Automation Engineering Lead (qa), Avp

State Street UK

United Kingdom
Qa automation strategy
Ui and api automation frameworks
Automation best practices
This role scales QA effectiveness by strengthening automation practices, improving release confidence, and ensuring quality is embedded across the delivery lifecycle

Job Summary

  • This role scales QA effectiveness by strengthening automation practices, improving release confidence, and ensuring quality is embedded across the delivery lifecycle.
  • Define and drive QA automation strategy aligned with CRD and CRPM objectives and lead design, evolution, and governance of UI and API automation frameworks.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Architecture teams on quality expectations and mentor QA engineers to improve technical depth and execution quality.

Matching Summary

This role scales QA effectiveness by strengthening automation practices, improving release confidence, and ensuring quality is embedded across the delivery lifecycle.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • QA automation strategy
  • UI and API automation frameworks
  • automation best practices
  • Agile/Scrum at scale
  • CI/CD pipelines integration

Nice-to-have

  • performance testing experience
  • financial platforms testing

Key Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in software QA
  • 15+ years of experience in automation
  • Strong hands-on UI and API automation
  • Proven experience designing and scaling automation frameworks
  • Proficiency in Java
  • Manual testing, test strategy, and risk-based testing experience
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum at scale
  • Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills

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