QE - Banking - Senior - NonFunctional and Automation
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) Specialist / Senior Non-Functional Test Engineer with strong automation expertise to lead and elevate non-functional quality across enterprise banking platforms. This role demands deep technical and domain expertise, ownership of NFR strategy, and the ability to drive cross-team alignment on performance, resilience, security, and observability outcomes. Operating in an offshore (India) model, the role requires high autonomy, leadership through influence, and the ability to deliver audit-ready, measurable results at scale.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead non-functional testing and engineering initiatives across performance, resilience, security, usability, and observability domains.
- Design and implement advanced performance engineering practices, including workload modeling, benchmarking, capacity planning, and system tuning recommendations.
- Must have automation & test engineering maturity, should be able to build scalable NFR test frameworks and components using Java or TypeScript, following Test as Code principles with reusable and standardized assets
- Drive resilience engineering through failure experiments, recovery validation, and robustness verification across distributed systems.
- Oversee security test engineering aligned with OWASP Top 10, including misconfiguration detection and validation of security controls, along with interpretation of DAST/SAST outputs.
- Establish repeatable usability and accessibility validation practices aligned with WCAG standards,
ensuring evidence-based quality checks.
- Define and validate observability and operability readiness, including SLIs/SLOs, alert effectiveness, and runbook completeness.
- Lead CI/CD integration of NFR validation with threshold management, trend-based gating, flakiness control, and environment-aware execution.
- Define and govern NFR requirements, ensuring measurable criteria, validation strategies, and audit-ready evidence standards.
- Drive advanced root cause analysis across teams using logs, metrics, traces, and code-level insights, ensuring closure and validation of fixes.
- Own and structure NFR validation using Jira (Xray), including test design, execution tracking, reporting, and KPI measurement.
- Act as a remote lead by aligning stakeholders, preparing decision-ready materials, and ensuring seamless collaboration across time zones.
- Proactively identify risks, provide impact analysis, and define mitigation strategies with clear recommendations.
- Standardize NFR approaches across teams through templates, frameworks, and reusable best practices while mentoring and coaching team members.
Skills and attributes for success
- Must-Have
- Strong banking domain knowledge, including core banking processes and channels.
- Broad understanding of technology across all layers (UI/browser, APIs, services, databases, networking, IAM, proxies/WAF).
- Extensive hands-on experience in non-functional testing across performance, resilience, security, usability, and observability.
- Automation capability with Java or TypeScript (Python optional) and experience with Test-as-Code practices.
- Experience integrating NFR checks into CI/CD pipelines with quality gates and monitoring.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills for root cause identification and performance optimization.
- Expertise in defining measurable NFR criteria, designing tests, and ensuring traceability with supporting evidence.
- Experience using Jira (Xray) for test management and reporting.
- Beneficial
- Experience with Temenos or similar core banking platforms and integration patterns.
- Solid expertise across multiple tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, K6, JMeter, Gatling, OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Tempo/Loki, and Tableau.
- Experience in defining enterprise-level performance, resilience, and security strategies.
- Experience in coaching teams or leading communities of practice to enhance NFR maturity.
- Soft Skills
- Strong leadership through influence, aligning cross-functional teams without formal authority.
- High ownership mindset with proactive risk identification and mitigation planning.
- Excellent communication skills, especially in high-pressure scenarios such as incidents or tasks.
📌 Testing - Performance - Senior Professional (Chennai)
🏢 EY
📍 Chennai