Job Description: Senior Automation & AI Testing Lead Bangalore
Location: Bangalore India
Experience: 10 years
Role: Senior Automation Test Lead / QA Lead Automation & AI
Industry: Banking & Financial Services
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Automation & AI Testing Lead with a strong background in leading large testing teams designing robust automation strategies and working across complex banking and financial systems. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in automation frameworks AIdriven testing practices and endtoend test governance within enterpriselevel missioncritical environments.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead mentor and develop large cross-functional testing teams (manual automation API performance and AI-based testers).
- Provide strategic direction for quality engineering initiatives and establish best practices for automation AI adoption and test accelerators.
- Drive continuous improvement across test processes productivity and automation coverage.
Automation & AI-Driven Testing
- Architect design and maintain enterprise automation frameworks for web API mobile and backend systems.
- Lead implementation of AI-driven testing solutions such as creation of AI Testing agents intelligent test generation predictive defect analytics self-healing automation and NLP-based testing.
- Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous testing and faster release cycles.
- Evaluate and implement modern tools (Selenium Playwright Cypress RestAssured Appium Postman Cucumber TestNG/JUnit Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps etc.).
- Ensure scalable test automation aligned with business-critical banking workflows.
Domain Expertise Banking & Finance
- Work closely with domain SMEs and product owners to understand complex banking flows:
Lending Payments Cards Credit Risk Fraud Management Core Banking Digital Banking Compliance & Regulatory Testing. - Lead validation of highly secure high-availability financial platforms.
- Ensure adherence to compliance standards (PCI-DSS SOC risk frameworks audit requirements).
Quality Governance & Delivery
- Define test strategy automation roadmap KPIs and quality metrics for large programs.
- Oversee end-to-end testing across functional regression integration security UAT and performance.
- Communicate risks progress and quality status to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Ensure timely delivery of testing deliverables across concurrent releases.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10 years of experience in QA with at least 5 years leading large test teams.
- Strong experience in automation frameworks scripting languages (Java/Python/JavaScript) and testing tools.
- Hands-on expertise in AI-driven testing tools and concepts:
- Self-healing frameworks
- AI-assisted test generation
- Predictive analytics for defect trends
- Model-based testing
- Deep understanding of banking and financial services domain.
- Advanced knowledge of CI/CD DevOps Git cloud execution (BrowserStack SauceLabs).
- Strong communication stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration skills.
Nice-to-Have
- Exposure to microservices testing and contract testing.
- Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter Gatling).
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP).
- Experience in automation for data validation ETL or backend systems.
- Certifications: ISTQB Certified Agile Tester Automation Tools Certifications or AI/ML Testing credentials.
Education
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering IT or a related field.
SYNECHRONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds race ethnicities religion age marital status gender sexual orientations or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements mentoring internal mobility learning and development programs and more.
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