Lead Test Engineer - Client & Distribution

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 plc group of companies, operating as a Global Capability Centre providing a range of value adding services to the Group since 2003. At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns.

M&G Global Services has rapidly transformed itself into a powerhouse of capability that is playing an important role in M&G plc’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.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Able to work and collaborate within a Scrum Squad /Agile Teams consisting of developers, BAs Product Owner to ensure the quality of software products.
• Gain solid understanding of the existing test automation framework to perform enhancements and develop new frameworks
• Understands continuous integration and continuous delivery. Capable of maintaining existing CI/CD pipelines and setting up new CI/CD pipelines as and when needed
• Execute FAT, Integration and E2E test cases, analyse results, and report defects using Jira.
• Support business users during Business Acceptance Testing
• Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• 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
• Continuously improve testing processes and methodologies to enhance product quality and team efficiency.

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
• FE Automation with Selenium-Java./Playwright using BDD Cucumber framework
• Experience of using J-Meter for Performance Testing
• 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 creating functional and automation test approaches
• 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

Desirable:

• Languages - Python, C#
• BDD Frameworks – Specflow
• Test Runners – Junit, Nunit, TestNG
• API Automation for REST APIs with Postman & Rest Assured
• Experience on release management
• Experience of using any AI tools like Microsoft Co-pilot or Chat-GPT for various test activities

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.