About the role
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor quality engineering teams, overseeing quality assurance across all commerce tracks and ensuring the integrity and reliability of deliverables.
- Design, implement, and optimise automation frameworks and test strategies for complex backend systems, REST APIs, Kafka-dependent applications, NoSQL document databases, and cloud-based deployments.
- Validate and automate test cases for systems leveraging event-driven architectures and cloud infrastructure (AWS or other providers).
- Integrate test cases with CI and CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align testing activities with release goals and business priorities.
- Drive continuous improvement in test processes, defect management, and automation coverage, proactively identifying and addressing gaps in test execution.
- Facilitate technical training and development for team members to elevate overall quality standards.
- Coordinate the scheduling and execution of testing and report errors and issues for resolution.
- Contribute to the identification and ongoing monitoring of risks and concerns.
- Review and approve test scripts and automation flows, ensuring best practices are followed across all commerce initiatives.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 4+ years of hands-on experience in automation scripting for large-scale applications.
- At least 4+ years of experience working with backend systems, RESTful APIs, and validating/automating test cases for applications dependent on Kafka event streaming.
- At least 4+ years of experience in Spring Boot and Java application development and automation.
- Prior experience integrating automation test scripts with CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong expertise with NoSQL document databases (e. g., MongoDB, DynamoDB, Couchbase) and experience testing solutions deployed on AWS or other major cloud platforms.
- Proven ability to manage distributed and offshore quality engineering teams.
- Excellent communication, organisational, and technical problem-solving skills.
- At least 5+ years of cumulative experience with backend automation testing frameworks, including but not limited to Tricentis Tosca, Smartbear ReadyAPI, Cucumber BDD, and Karate BDD.