Lead – Test Engineer

We are M&G Global Services Private Limited (formerly known as 10FA India Private Limited, and prior to that Prudential Global Services Private Limited). We are a fully owned subsidiary of the M&G group of companies, operating as a Global Capability Centre providing a range of value adding services to the Group since 2003.

Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. 

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

M&G Global Services has rapidly transformed itself into a powerhouse of capability that is playing an important role in M&G's ambition to be the best loved and most successful savings and investments company in the world.

Our diversified service offerings extending from Digital Services (Digital Engineering, AI, Advanced Analytics, RPA, and BI & Insights), Business Transformation, Management Consulting & Strategy, Finance, Actuarial, Quants, Research, Information Technology, Customer Service, Risk & Compliance and Audit provide our people with exciting career growth opportunities. Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

Job Description

Job Title

Lead Test Engineer – Investments and Ops

Grade

2B

Level

Lead Engineer

Job Function

Digital Transformation

Job Sub Function

Asset Management Tech & Change - AI & Analytics

Reports to

Vice President – AI and Analytics

Location

Pune

Business Area

M&G Global Services

Overall Job Purpose

As part of this exciting transformation role, you will be a part of the Investments Engineering – QA practice and shall be responsible for implementing the Automation roadmap across various Investments Platform squads

Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Gain functional understanding of applications within the Investments platform that are part of the test automation scope
• Implement Test Automation Roadmap across Investments Platform squads
• Update Automation Roadmap to include/remove applications based on the automation feasibility
• Understands continuous integration and continuous delivery; capable of building robust, automated testing frameworks through all environments.
• Able to work and collaborate within a Scrum Squad /Agile Teams consisting of developers, BAs Product Owner to ensure the quality of software products.
• Provide regular progress updates (RAG) to the stake holders including highlighting of any risks/issues/challenges and possible mitigation actions
• Communicate the Benefits and Savings achieved through Test Automation in terms of efforts and costs to all stake holders

Key Stakeholder Management

Internal
M&G Investments

External
NA

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Educational Qualification

Knowledge & Skills:

• Confidence & excellent communication: - Able to converse and interact with Product owners Delivery leads and Portfolio leads on Test activities
• Able to mentor QA engineers in automation activities and assist in resolving automation related issues
• Front End Automation with Selenium-C#. NET/.NET Core /Playwright using Spec flow framework
• API Automation for REST APIs with Postman & Rest Assured
• Automated Database/Back-end Test Automation
• Integration and running of Automated Test suite within the Azure DevOps pipeline to achieve continuous delivery
• Experience of Test & Defect Management tools like Jira/Zephyr/HP-ALM/ADO
• Proficient in SQL
• Ability to use opensource tools and off shelf tools and open to experiment new tools
• Proficient in TDD and BDD processes
• Understanding of Frontend and Backend systems and can-do basic debugging and configuration
• Excellent analytical abilities and abilities to debug and walkthrough issues

Good to Have:

• Performance testing experience, Role-Based Security Testing
• Front-End Automation - Karate UI, UI Path, Cypress, Browserstack
• Languages - Python, Java, JavaScript, ,
• BDD Frameworks – Cucumber, Karate
• Test Runners – Junit, Nunit, TestNG
• ETL
• API automation using Swagger, Karate API, Playwright.

Experience:

10+ Yrs. of Experience in Test Automation which includes Automation Framework design and implementation, building test automation suites and integrating the same with DevOps pipeline

Educational Qualification:

• Graduate in any discipline.

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G Global Services, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.