Quality Automation Specialist, AVP

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