Lead Software Engineer - .net Automation

Lead Software Engineer

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Software Engineer. The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) group is responsible for Agile, Architecture, Services, Product Development and Cloud, Engineering, and Test Engineering, Site Reliability, as well as training and processes to enable the Wells Fargo Technology organization and the company to achieve this transformation.

In this role, you will:

• Work with Chief Development Experience Office / Quality and Test Engineering organization that enables critical test engineering product development to enable the Technology organization to achieve transformation. The function is positioned to build, engineer and evangelize Test Engineering products for the Technology organization.
• Comfortable working in an Agile software delivery environment.
• Desire to collaborate and work closely cross-functional teams using the product.
• Working closely with multiple technology teams to understand their requirements and deliver solutions which will help Development teams in organization to automate their testing and deliver quality products.
• Strong programming experience in .Net , ReqNRoll
• Strong experience in JavaScript, NodeJS, React.
• Strong experience using NoSQL and SQL databases.
• Experience creating and deploying microservices based applications.
• Experience building, deploying or supporting applications in public or private cloud.
• Designing, creating and maintaining test frameworks.
• Experience using Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, Maven/Gradle.
• Experience using SOAPUI, SOATest, POSTMAN.
• Strong experience with web services (JSON, XML, REST, SOAP, etc.) and Spring Framework.
• Learning, adapting and implementing new concepts, technologies and improvements.
• Design and execute strategic goals and short-term tactical plans for managing and maintaining test engineering platforms, Hybrid frameworks that incorporate multiple test products for 'End to End' testing

• Strong Technical Leadership & Engineering Solution Development- Provide expertise, direction, and assistance to junior engineers and inputs towards strategy & testing processes – Shift Left Philosophy, BDD & TDD
• Strong experience in test product ownership and product roadmaps including research, adoption & migration
• Experience of cloud migration of applications/tools and Azure/GCP certification will be an added advantage
• Evaluation of latest tools and technology and onboarding them to improve productivity.

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Automation Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks using .NET, Selenium, Playwright, Karate and ReqNRoll
• GenAI Integration: Leverage MCP agents and LLMs to generate test scripts, validate UI flows, and automate test lifecycle management
• CI/CD & DevOps: Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Harness, and EPLx
• Containerization: Build and validate Docker images for automation workloads; deploy and orchestrate using Kubernetes
• Cross-Browser & Cross-Platform Testing: Ensure test coverage across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit on Windows, Linux, and macOS
• Performance Testing: Contribute to performance test tranches and integrate tools like LoadRunner or JMeter
• Collaboration: Work closely with developers, product owners, and QA leads to align automation with business goals.
• Working experience in a cloud environment like PCF/ Azure/ GCP with exposure to scaled deployments using Terraform
• Working experience in Docker, Kubernetes and Helm charts
• Experienced and well versed in Agile and Waterfall project management practices, Good exposure to tools like JIRA, Octane and Confluence for test lifecycle management
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, including deep understanding of REST, SOAP, HTTP etc.
• Knowledge of Observability and monitoring logs via Splunk, Elastic search etc
• Kafka based integrations

Desired qualifications:

• Technology Mentoring to meet the overall Efficiency & Effectiveness objectives of the organization – This includes coaching junior engineers and providing technical design and architecture guidance for initiatives
• Plan, Consult, negotiate and manage deliverables of the business & technology requirements
• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills
• Ability to conduct research into emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products as required
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Provide consultation on the use of re-engineering techniques to improve process performance and improvements for greater efficiencies.

• Knowledge on Dockers and Kubernetes are added advantage
• Knowledge on MongoDB is added advantage
• Knowledge on TDD,BDD , Cucumber methodologies
• Knowledge on Test automation tools like selenium ,Playwright, Karate ,Load Runner , Blazemeter an added advantage

Good to have exposure on Test Strategy , Planning , Architecting QA solutions , Java , Javascript based automation and complete knowledge on STLC