Job Description

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Job Title: Automation QA Engineer
Corporate Title: Associate
Location: Pune / Bangalore
Role Description
Quality Assurance (QA) is responsible for ensuring testing strategies, plans and deliverables are executed for all applications and programmes of work within their domain.
Work includes:

• Designing and conducting testing procedures and frameworks to verify software and other technical products to ensure expected functional performance
• Investigating instances where software and technical products do not perform as expected
• Designing and conducting quality assurance practices to support business development activities
• Driving the adoption of recognized best practice and policy and contributes to the ongoing improvement of methodologies and assets for the business
• Working with their counterparts across the business to raise the standard of QA across the bank
• Recording of defects and the collation of metrics and KPI information for reporting purposes
• Testing disciplines include: Performance Testing, Test Automation, Test Processes, Testing Products

What we'll offer you
As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using standard testing frameworks like Cucumber BDD.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to understand application features and create robust, comprehensive automation test suite for API and UI
• Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins) to ensure continuous testing and deployment.
• Develop and execute performance, load, and stress testing strategies to ensure application reliability and scalability.
• Analyze test results, provide detailed reports, and work to improve test coverage, traceability, and efficiency.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in test automation.
• Strong proficiency in Java and experience with automation frameworks like Serenity BDD, Cucumber, Gatling etc.
• Hands-on experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), CI/CD tools (e.g.Jenkins), and build tools (e.g. Gradle).
• Experience in testing RESTful APIs and web services.
• Familiarity with database testing, including SQL queries and data validation in RDBMS, Oracle DB
• Knowledge of BDD/TDD methodologies and tools like Cucumber
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams
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We at DWS are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that embraces dialogue and diverse views, and treats everyone fairly to drive a high-performance culture. The value we create for our clients and investors is based on our ability to bring together various perspectives from all over the world and from different backgrounds. It is our experience that teams perform better and deliver improved outcomes when they are able to incorporate a wide range of perspectives. We call this #ConnectingTheDots.