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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software engineering

In this role, you will:

• A Lead Automation engineer with deep hands-on experience of Software Automation testing and Performance testing tools, practices, processes
• Need deep understanding of Desktop, Web, Data warehouse application, API Development, Design Patterns, SDLC, IAC tools, testing and site reliability engineering and related ways to design and develop automation framework
• Define and implement best practices for software automation testing, performance testing, framework, and patterns, including testing methodologies.
• Be a generalist with the breadth and depth of experience in CICD best practices and has core experience in testing (ie. TDD/BDD/Automated testing/Contract testing/API testing/Desktop/web apps, DW test automation)
• Able to see a problem or an opportunity with the ability to engineer a solution, be respected for what they deliver not just what they say, should think about the business impact of their work and has a holistic view to problem- solving
• Proven industry experience of running an Engineering team with focus on optimization of processes, introduction of new technologies, solving challenges, building strategy, business planning, governance and Stakeholder Management.
• Apply thinking to many problems across multiple technical domains and suggest way to solve the problems
• Contributes to architectural discussions by asking the right questions to ensure a solution matches the business needs
• Identify opportunities for system optimization, performance tuning, and scalability enhancements. Implement solutions to improve system efficiency and reliability.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Build Performance assurance procedures with the latest feasible tools and techniques, establish Performance test automation process to improve testing productivity.
• Responsible for end-to-end Software testing, performance testing and engineering life cycle - technical scoping, performance scripting, testing, and tuning.
• Analyse the test assessment results, provide recommendations to improve performance or save infrastructure costs.
• Represent at Scrum meetings and all other key project meetings and provide a single point of accountability and escalation for Performance testing within the scrum teams.
• Advise on needed infrastructure and Performance Engineering and testing guidelines & be responsible for performance risk assessment of various application features.
• Work with cross-functional team, opportunity to work with software product, development, and support teams, capable of handling tasks to accelerate the testing delivery and to improve the quality for Applications at HSBC.
• Able to provide support in product/application design from performance point of view.
• Able to communicate plans, status, and results as per target audience.
• Willing to adapt, learn innovative technologies/trades and be flexible to work on projects as demanded by business
• Define and implement best practices for software automation testing, including testing standards, test reviews, coverage, and testing methodologies, tractability between requirements and test cases.
• Prepare, develop and maintain test automation framework that can be used for software testing, performance testing., write automation test scripts, conduct reviews.
• Develop and execute regression, smoke, integration tests timely.

To be successful in this role, you must meet the following requirements:

• Experience in software testing approaches on automation testing using Tosca, Selenium, cucumber BDD framework 
• Experienced on writing test plans, test strategy, test data management includes test artifacts management for both automation and manual testing.
• Experience on setting up CI/CD pipeline and work experience on GitHub, Jenkins along with integration to cucumber and Jira.
• Experience in agile methodology and proven experience in working on agile projects.
• Experience in analysis of bug tracking, prioritizing and bug reporting with bug tracking tools.
• Experience in SQL, Unix, Control-M, ETL, Data Testing, API testing, API Automation using Rest Assured.
• Familiar with following performance testing tools.
• Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise (VuGen, Analysis, LRE OneLG), Protocols: HTTP/HTMP, CITRIX,JMETER, Postman, Insomnia
• Familiar with following observability tools -AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk, Geneos., Datadog, Grafana
• Knowledge of following will be an added advantage -GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Jira & Confluence.
• Programming and scripting language skills in Java, Shell, Scala, Groovy, Python,WebLogic server administration.
• Familiar with BMC Control M tool. CICD tools – Ansible, AWS RO, G3
• UNIX/Linux/Web monitors & performance analysis tools to diagnose and resolve performance issues.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment, "DevOps" team or a similar multi skilled team in a technically demanding function.
• Experience of working on performance testing and tuning of micro-services/APIs, Desktop applications, Webapps, Cloud Services, ETL Apps, database queries.
• Experience of writing/modifying performance testing scripts, Implementation & usage of automated tools for result analysis
• Experience of working on performance testing and tuning of Data warehouse applications doing batch processing on various stages of ETL and information delivery components

Good to have skills:

• Knowledge on latest technology, tools like Python Scripting, Tricentis Toaca, Dataflow, Hive, DevOpS, REST API, Hadoop, Kafka framework, GCP, AWS, will be an added advantage

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSDI