Role: Automation Testing Manager
Location: Charlotte, NC
Fulltime - Fulltime
Job Description
Must-Have Technical / Functional Skills
Testing Expertise
- Manual: Functional, Regression, Integration, UAT, System, Sanity, Cross-Browser
- Automation: Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), Cypress
- API Testing: Postman, REST Assured, SOAP UI, Ready API
- Performance Testing: JMeter
Domain-Specific Testing
- ACH and Card Transaction Validations
- Kafka Messaging Validation
- ETL/Data Testing via SQL
- Programming & Tools
- Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, SQL
- Spring Boot, RESTful Services, Microservices, Hibernate, AngularJS, jQuery
- Oracle 12c, SQL Server
- Jenkins, DevOps, Git, Bitbucket, Maven, Gradle
- Test Management: JIRA, HP ALM, QMetry, Confluence
- Reporting: Allure, TestNG Reports
Roles & Responsibilities
- Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end testing activities across multiple applications, platforms, and
- dependent systems.
- Own the overall test strategy, test planning, execution, defect management, and test closure activities.
- Provide hands-on leadership and expertise in enterprise testing and delivery activities.
- Coordinate SIT, E2E, regression, integration, and UAT testing across development, QA, business, and external
- teams.
- Drive Change Management activities, including change planning, impact assessment, implementation
- coordination, and production readiness.
- Manage dependencies across upstream and downstream applications to ensure complete E2E coverage.
- Define test scope, scenarios, entry/exit criteria, schedules, and quality gates.
- Track testing progress, defects, risks, dependencies, and blockers and provide regular status updates to
- stakeholders.
- Facilitate defect triage meetings and work with development teams to drive defects through resolution and
- retesting.
- Coordinate with business, application, infrastructure, release, and production-support teams for successful
- implementation.
- Support release planning, change implementation, cutover, and post-production validation.
- Identify delivery and quality risks early and drive appropriate mitigation plans.
- Ensure testing complies with organizational quality, governance, audit, and change-control requirements.
- Provide leadership to QA/testing teams and ensure timely completion of testing milestones.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience as a Delivery Test Lead / Test Manager / QA Lead.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise testing.
- Strong End-to-End Testing experience involving multiple integrated applications.
- Good experience in Change Management and Release Management pro cesses.
- Strong knowledge of SIT, UAT, regression, integration, functional, and production validation testing.
- Experience in test planning, estimation, execution tracking, defect management, and reporting.
- Experience managing cross-application dependencies, risks, issues, and production readiness.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to coordinate with geographically distributed technology and business teams.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum and enterprise delivery environments.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, coordination, and leadership skills.
Preferred Skills
- BFSI/Banking domain experience.
- Experience handling large-scale, business-critical technology changes.
- Knowledge of tools such as Jira, Confluence, ALM/Quality Center, or equivalent test-management tools.
- Experience coordinating production releases, cutover activities, and post-implementation validation.
