Reporting To: Manager, Head of Quality Assurance

Shift: EMEA (1:30 pm - 10:30 pm IST) (India)

We are seeking an accomplished Senior SDET II with 10-15 years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, AI-enabled testing, test management, and enterprise quality governance, ideally within the financial domain. This role requires a proven leader who can define testing strategy, architect enterprise-grade automation solutions, lead an Automation Center of Excellence (CoE), generate QA KPIs and status reporting, and drive quality-first practices across complex application ecosystems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable financial applications while championing innovation in automation, AI tools for testing, DevOps, and modern quality engineering methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead quality engineering efforts across multiple agile teams and enterprise programs, influencing design, development, testing, and deployment strategies.
- Define and enforce enterprise quality standards, test strategies, automation guidelines, release readiness criteria, and best practices across the organization.
- Lead and mature the Automation Center of Excellence (CoE), including framework governance, reusable assets, automation standards, tool selection, and adoption roadmaps.
- Architect and maintain enterprise-level test automation frameworks for web, API, mobile, backend, database, data integration, and batch systems.
- Drive adoption of AI tools for testing, including AI-assisted test case generation, test data generation, self-healing automation, defect analysis, test maintenance, and risk-based testing.
- Own end-to-end test management activities, including test planning, estimation, execution tracking, defect management, traceability, release sign-off support, and production readiness assessment.
- Drive in-sprint automation, shift-left testing, CI/CD quality gates, and continuous testing practices to accelerate release cycles, Increased scope/test coverage and reduce defect leakage.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, engineering leads, DevOps, business stakeholders,



and vendors to align testing with business priorities and delivery commitments.
- Perform and oversee advanced functional, regression, integration, API, performance, security, accessibility, and data validation testing.
- Ensure end-to-end test coverage across UI, API, database, services, integrations, and downstream systems.
- Mentor and coach SDETs and QA engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning, and quality ownership.
- Champion innovation in automation tools, AI-enabled testing, CI/CD pipelines, observability, DevOps, and modern quality engineering practices.

QA KPI Generation, Governance Status Reporting

- Define, generate, and maintain enterprise QA KPIs, quality metrics, automation metrics, and release health indicators.
- Create and publish QA dashboards and status reports for leadership, including testing progress, defect trends, risks, blockers, environment health, and release confidence.
- Track and report key metrics such as automation coverage, test execution progress, pass/fail trends, defect density, defect leakage, defect aging, escaped defects, test case effectiveness, requirements traceability, automation ROI, sprint quality, and CI/CD quality gate compliance.
- Provide weekly and monthly status reporting across portfolios, programs, releases, and agile teams with clear commentary on quality risks and mitigation plans.
- Analyze QA metrics to identify quality gaps, engineering bottlenecks, regression risk, automation maintenance needs, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Present quality dashboards, automation adoption, release readiness, and strategic recommendations to technology leaders, business stakeholders, and program governance forums.

Required Skills Experience

- 10-15 years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, test automation,



and test management, with significant exposure to financial systems.
- Solid programming expertise in C#, Python, or Java.
- Hands-on experience with modern automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and Appium.
- Advanced API testing and automation skills using Postman, REST Assured, Karate, or similar tools.
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling such as Jenkins, TeamCity, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
- Strong SQL and database validation skills for financial domain, reporting flows, and data reconciliation. Good to have exposure on Snowflake, DBT, Fivetran etc.
- Experience with test management and defect management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Xray, Zephyr, ALM, or equivalent platforms.
- Experience generating QA KPIs, executive dashboards, release status reports, and quality trend analysis using tools such as Power BI, Excel, Jira dashboards, or Azure DevOps analytics.
- Exposure to Salesforce, Adobe AEM, cloud platforms, data platforms, or similar enterprise systems preferred.
- Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or k6 is a plus.
- Hands-on experience or strong exposure to AI-based test automation solutions and AI-assisted engineering tools is required.

AI Testing Automation CoE Experience

- Experience evaluating and adopting AI tools for testing, automation development, test design, defect triage, test data creation, and automation maintenance.
- Hands-on exposure to tools and platforms such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI/Azure OpenAI, Cursor, ACCELQ AI, KaneAI, Testim, Functionize, Mabl, or similar AI-enabled testing solutions.
- Ability to define responsible AI usage guidelines for testing, including security, privacy, data protection, accuracy checks, and human review controls.
- Experience leading automation framework standardization

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📌 Senior SDET II (Mumbai)
🏢 Russell Investments
📍 Mumbai