Test Automation Enablement Engineer

Test Automation Enablement Engineer is responsible for accelerating test automation adoption across Functions Technology.  This includes automation tool development, helping to streamline the tool onboarding process, improving automation onboarding experience, and helping to build test automation frameworks. This role will also help teams integrate test automation into Lightspeed pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a technology subject matter expert for internal and external stakeholders and provide direction for all firm mandated controls and compliance initiatives, all projects within the group and in creating a technology domain roadmap

• Ensure that all integration of functions meet business goals

• Define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements

• Recommend product customization for system integration

• Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes

• Exhibit knowledge of how own specialty area contributes to the business and apply knowledge of competitors, products and services

• Advise or mentor junior team members

• Impact the engineering function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in building automated solutions to cover UI frontend, middle tier, and backend interfaces and services.

• Primary Skills / Experience : Java + Spring Boot, Python, Selenium, Cucumber, DB/SQL, Git, CI/CD, BDD/TDD, Test Data Management, Microservices, Containerization, Cloud, Linux, Observability platforms.

• Provides automation expertise, training and coaching to team members.

• Determines range and depth of activities required for developing or customizing complex test automation frameworks, researching and onboarding automation tools for IT.

• Deliver a robust automation framework built upon established and proven open source or commercial tools to support Agile/Scrum development, DevOps and CI/CD.

• Keep current with advances in automation methodologies and tools.

• Research, evaluation, and deployment of new test tools.

• Trains teams to implement expanded automation coverage by adding automated environment validation, smoke and functional test scripts to CI/CD pipeline.

• Ability to assess functional and technical gaps in designs.

• Support continuous improvement processes, analyzing problems and recommending actions for effective resolution.

• Ability to adapt to a fast paced, continually changing business and work environment while managing multiple priorities.

• The candidate must be able to work with minimal supervision, be self-sufficient, define own objectives, and promote best practices within the organization.

• The candidate must be able to provide technical solutions to a diverse range of difficult problems.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred