Senior Test Lead
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Job Summary
Quality Engineer
Engineer quality across the delivery lifecycle through automation, risk focus and fast feedback.
Programme
Treasury Transformation
Role family
Quality Engineering
Primary location
India-based delivery, integrated with LBG teams
Role purpose
Define and implement a whole-team quality approach spanning user interfaces, APIs, services, data products, integrations, controls and non-functional outcomes.
Role accountabilities
- Create a risk-based test strategy and quality plan aligned to business outcomes and regulatory impact.
- Build automated tests across unit enablement, API, contract, integration, UI, data and end-to-end layers.
- Validate data quality, lineage, transformations, calculations, reconciliations and audit evidence.
- Test security, resilience, recoverability, performance, scalability and operability with specialists.
- Embed tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and make failures actionable.
- Lead defect prevention, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement, not only defect detection.
- Ensure test environments, data and stubs support repeatable delivery.
- Provide transparent quality evidence for release decisions.
Core skills and experience
- Modern test automation for APIs, services, browsers and data pipelines.
- Contract testing, service virtualisation and integration-test design.
- SQL and data-validation techniques for BigQuery and transformed datasets.
- CI/CD integration, test reporting and quality gates.
- Non-functional testing including performance, resilience and security collaboration.
- Risk-based testing in controlled or regulated environments.
Leadership expectations
- Make quality a shared team responsibility and coach engineers in testability and prevention.
- Challenge ambiguous acceptance criteria and control gaps early.
- Use evidence to support balanced release decisions.
- Lead defect triage calmly and focus on systemic learning.
- Promote proportionate automation based on risk and value.
Productivity and delivery expectations
- Shift feedback left and automate repeatable checks to reduce late rework.
- Prioritise critical journeys, data controls and integration risks.
- Maintain fast, reliable test suites and remove flaky tests promptly.
- Use defect escape, rework, automation reliability and feedback time to target improvement, not rank individuals.
Expected behaviours
- Curious, sceptical and constructive.
- Independent-minded while remaining collaborative.
- Transparent about residual risk and evidence gaps.
- Pragmatic about coverage and focused on material outcomes.
- Persistent in improving quality at source.
Evidence of effectiveness
- Automated quality evidence available in pipelines.
- Clear traceability from risks and acceptance criteria to tests.
- Fewer late defects and faster, more confident release decisions.
- Repeatable validation of Treasury data, services and user journeys.
Desirable domain experience
- Financial calculations, regulatory reporting or controlled data processing.
- GCP-based platforms, BigQuery and event-driven integration.
- Audit evidence and release governance in banking.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Engineer
Engineer quality across the delivery lifecycle through automation, risk focus and fast feedback.
Programme
Treasury Transformation
Role family
Quality Engineering
Primary location
India-based delivery, integrated with LBG teams
Role purpose
Define and implement a whole-team quality approach spanning user interfaces, APIs, services, data products, integrations, controls and non-functional outcomes.
Role accountabilities
- Create a risk-based test strategy and quality plan aligned to business outcomes and regulatory impact.
- Build automated tests across unit enablement, API, contract, integration, UI, data and end-to-end layers.
- Validate data quality, lineage, transformations, calculations, reconciliations and audit evidence.
- Test security, resilience, recoverability, performance, scalability and operability with specialists.
- Embed tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and make failures actionable.
- Lead defect prevention,
root-cause analysis and continuous improvement, not only defect detection.
- Ensure test environments, data and stubs support repeatable delivery.
- Provide transparent quality evidence for release decisions.
Core skills and experience
- Modern test automation for APIs, services, browsers and data pipelines.
- Contract testing, service virtualisation and integration-test design.
- SQL and data-validation techniques for BigQuery and transformed datasets.
- CI/CD integration, test reporting and quality gates.
- Non-functional testing including performance, resilience and security collaboration.
- Risk-based testing in controlled or regulated environments.
Leadership expectations
- Make quality a shared team responsibility and coach engineers in testability and prevention.
- Challenge ambiguous acceptance criteria and control gaps early.
- Use evidence to support balanced release decisions.
- Lead defect triage calmly and focus on systemic learning.
- Promote proportionate automation based on risk and value.
Productivity and delivery expectations
- Shift feedback left and automate repeatable checks to reduce late rework.
- Prioritise critical journeys, data controls and integration risks.
- Maintain fast, reliable test suites and remove flaky tests promptly.
- Use defect escape, rework, automation reliability and feedback time to target improvement, not rank individuals.
Expected behaviours
- Curious, sceptical and constructive.
- Independent-minded while remaining cooperative.
- Transparent about residual risk and evidence gaps.
- Pragmatic about coverage and focused on material outcomes.
- Persistent in improving quality at source.
Evidence of effectiveness
- Automated quality evidence available in pipelines.
- Clear traceability from risks and acceptance criteria to tests.
- Fewer late defects and faster, more confident release decisions.
- Repeatable validation of Treasury data, services and user journeys.
Desirable domain experience
- Financial calculations, regulatory reporting or controlled data processing.
- GCP-based platforms, BigQuery and event-driven integration.
- Audit evidence and release governance in banking.
Skill Requirements
Other Requirements
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