QA Automation Testing Manager

Job Role: QA Automation Testing Manager

Location: Stamford, CT

Job Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

We re 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.

DomainFocused 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, rootcause analysis, and riskbased test planning; own release readiness (go/nogo) and rollback validation.
• Drive shiftleft practices (contract testing, API first, early data checks) and shiftright 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 handson coding in Java/C# (or equivalent) for test automation (frameworks, utilities, custom drivers).
• Proven delivery of CI/CDintegrated automation at scale; expert in test design for microservices, REST APIs, and eventdriven 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 OSATstyle regression accelerators or similar enterprise frameworks; comfortable with shiftleft/shiftright 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