Job Description:
Lead the automation testing strategy and implementation for enterprise Pega applications.
Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI, API and end-to-end testing.
Identify suitable candidates for automation and maximise regression coverage.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and establish automated quality gates.
Lead and develop the automation and quality engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:
Define automation strategy, roadmap, tooling selection and ROI model.
Design and maintain reusable automation frameworks - hybrid, data-driven, keyword-driven, BDD/Cucumber, Page Object Model.
Develop automated UI/API test scripts, handling Pega's agile DOM in Constellation and traditional UI.
Lead automation of Pega-specific layers - Pega Scenario Testing, Pega Automated Unit Testing (AUT) and rule-level coverage.
Automate and optimise regression test suites; drive regression cycle time down and coverage up.
Integrate automation with CI/CD - Deployment Manager, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.




Own test data management strategy, synthetic data generation, masking and workplace refresh coordination.
Manage test data and settings.
Lead performance and load test strategy (JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling) and interpret Pega PAL, DB Trace and PDC output.
Analyse automation results and investigate automation failures and flakiness.
Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis and prevention actions.
Track and report automation coverage, pass rate, execution time and quality metrics.
Establish testing standards, code review practice and version control discipline for test assets.
Mentor automation engineers and allocate work across the team.
Collaborate with Pega developers and architects on testability and shift-left practice.
Provide quality sign-off and go/no-go recommendations at release gates.
Evaluate emerging tooling, including AI-assisted test generation and self-heal

📌 Automation Test Lead Bengaluru (India)
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