Quality Automation Specialist, AVP

Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital XIn everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

• In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
• We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
• You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level
  

What you'll do
Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll be making sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market.It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.Additionally, you’ll be:

• Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
• Evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
• Collaborating with stakeholders and feature teams and making sure that automated testing is performed and monitored as an essential part of the planning and product delivery
• Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
• Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements
  

The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with ten years of experience in automated testing, design and create a low maintenance suite of stable re-usable automated tests which are usable both within the product or domain and also across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity. You'll also collaborate with stakeholders and feature teams and make sure automated testing is performed and monitored as an essential part of the planning and product delivery.You’ll also support the design and implementation of testing automation frameworks easily maintainable by quality automation specialists and assist in the use of efficient and effective processes, standards and test metrics in to order continuously improve the quality automation service.We’ll also look for you to have:

• Experience in tools like UFT, Selenium, Postman, GitLab, Cucumber, AI tools and expertise in programming language like JAVA, Python, VB macro and Frameworks of BDD, TDD, TestNG
• Seek and rely on continuous feedback, keeping up to date with and promoting best practice in quality automation methods, tools, techniques and standards, to maximize the customer experience and reduce test cycle time
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to management level colleagues
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills