Automation Test Lead PEGA

Job Description:

• Lead the automation testing strategy and implementation for enterprise Pega applications.

• Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks for UI API and end-to-end testing.

• Identify suitable candidates for automation and maximise regression coverage.

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and establish automated quality gates.

• Lead and develop the automation and quality engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define automation strategy roadmap tooling selection and ROI model.

• Design and maintain reusable automation frameworks - hybrid data-driven keyword-driven BDD/Cucumber Page Object Model.

• Develop automated UI/API test scripts handling Pegas dynamic DOM in Constellation and traditional UI.

• Lead automation of Pega-specific layers - Pega Scenario Testing Pega Automated Unit Testing (AUT) and rule-level coverage.

• Automate and optimise regression test suites; drive regression cycle time down and coverage up.

• Integrate automation with CI/CD - Deployment Manager Jenkins GitLab CI Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

• Own test data management strategy synthetic data generation masking and environment refresh coordination.

• Manage test data and environments.

• Lead performance and load test strategy (JMeter LoadRunner Gatling) and interpret Pega PAL DB Trace and PDC output.

• Analyse automation results and investigate automation failures and flakiness.

• Lead defect triage root-cause analysis and prevention actions.

• Track and report automation coverage pass rate execution time and quality metrics.

• Establish testing standards code review practice and version control discipline for test assets.

• Mentor automation engineers and allocate work across the team.

• Collaborate with Pega developers and architects on testability and shift-left practice.

• Provide quality sign-off and go/no-go recommendations at release gates.

• Evaluate emerging tooling including AI-assisted test generation and self-healing automation.

Technical Qualification: Minimum knowledge skills abilities needed:

• Strong automation-testing experience including framework design from scratch.

• Experience testing Pega applications.

• Experience with Pega Scenario Testing and Pega Automated Unit Testing (AUT).

• Strong API testing experience.

• UI automation experience.

• Knowledge of Selenium/Playwright/Cypress or equivalent.

• Experience with REST API automation (RestAssured Karate Postman/Newman SoapUI).

• Programming experience in Java Python JavaScript or equivalent.

• CI/CD experience and pipeline ownership.

• SQL/database testing knowledge.

• Git and version control discipline for test assets.

• Agile/Scrum experience.

• Team leadership and mentoring experience.

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology Engineering or a related technical discipline.

• Masters degree ( / MCA) is an advantage.

Preferred Qualification:

• 7 years testing experience.

• 5 years automation experience.

• 3 years Pega testing experience.

• 2 years leading QA/automation teams.

• ISTQB Foundation certification.

• ISTQB Advanced Test Automation Engineer or Test Manager certification.

• Certified Pega System Architect (CPSA / CSA) is strongly recommended.

• Experience with Pega Constellation testing.

• Experience integrating automation into DevOps pipelines.

• DevOps or cloud certification (Docker Kubernetes/CKAD Azure DevOps Engineer AWS/Azure Associate).

• Performance testing experience is advantageous.

SYNECHRONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds race ethnicities religion age marital status gender sexual orientations or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements mentoring internal mobility learning and development programs and more.

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