Associate Vice President

Job Title:

Associate Vice President Work Type:

Permanent Location:

Bengaluru, India

It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more meaningful work, more global opportunities and more innovation beyond boundaries .

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

NAB has established NAB Innovation Centre India as a centre for operations and technology excellence to support NAB deliver faster, better, and more personalized experience to customers and colleagues.

At NAB India, we’re ramping-up and growing at a very fast pace. Our passionate leaders recruit and develop high performing people, empowering them to deliver exceptional outcomes to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers and our communities.

Purpose

Provide guidance to the Quality Engineering (“QE”) team

Lead the effort of ensuring that all products owned by the delivery squad meets the business requirements

Ensures Product/ Software quality

Capabilities, Experience & Qualification Requirements

Essential Experience & capabilities / skills

10-12 years of experience in SDET, Java automation and strong Software Automation Testing mindset.

Strong hands-on experience designing and building Java automation frameworks.

Strong coding in JAVA. Experience with any node-based test automation like playwright or Selenium with Java.

Deep hands-on expertise in Java automation.

Exposure to API based framework using REST assured.

Experience automating backend and legacy systems, including service interfaces and batch processes.

Strong SQL skills for backend and data validation.

Experience working within Agile and DevOps delivery models.

Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms is advantageous.

Key Accountabilities

Core responsibilities

An Engineer is confined to a particular delivery squad and follows the scrum model and delivery governance as part of the squad

Drive an automation-led approach to quality across backend and legacy systems.

Design, develop, and maintain Java automation frameworks for backend interfaces, service endpoints, and batch processing.

Implement Java-based backend automation without reliance on UI layers.

Develop automated test suites covering unit, integration, system, and regression testing.

Perform automated backend and data validation, including reconciliation, integrity, schema, and business rule checks.

Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines and enforce functional quality gates.

Participate in code reviews focusing on testability, automation coverage, and quality risks.

Support release activities, defect triage, and root-cause analysis.

Ensure adherence to SDLC, engineering, security, and compliance standards.

Promote shared ownership of automation and quality across engineering teams.

Responsible for unblocking any quality related issues which is blocking the Quality Engineers delivery by escalating at the right forum (People or groups)

Responsible for ensuring the quality standards and process are followed by the respective Engineers across delivery squads

Participate in software development process including fixing small and simple production code, review code written by other developers, if required.

Responsible and accountable for all deliveries across delivery squads of high quality

Responsible for the quality assessments of the deliverables/ user stories in the delivery squad

Have a SDET(Software development Engineer test) mindset of conducting RCA for any defects

Accountable for the automation of all the user stories across delivery squad i.e. ensures that Engineers are not blocked by any issue and are working on the prioritized automation user stories first

Responsible & accountable for the creation/ updation and review of Test Plans, (TSR) Test Summary Report, RTM and Complex Test Docs by understanding the business and testing requirements of the AUT

Participate in testing effort estimates and actuals to deliver stories / features

Work across the squad to identify opportunities to deliver Quality Engineering

KPIs

Active participation in Review and Governance

Improve Automation test Suite Coverage

Active participation in code reviews, performance optimization, and debugging

Number of defects leaked into production

Demonstrated uplift in automation maturity across supported platforms.

Improvement in defect trends linked to backend automation.

Stakeholder confidence in automation frameworks and practices.

Positive feedback from engineering and delivery leadership.

A diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone:

Our goal is to foster a culture that fills us with pride, rooted in trust and respect. NAB is committed to creating a positive and supportive environment where everyone is encouraged to embrace their true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

More focus on you:

We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities

Join NAB India:

This is your chance to join NAB India and along with your experience and expertise to help shape an innovation driven organisation that focuses on making a positive impact in the lives of its customers, colleagues and communities

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