This role is responsible for delivering high-quality automated testing and quality engineering outcomes as a Lead Engineer QA Automation Engineer within a regulated banking and GenAI platform environment. The role requires strong understanding of Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office banking workflows, along with hands-on expertise in industry-standard test automation tools and frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

· Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for UI, API, and backend services.

· Validate Front Office workflows such as trading, sales, client onboarding, and decision-support systems.

· Test Middle Office processes including risk calculations, controls, approvals, and regulatory reporting workflows.

· Ensure quality of Back Office operations such as settlements, payments, reconciliations, and exception handling.

· Develop and execute automated test suites using Selenium for UI automation.

· Implement behavior-driven testing using Cucumber to validate business scenarios.

· Develop API and backend tests using PyTest, JUnit, or equivalent frameworks.

· Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous quality validation.

· Collaborate closely with developers, GenAI engineers, and business analysts to prevent defects early.

· Ensure test coverage, defect tracking, quality metrics, and reporting meet enterprise standards.

Required Skills & Experience

· Strong experience with test automation tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, PyTest, and JUnit.





· Experience designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks.

· Hands-on experience testing UI, API, microservices, and data pipelines.

· Good understanding of Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office banking processes and controls.

· Experience testing distributed, cloud-native, and containerized applications.

· Familiarity with CI/CD tools and integrating automated tests into pipelines.

· Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

· Excellent collaboration and communication skills in cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

· Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science.

· 12-18 years of hands-on software engineering and technical leadership experience.

· Robust experience in banking or regulated financial services environments.

· Deep expertise in Silenium, Cucumber – Automated testing

· Hands-on experience with Python for testing.

· Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

· Strong understanding of Front Office, Middle Office, and Back Office banking processes.

Success Measures

· Stable, scalable, and secure GenAI platform in production.

· Predictable delivery of platform and POD milestones.

· Positive audit, risk, and compliance outcomes.

· High engineering quality and platform adoption across FO, MO, and BO teams.

· Strong, effective collaboration with Product and business stakeholders.

📌 IIQ - Lead QA Automation Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Crisil
📍 Pune