Principal Software Engineer

Job Title Principal Software Engineer

The Purpose of This Role

This role, as part of the WI QA group, will be critical in supporting development of our capabilities relative to automation including: supporting execution of our Web Services 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.

This role is to support Data Engineering & Exchange group within Workplace Solutions Business Unit, focused on building and maintaining the Enterprise Data environments like Operational Data Store, Warehouse and Data Lake which are essential for business reporting and analytics capability. Our technology teams interact regularly with Business Analysts, Architects, Data Modelers, Scrum Master and other engineers from various teams across the globe to deliver the solutions which will delight our customers.

The Value You Deliver

This is both a hands on role where you need to engage in developing test automation solutions in latest technologies, lead the automation code reviews and coding standards for newer projects as well as lead a team comprising of SDETs across all the WI QA portfolios. You will work closely with Architects , Dev and Business stakeholders  forming future QA blue prints of all our applications and also mentoring the QA teams in adapting latest technologies .

• Designing automation framework best suited for a set of applications
• Translating business and systems requirements into technical requirements for automation
• Designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining automated tests
• Adhering to software engineering principals in development of automation
• Understanding and applying test driven design concepts to test and debug automated solutions and software utilities developed by self and others.
• Delivering accurate and maintainable code for automation and software utilities.

• Collaborating with other technical resources to:

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

• Design and develop automation and software tools.
• Understand requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve maintainability of automation platform.

The Skills that are Key to this role

Technical / Behavioral

• You  will apply proven leadership , analytical, problem-solving and quality assurance/testing skills to enhance and validate the quality of the software solutions
• You will be effectively communicating with stakeholders and providing up to date status of delivery
• Actively participate in product release cycle, daily stand up as well as helping team with tactical activities like code review, design optimization etc.
• Work closely with IT Product/Application teams in technology selection, evaluation, recommendation and configuration
• Build and maintain effective relationships with product managers, WS architects and technical leads for individual products
• Evaluate and recommend technology and automation frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability, and time to market
• Regularly provides guidance, training and mentoring to enable other team members to meet/exceed expectations
• You will guide the team to build end to end & regression test strategy
• You will bring in cloud testing expertise
• You will bring in hands-on experience of working on Agile projects
• You will spearhead the automation coverage for a given system including building a CI-CD pipeline to help achieve a frictionless digital experience
• Working in a team to deliver business value by coordinating with Developers, Architects, Analysts and Product owners
• Critical thinking and the ability to work in an agile environment

The Skills that are Good To Have for this role

• Written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Organizational skills including time, project and process management
• Influencing capabilities
• Ability to work effectively with both business customers and project team members
• Good  interpersonal, relationship management and facilitation skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Solid analytical, negotiation & building consensus abilities
• Mainframe expertise is added advantage
• Experience on ICEDQ tool

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.

The Expertise Were Looking For

• 10+ years of Quality Engineering experience
• Bachelors/masters degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or other related field.
• Good knowledge in API testing and Batch process
• Very strong in databases testing and SQL skills and hands-on experience is building complex SQL queries
• Good programming skills on Java/Python
• Data analysis, identifying data patterns, data flows and trends.
• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks for API (Rest Assured/Karate), Mainframe, Batch Jobs, Informatica
• Collaborate with data engineers and data analyst to understand data requirement and ensure quality throughout the data life cycle.
• Define and execute test plans
• Identify and prioritize critical data quality issues in the system.
• Document and communicate the identified defects to relevant stakeholders.
• Utilize various tools and technologies to monitor , measure and report on both functionality and non-functionality aspects of data pipelines.
• Worked in Agile methodologies.
• Good exposure to BDD tools such as behave/ cucumber.
• Hands on experience in Github, JIRA, Xray, Jenkins

Location: Bangalore

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