QA Automation Engineer - Assistant Vice President
Citigroup
**Engineering Excellence GenAI Quality Engineer**
**Job Description**
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with a strong background in banking and financial services, coupled with expertise in leveraging AI for test automation. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our banking applications by designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks. This role requires a blend of technical proficiency, domain knowledge, and innovative thinking to drive efficiency and accuracy in testing processes.
**Key Responsibilities:**
**Test Automation Development** :
+ Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable test automation frameworks using AI-driven tools and technologies.
+ Develop automated test scripts for functional, regression testing of banking applications.
+ Ability to identify the scope and E2E delivery of Automation.
+ Maintenance of Automation framework and repository.
**AI Integration** :
+ Utilize AI and machine learning models to optimize test case generation, execution, and defect prediction.
+ Implement AI-based solutions for intelligent test data generation and anomaly detection.
**Banking Domain Expertise** :
+ Apply knowledge of banking processes, regulations, and workflows to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
+ Collaborate with business analysts and product owners to understand banking requirements and translate them into effective test strategies.
**Quality Assurance** :
+ Analyze requirements of projects, develop test plans, design test cases for broad range of systems and applications and ensure they meet specified standards and end-user requirements.
+ Ensure end-to-end quality of banking applications by identifying risks, creating test plans, and executing test cases.
+ Perform test data requirement, analysis, test data creation and conditioning
+ Monitor and report on test coverage, defect metrics, and overall application quality.
+ Serve as a SME and drive standards, compliance, strategic automation for development tools/frameworks to further improve architecture while driving value.
**Collaboration** :
+ Work closely with development teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
+ Partner with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues early in the development lifecycle.
**Continuous Improvement** :
+ Stay updated with emerging AI technologies and testing tools to continuously enhance testing processes.
+ Drive innovation by introducing new methodologies and tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
**Required Skills and Qualifications:**
**Technical Skills** :
+ Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, VB Script or JavaScript.
+ Extensive experience with test automation tools like Selenium, Playwright or UFT.
+ Proficient Experience with tools such as ALM, JIRA, Zephyr, advanced excel features.
+ Experience in Oracle and SQL queries for test data mining, data generation & conditioning
**Banking Domain Knowledge** :
+ Strong understanding of banking workflows, financial products, and regulatory requirements.
+ Experience testing banking applications such as loan management systems, payment gateways, or risk management platforms.
+ Experience in using mainframe for testing and automation
**Automation/GenAI Expertise** :
+ Experience in **BDD/TDD, Cucumber** framework development
+ Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins.
+ Hands on experience in API testing tools like Postman or SOAPUI.
+ Understanding of **deep learning fundamentals, RAG and LLMs**
+ Experience of **API development** and **integration of models** through APIs.
**Soft Skills** :
+ Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
+ Strong communication and collaboration abilities to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
**Education:**
+ Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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**Job Family Group:**
Technology
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**Job Family:**
Applications Development
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**Time Type:**
Full time
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**Most Relevant Skills**
Please see the requirements listed above.
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**Other Relevant Skills**
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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