Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

This role, as part of the WI QE group, will be critical in supporting the 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.

You will focus on testing and building test automation solution for all layers of software application (including end-to-end automation) in a simulated environment. You will be working directly with other Peer Quality Engineers, software developers, architects and business stakeholders to translate vision and designs into sustainable business solutions. You will be responsible for the development and maintenance of test automation solution for complex software applications, configurations and utilities ensuring they are built with quality and adhering to the engineering practices, performance and responsive to the device accessing the application.

The primary objective of the WI QE team is to enable the WI business in the US, while working with IT business partners in the US 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 WI business accomplish its long-term objectives. This role focuses on the automated testing of all layers of software application and building an end-to-end test automation suite for a simulated environment.

This role demands a high level of collaboration across squads within SPS domain, including architects and systems analysts and developers to define effective test strategies for executing and automating diverse user scenarios, thereby contributing to the delivery of an exceptional customer experience.

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 to the day-to-day planning, design, execution, and reporting of automation metrics and KPIs.
• Adhere to software engineering principles in development of automation software and develop software to test software and keeping zero tech debt with sonar quality gate.
• 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.

Responsibilities in this role:

• Translating business and systems requirements into test strategy, test scenarios and test plans.
• Designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining optimized automated test scripts.
• Rotational QE - On-call Support in Prod and Preprod infrastructure.
• Adhering to Engineering Practices in development of automation framework.
• Understand and apply BDD design concepts to test software solutions.
• Delivering accurate and maintainable code for automation and software utilities.
• Measure and report key QE metrics.
• Accessibility Testing on web browser pages.
• Contribute towards Quality Engineering chapter initiatives.
• Collaborate with other technical resources to suggest improvements for processes, best practices, and standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve maintainability of automation platform.

The skills that are key to this role:

Business/Domain:

• Deep/Good understanding of Stock Plan Services.
• Good understanding of Brokerage Business.
• Good understanding of Mainframe & Global Recordkeeping system.

Behavioral:

• You should have good written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• 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.
• Adhere to all Fidelity policies.

Technical skills:

• 6 - 8 years of experience predominantly in software test/Quality Engineering.
• Hands on experience in different types of testing in a simulation environment.
• Hands-on Software Development in Test experience, which includes any of the following: 5+ years of using programming languages like Java / Typescript.
• Good understanding of BDD, CI-CD and DevOps concepts is mandatory.
• Expertise in the following is required: Mainframe Systems testing (CICS Screen, VSAM Files, DB2) with Automation, ETL & Data Replication Validation with Automation, Validation of RESTful web services with Automation, Validation of Event Based Architecture using automation, Hands-on experience in Playwright & Karate, Jenkins / Git Hub Actions (CI/CD Pipelines).
• Experience in the following is a strong plus: Experience in Simulation Environment testing, Mobile Device Validation, Cloud certification in (AWS/Azure), Service Virtualization (Wire-Mock, Firefly).

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: Chennai

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