AWS Platform Engineer - Senior Manager

Job Title

AWS Cloud QA Lead - Officer

Role Summary & Role Description

A key member AWS Cloud team under our Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE); you will be responsible to drive design and implementation of best-in-class AWS Cloud Infrastructure to support State Street’s security, governance, and workload requirements

We are seeking a QA Lead with strong expertise in testing AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, and security. The ideal candidate will have experience designing and executing testing strategies for AWS services, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring high reliability, security, and compliance. This role requires a deep understanding or integration, functional, unit, regression, test coverage, security, and compliance testing, along with hands-on experience using JIRA for test case management and Confluence for documentation

The ideal candidate should have proven experience leading and managing a QA team, mentoring testers, driving a culture of quality in cloud-based environments, is able design and implement robust and automated solutions to support State Street’s security, governance, and workload requirements.

The QA Lead will work closely with engineering, security, DevOps, and platform teams to build and execute a scalable testing strategy for AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and security compliance.

What you will be responsible for

As an AWS QA Lead you will

• Defining and implementing test strategies for AWS cloud infrastructure, Terraform modules, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Leading integration, functional, unit, and regression testing for AWS services.

• Implementing automated and manual testing frameworks for Terraform (e.g., Terratest, Checkov, Sentinel, OPA).

• Building and optimizing automated testing frameworks for

• Validating AWS deployments using AWS security and compliance tools (Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, etc.).

• Ensuring CI/CD pipelines are tested and validated within AWS CodePipeline, Harness, and GitHub Actions.

• Static Code Analysis & SAST

• Ensuring security and compliance checks are integrated into CI/CD pipelines within AWS CodePipeline, Harness, and GitHub Actions.

• Managing and tracking test cases, security findings, and compliance reports in JIRA.

• Documenting test plans, infrastructure testing workflows, and validation processes in Confluence.

• Collaborating with DevOps, security, and engineering teams to improve testing coverage and automation.

• Working directly with the project team to understand the business requirements that will help define the overall test plans in order to execute test cases via automated tools.

• Responsible for gathering Business requirements from stakeholders, creating user stories, use-case design and analysis and specifications, scenarios, workflow diagrams, process flows and technical documentation. Involved in entire life cycle, which includes Designing, Developing and Execution of the entire Quality Assurance Process.

• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and involving in entire QA Life Cycle, which includes Designing, Developing and Execution of the entire Quality assurance Process.

• Reviewing and understanding business requirements, User stories, functional specifications and building test cases based on requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Analyzing Test Scenarios and design/convert to automation scripts.

• Create test scenarios and implement automated functional test cases that will serve as acceptance test criteria for platform engineering.

• Provide high quality validation and coverage of cloud services and infrastructure for Platform engineering team.

• Ensure Software Quality Assurance State Street internal process followed in the project to avoid audit and compliance requirements.

• The individual in this position will collaborate with peers on cross-functional teams to deliver high quality solutions, providing software quality assurance through all stages of the platform engineering life cycle.

• Working directly with users, analysts and developers to understand business process and the applications under test in order to deliver high quality software solutions to our clients

• Willing to learn new technologies and push the boundaries of test automation to achieve measurable efficiencies.

• Ensuring proper procedures and controls are in place throughout the testing process based on playbook defined using Agile-Kanban methodologies.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Leadership & Team Development – We expect the QA Lead to mentor, coach, and empower a team of testers, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous learning.

• Strong AWS Knowledge – Understanding AWS core services, networking, IAM, security, monitoring, and compliance frameworks is essential.

• Automation & Efficiency – We believe in reducing manual testing efforts through automated security and infrastructure testing frameworks.

• Collaboration & Accountability – The QA Lead should take ownership, drive process improvements, and proactively align quality assurance with cloud engineering goals.

• Security & Compliance – We ensure AWS security best practices are validated through rigorous testing.

• Scalability & Reliability – We aim to build and maintain highly reliable AWS environments with strong test coverage.

• Leadership skills be able to inspire, persuade and influence courageously and persuade

• Good understanding of AWS native services along with with cloud native design patterns and DevOps principles (Infrastructure as Code).

• Strong Platform test automation experience in any of the cloud environments.

• Automation focused and engineering mind set.

• Ability to drive automation and demonstrated continuous improvement, quality methodology and project/operations delivery skills.

• Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills that are required to operate and navigate a complex organization as a leading member of global, distributed teams that deliver quality services and solutions.

• Ability to rapidly gain knowledge of the organizational structure of the firm to facilitate work with groups outside of the immediate team.

• Ability to quickly troubleshoot and diagnose issues within the quality assurance environment and communicate that knowledge to a varied audience of technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Translates business goals, features concepts and customer needs into the prioritized use cases.

• Individual contributor to one of the projects assigned whether you will be responsible for setting up QA methodologies to ensure effective deliverables.

• Ability to rapidly gain knowledge of the organizational structure of the firm to facilitate work with groups outside of the immediate team.

• Strong understanding of cloud native design patterns and DevOps principles (Infrastructure as Code).

• Openness and ability to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment.

• Self-motivated and passionate individual Team player; Ability to effectively communicate ideas and escalate issues across teams in a timely manner.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• 10+ years of overall experience in software testing, QA automation, and cloud infrastructure testing, with a strong focus on AWS services, security, and CI/CD pipelines.

• 5+ years of experience leading and managing QA teams, driving test strategy, mentoring engineers, and implementing automation frameworks for infrastructure as code (Terraform), AWS security testing, and CI/CD validation.

• Financial services or regulated industry experience a huge plus

• Experience in regulated environments (financial services, healthcare, etc.) is preferred. Has context menu

• Proven leadership experience in managing QA teams, defining testing strategies, and mentoring engineers.

• Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, Lambda, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Harness, OPA, Control Tower, etc.).

• Experience in regulated environments (financial services, healthcare, etc.) is preferred.

• Knowledge of DevSecOps, cloud security, and penetration testing best practices.

• Strong programming and scripting background in languages such as shell scripts, python, Java.

• Experience in designing, coding and deploying Terraform.

• Demonstrated experience in full stack automation and AWS service enablement

• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or AWS Security – Specialty are a plus.

Core/Must have skills

• EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53, VMC on Cloud, SDDC, EBS, EFS, Workspaces & Direct Connect, Cloud Front, DynamoDB, RedShift, EKS

• AWS Networking Concepts, App Migrations to AWS Cloud

• AWS High Availability, Landing Zone, Elastic Load Balancing, Virtualization

• VMC on AWS, SDDC, NetApp-OnTap on AWS, AWS & ServiceNow Integration

• Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible

• JIRA, Confluence

• Team Building Skills

• Excellent Communication Skills

• Excellent Product Management Skills

• Agile Working

Good to have skills

• Multi-Cloud Compliance

• Security & Vulnerability

Work Schedule

• No Hybrid Working. It is fully Working from Office

• Schedule – 3 pm to 12 am IST

• Location – Bangalore or Hyderabad only (Candidates not willing to relocate need not apply)

Keywords (If any)

#AWS #Terraform #AWSCloudFormation #AWSRoute53 #AWSVPC #AWSLandingZones #AWSVMC #AWSMigration #AWSEKS