals of continuous deployment, process improvement and internalizing engineering know how.
As a Quality and Testing Engineer you will closely work together with business and operation units and bring functional testing, test management and test automation skills to enforce the development team within a Squad. You will extensively make use and apply test automation concepts and practices in the context of Deutsche Bank's digitalization journey.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy

Best in class leave policy
Gender neutral parental leaves
100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
Flexible working arrangements
Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
Accident and Term life Insurance
Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your Key Responsibilities

You are involved in the Software Development Lifecycle starting from analyzing requirements, maintaining test cases, developing test automation features and testing software - continuously improving these topics.
Develop/ support test automation strategy for large complex projects in AGILE methodology.
Develop / support non-functional testing automation strategy for large complex projects in AGILE methodology.
Contribute to team agile planning activities and backlog prioritization and management.
Collaborates with product line stakeholders to understand and develop strategies, frameworks relating to their emerging demands.
Driving innovation/adoption of Industry practices through investigation/institutionalization of new tools/methods/standards.
Ensures that testing activities are being conducted in accordance with the testing strategy and plan.
Perform and achieve in sprint testing team and release goals.
Create test documents like: Test Plan, Test Risk Assessments, and Test Results and make sure that they are reviewed and approved by appropriate stakeholders.
Participate in estimation of User Stories in Story points.
Create, Automate and Execute test cases to cover all user stories acceptance criteria and honor timely deliveries.
Increase the test coverage and test speed by automating all possible test cases.
Create and develop test automation frameworks.
Integrate test automation framework into CI/CD pipeline.
Ensure test flakiness is at a minimum.
Participate and help in knowledge transfer sessions when necessary.
Defect's submission, monitoring, and retesting
Keep demo sessions to prove acceptance criteria are met.
Coordinate the preparation of test environments.
Define and create all test data / test data generators needed for the tests.
Maintain regression test pack.
Align with dev team to understand the integration with different systems to execute System Integration Testing
Provide regular status reporting to scrum team.
Verify entry/exit criteria for all SIT, UAT phases.
You actively participate and contribute into the sprint activities and ceremonies e.g. daily stand-up, Sprint planning, retrospectives, refinements etc.
You collaborate with other team members to achieve the sprint objectives

Your Skills and Experience:

Strong experience in requirements analysis for test case creation and test execution of user stories using tools like Quality Centre/ALM, Confluence , Jira ,SOAP UI, Filetransfer, SQL developer,
Strong experience in development of Test Automation features usingUFT (unified functional testing) and/ or Selenium with Java
Experience in API testing is a must. Experience in Postman is an additional benefit.
Open for manual testing for at least a year in parallel to identifying automation candidates.
Individual contributor with an attitude to learn and deliver.
Pro-active team player with good communication skills as well as good English language skills.
Experience with Agile/SCRUM environment including agile tooling and methodology together with Knowledge of investment business and its operations.

Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

How we'll support you

Training and development to help you excel in your career
Coaching and support from experts in your team
A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

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We strive for a in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.