Automation Lead

Julius Baer is hiring an Automation Lead in Singapore, Singapore. Level rates it ; you can apply on Julius Baer.

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At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

The candidate will lead Test Automation design, development and innovation initiatives for Core Banking and Satellite applications, managing a team of test automation, SDETs and Load and performance engineers. The candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing Test Automation frameworks and solutions using open source and conventional tools on on-prem and cloud platforms. Candidate should have very good understanding on Software Engineering, CICD, cloud and development tool stack.

YOUR CHALLENGE

Functional / Technical

Design test automation framework and solutions for cloud and on-prem platforms, covering UI, api automation, service virtualization, CICD and test tool (JIRA, XRAY) integration
Lead and manage test automation teams to ensure automation initiatives and delivery are aligned with business and technical goals
Work with project stakeholders in the core banking and satellite applications domains to gather automation and nonfunctional testing requirements and define goals and solutions for the automation teams
Drive the automation teams to pursue the latest tech stacks and industry standard practices
Maintain automation and performance test repositories, ensuring seamless test execution and reporting integrated with the deployment pipelines
Promote a culture and desire for innovation and consistent improvements in the test automation and performance testing areas
Review and track artefacts produced by automation teams
Define test strategy, automation approach, environment and test data management plans across applications, for big and small projects
Work collaboratively with various project, business and operations teams to achieve goals
Status reporting and ability to proactively raise issues, risks and recommend optimal solutions

Client / Stakeholder Management (internal & external)

Stake holder management – working closely with senior stakeholders within IT and Business to drive test automation deliveries, best practices, innovation and automation
Work with IT risk to actively drive the risk culture within and across teams
Ensure awareness, involvement and support from the key stakeholders and participants by building strong project teams and maintaining robust communication on the project status throughout its life cycle

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations
Take responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely and drive all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards

RANK APPLICABLE TO THE POSITION

Director

YOUR PROFILE

SKILLS REQUIREMENTS OF THE POSITION

Professional and Technical

Professional

Minimum 12-15+ years of experience in driving Test Automation strategies and technical solutions
Private Banking experience including in Temenos T24 Core banking preferred
Experience and Ability to provide technical solutions and adapt to latest tech stacks and innovations
Expertise in working on Agile methodologies such as Scrum / Kanban / SAFE
Experience in Automation and driving Automation strategy (Selenium, Playwright, STEP & other industry standard tools)

Technical

Must Have:

Experience with Test Automation frameworks and tool stack like Cucumber, API Test Automation, Selenium, Playwright
Expertise in Java
Good understanding of cloud technologies (Azure preferred)
Proficient with at least one CI CD tool stack (Gitlab preferred)
Proficient with Kubernetes and Docker technologies
Good understanding of Linux
Good understanding on software engineering best practices, clean code policies, branching strategies, release processes, versioning etc
Good understanding of streaming platforms like Confluent Kafka/ IBM MQ etc
Experience in Load and Performance testing with JMeter, K6, Playwright
Experience in Observability and monitoring tools like Grafana, Dyna trace, Splunk
Exposure on any Core banking solutions (T24 preferred)

Personal and Social

Excellent communication & Stakeholder management skills
Good work ethics
Good problem-solving abilities
Good team player
Good service attitude
Systematic and meticulous
Ability to lead teams effectively across locations

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How we rate this

Automation Lead at Julius Baer rates 27 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
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