Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X
In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.
So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.
Job Description
Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.
This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.
Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist
- In this key role, you'll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
- We'll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
- Working in a fast paced environment, you'll benefit from great variety in your work as well as excellent exposure as you work closely with a variety of people across the bank
- We're offering this role at vice president level
What you'll do
As a Quality Automation Specialist, you'll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You'll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value life cycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market, to guarantee that any defects are identified as early as possible.
It's a highly collaborative role, in which you'll have the chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.
Additionally, you'll be:
- Evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
- Collaborating with your team to define and refine the scope of manual and automated testing, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts
- Making sure decisions are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management
- Enabling the cross skilling of colleagues with the skills and benefits of end-to-end automation testing
The skills you'll need
We're looking for someone with twelve years of experience of automated testing, particularly in an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You'll have technical understanding of how to test ETL transformations, data streaming pipelines, API calls, Microservices, UI elements and No-SQL databases using manual and automated techniques
You'll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies and experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature and manage testers and workloads across multiple workstreams.
We'll also look for you to have:
- Experience in owning testing governance i.e test strategy, test plans , test completions reports and TiCRS
- A background in collaborating with stakeholders and feature teams and making sure that automated testing is performed and monitored
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with Business Analysts, Solution Designers, Project Managers and Scrum Masters to ensure that the data is fit for purpose and will be tested in accordance with project deadlines and P3M governance
- Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
