QA Automation Testing Manager

Job Title: QA Automation Testing Manager
Location:
Stamford, CT
Duration:
Fulltime

Skills: Automation Testing | SDET


Roles and Responsibilities:
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

We re seeking a QA Automation Testing Manager (SDET) with 10+ years leading multiteam QA programs, to drive engineering-quality practices across complex banking platforms and integrations. You will architect automation frameworks, embed quality into CI/CD, and lead a team of SDETs/QA engineers to deliver reliable, compliant releases erience in BFSI systems (core banking, payments, digital channels) and hands-on coding for test automation is essential.

Job description

• Automation Architecture & Delivery
• Design, implement, and scale UI/API/DB automation frameworks (Selenium java/UFT, Rest Assured/Postman, Cucumber/BDD, TestNG/JUnit).
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD (Azure Dev Ops/Jenkins/Git Lab) with quality gates, parallelization, test impact analysis, and artifact publishing.
• Establish coding standards for test harnesses, mocks, data builders, and service virtualization; enforce code reviews and static analysis for test code.

Domain Focused Testing (Banking)

• Translate banking use cases (core deposits/loans, ACH/wires, card/payments, digital banking) into robust automated scenarios and data validations.
• Partner with product owners and vendor teams (e.g., Client, internal platforms) to triage defects, validate patches/hotfixes, and maintain regression beds.

Program Leadership & Governance

• Lead a squad of SDETs/QA engineers capacity planning, mentoring, and upskilling on advanced automation topics.
• Orchestrate defect triage, root cause analysis, and risk based test planning; own release readiness (go/no go) and rollback validation.
• Drive shift left practices (contract testing, API first, early data checks) and shift right observability (synthetic monitoring, production validation dashboards).
• Compliance & Security
• Ensure test evidence meets BFSI regulatory/audit needs (SOX); automate traceability from user stories to test results and logs.

Required Qualifications

• 10 12+ years in software testing/quality engineering, with 5+ years leading SDET/automation teams.
• Strong hands on coding in Java/C# (or equivalent) for test automation (frameworks, utilities, custom drivers).
• Proven delivery of CI/CD integrated automation at scale; expert in test design for microservices, REST APIs, and event driven systems.
• BFSI domain experience core banking or payments and vendor/platform collaboration (e.g., Client) for patch/regression cycles.
• Solid grasp of SQL and data validation; familiarity with logs/metrics (Splunk/Sumo/Grafana) for test diagnostics.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with OSAT style regression accelerators or similar enterprise frameworks; comfortable with shift left/shift right test strategies.
• Performance testing (JMeter/Load Runner)
• ISTQB (Advanced), Agile/SAFe, or cloud certifications (Azure/AWS).

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Tools & Stack (Illustrative)
• Automation:
  Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Rest Assured, Postman, Cucumber/BDD, Appium (mobile)
• CI/CD & SCM:
  Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, Git Lab, Git Hub Actions;
  Git
• Test Management :
  Azure Test Plans, ALM/Octane, Zephyr/Xray
• Data/DB: SQL Server, Oracle, Postgre
  
  SQL; TDM/masking tools
• Observability:
  Splunk/Sumo, Grafana/Prometheus; quality dashboards

Education
Bachelor s in computer science/engineering or related field (advanced degree a plus).

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.