QA Automation Manager

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I hope youre doing well. I had a chance to review your profile and wanted to discuss a full-time hire position with our client a major Systems Integrator.
Please review the JD below and let me know if you would be interested in exploring the opportunity.

Job Title: QA Automation Manager

Location: Stamford CT ( Onsite )

Duration: Fulltime Hire

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Were seeking a QA Automation Testing Manager (SDET) with 10 years leading multiteam QA programs to drive engineering-quality practices across complex banking platforms and integrations. You will architect automation frameworks embed quality into CI/CD and lead a team of SDETs/QA engineers to deliver reliable compliant releases at speed. Experience in BFSI systems (core banking payments digital channels) and hands-on coding for test automation is essential.

Job description

• Automation Architecture & Delivery
• Design implement and scale UI/API/DB automation frameworks (Selenium java/UFT RestAssured/Postman Cucumber/BDD TestNG/JUnit).
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD (Azure DevOps/Jenkins/GitLab) with quality gates parallelization test impact analysis and artifact publishing.
• Establish coding standards for test harnesses mocks data builders and service virtualization; enforce code reviews and static analysis for test code.

Domain Focused Testing (Banking)

• Translate banking use cases (core deposits/loans ACH/wires card/payments digital banking) into robust automated scenarios and data validations.
• Partner with product owners and vendor teams (e.g. Fiserv internal platforms) to triage defects validate patches/hotfixes and maintain regression beds.

Program Leadership & Governance

• Lead a squad of SDETs/QA engineers-capacity planning mentoring and upskilling on advanced automation topics.
• Orchestrate defect triage root cause analysis and risk based test planning; own release readiness (go/no go) and rollback validation.
• Drive shift left practices (contract testing API first early data checks) and shift right observability (synthetic monitoring production validation dashboards).
• Compliance & Security
• Ensure test evidence meets BFSI regulatory/audit needs (SOX); automate traceability from user stories to test results and logs.

Required Qualifications

• 10 12 years in software testing/quality engineering with 5 years leading SDET/automation teams.
• Strong hands on coding in Java/C# (or equivalent) for test automation (frameworks utilities custom drivers).
• Proven delivery of CI/CD integrated automation at scale; expert in test design for microservices REST APIs and event driven systems.
• BFSI domain experience-core banking or payments-and vendor/platform collaboration (e.g. Fiserv) for patch/regression cycles.
• Solid grasp of SQL and data validation; familiarity with logs/metrics (Splunk/Sumo/Grafana) for test diagnostics.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with OSAT style regression accelerators or similar enterprise frameworks; comfortable with shift left/shift right test strategies.
• Performance testing (JMeter/LoadRunner)
• ISTQB (Advanced) Agile/SAFe or cloud certifications (Azure/AWS).

Generic Managerial Skills If any

• Tools & Stack (Illustrative)
• Automation: Selenium Cypress Playwright RestAssured Postman Cucumber/BDD Appium (mobile)
• CI/CD & SCM: Azure DevOps Jenkins GitLab GitHub Actions; Git
• Test Management : Azure Test Plans ALM/Octane Zephyr/Xray
• Data/DB: SQL Server Oracle PostgreSQL; TDM/masking tools
• Observability: Splunk/Sumo Grafana/Prometheus; quality dashboards

Thanks & Regards

Sumit Goyal

Sr. Technical Recruiter