Lead - Software Engineering

Job Title – Lead - Software Engineering

This role, as part of the WI QE group, will be critical in supporting development of our capabilities relative to automation including: supporting execution of our automation road map, working with team members to develop infrastructure and tools required across multiple technology stacks, working within guidelines and offering suggestions relative to governance procedures and overall development standards.
 

The Purpose of This Role

The primary objective of the WI QE team is to enable the WI business, while working with IT business partners in a well-integrated way. Over the past 10 years the team has developed technical expertise on various functions within each business line of Workplace investments, across strategic new products and within data engineering. We strive to achieve technical excellence in each of these functions and help the Workplace Investments business accomplish its long-term objectives. This role focuses on the development of Automation Infrastructure in support of business needs and the technology evolution to a DevOps culture.
 

The Value You Deliver

• Translate business and systems requirements into technical requirements for automation and software tools & framework.

• Design, develop, document, and maintain automated tests and software tools.

• Actively contributing in the day-to-day planning, design, execution, and reporting of automation metrics and KPI's

• Adhere to software engineering principles in development of automation software and also develop software to test software

• Understand and apply test driven/behavior driven design concepts to test and debug automated solutions and software utilities developed by self and others.

• Do white box testing where required

• Deliver accurate and maintainable code for automated test suite and software utilities.

• Collaborate with other technical resources to:

  • Suggest improvements for processes, best practices, and standards.

  • Identify opportunities to improve maintainability of automation platform.

The Expertise We're Looking For

Must Have Skills:

Java, Selenium, JUnit, REST Assured API and SQL

Good to Have Skills:

Experience with Cucumber BDD Framework, GitHub, Jenkins, and Jira

Technical / Behavioral Skills that are Key to this role

• You should have a good understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution, and planning

• You should have good analytical skills and high aptitude to learn and adapt to new processes

• Good understanding of Automation Frameworks – Data Driven, Key word Driven, Hybrid

• You should be able to effectively debug and test own automation code, software code

• You should have good Written and verbal communication and presentation skills

• You should possess Organizational skills including time, project and process management

• Your ability to work effectively with both business customers and project team members will be a strong factor that will be considered

• Good interpersonal, relationship management and facilitation skills

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

The primary objective of the Workplace Solutions team is to enable the WI business in the US, while working with IT business partners in the US in a well-integrated way. WI comprises five business lines - Defined Contributions, Defined Benefits, Stock Plan Services and Health Care Group and Health Savings Account. Over the past 10 years the WS team has developed technical expertise on various functions within each business line of Workplace investments, across strategic new products and within data engineering.

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services. Headquartered in Boston, US, Fidelity's goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. Privately held for nearly 70 years, Fidelity employs 45,000 associates who are focused on the long-term success of our customers. FMR (Fidelity Management & Research) India is the Global Inhouse Center of Fidelity Investments. Headquartered at Bangalore, where operations commenced in 2003, FMR India has another fully-functional unit at Chennai. To know more visit : FMR India

Location : TRIL, Chennai

Shift timings: 11:00 am - 8:00pm