Automation Engineer, Manager

About the role

The QA team at Charles River Development (CRD), a State Street company, delivers high-quality, scalable solutions across CRD and CRPM platforms. As an Automation Engineer (Officer level), you will be a hands-on individual contributor owning test design, automation development, and end-to-end quality validation across releases. You will collaborate within Agile Scrum teams to build and scale automated frameworks, integrate CI/CD pipelines, and perform front-end and API automation. This role is based in Bangalore, India.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with Scrum Master, Product Owner, Architects, BAs, and Developers to ensure end-to-end quality ownership within Agile Scrum teams
• Design, develop, and scale automated test frameworks and regression suites to validate business requirements across products and services
• Demonstrate strong programming expertise in Java / C# / JavaScript / Python to build maintainable automation solutions
• Build and integrate CI/CD pipelines to execute automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests
• Perform hands-on front-end automation testing using Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent industry-standard tools
• Execute and maintain manual and automated test suites covering functional, integration, regression, and performance testing
• Interpret automation results, log defects, and proactively collaborate with developers to drive timely issue resolution
• Test REST APIs, microservices, Azure Functions, and serverless workflows, performing initial cloud-environment troubleshooting

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years of experience in software QA with strong emphasis on test automation
• Proven experience as a hands-on individual contributor (not a people-management role)
• Strong expertise in UI and API automation (e.g., Selenium, Rest Assured, or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of test frameworks (e.g., TestNG, Cucumber, BDD-style frameworks)
• Proficiency in Java
• Strong manual testing fundamentals and test design methodologies
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery models
• Ability to write SQL queries for validation and perform strong defect analysis

Nice to have

• Exposure to performance testing concepts and tools
• Experience testing complex enterprise platforms (financial systems preferred)
• Experience with Jira and test management practices

Skills

Benefits

• Generous medical care, insurance and savings plans
• Flexible Work Program to help match your needs
• Development programs and educational support
• Paid volunteer days
• Matching gift programs and access to employee networks