Automation Architect

Role Overview

Automation Architect (TOSCA)

This role demands strong banking domain awareness, the ability to translate business processes into automation assets, and leadership in driving large-scale quality transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Automation Architecture & Strategy

• Design end-to-end automation architecture using

  TOSCA

  , ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reusability.
• Define enterprise automation standards, best practices, object models, and governance frameworks.
• Build roadmap for automation adoption, ROI tracking, and continuous improvement.

2. TOSCA Implementation & Technical Leadership

• Lead the design of TOSCA automation frameworks, test assets, reusable components, and accelerators.
• Architect solutions for Web, Mobile, API, Database, and End-to-End system flows using TOSCA modules.
• Implement CI/CD integration with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git, or similar toolchains.

3. Banking Domain Automation

• Translate banking product workflows into automation scripts for:
• Core Banking (CASA, Loans, Payments)
• Digital Channels (Mobile & Internet Banking)
• Cards & Payments
• Risk, Compliance, and Regulatory workflows
• Identify automation opportunities across complex banking journeys such as customer onboarding, KYC, account servicing, transactions, and digital journeys.

4. Stakeholder & Team Management

• Work with business owners, product teams, QA teams, and development leads to define automation scope & priorities.
• Lead and mentor automation engineers on TOSCA best practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps, performance engineering, and environment teams for seamless automation runs.

5. Automation Governance & Quality Management

• Own automation metrics: coverage, defect leakage, script stability, execution health.
• Conduct regular reviews of automation framework health.
• Drive compliance with internal QA governance and banking regulatory requirements.

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years hands-on TOSCA experience

  (Test Design, Execution, API, Query, TOSCA DI, TDS, TCS Frameworks).

• Strong experience designing automation frameworks

  in large enterprise environments.
• Experience integrating TOSCA with

  CI/CD

  tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps).
• Deep understanding of

  automation best practices

  , object modeling, risk-based testing.
• Hands-on with

  Web, Mobile, API automation

  using TOSCA.
• Strong SQL knowledge and ability to work with databases.

Banking Domain Experience (Preferred)

• Experience automating journeys in Mobile/Internet Banking, Core Banking, Cards/Payments.
• Understanding of BFSI processes, controls, and regulatory expectations.
• Experience working with leading banks in India, APAC, or Middle East preferred.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with complementary automation tools (Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, UFT).
• Exposure to Performance Testing or DevOps integration.
• Experience with service virtualization, test data management, and synthetic data generation.
• Knowledge of API gateways, message queues (Kafka), microservices testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• TOSCA Certifications (AS1, AS2, TDS, TQL) strongly preferred.
• ISTQB or equivalent quality engineering certifications are an added advantage.