Quality Automation Specialist

NatWest Group Test / Automation EngineerChennai (India)Gurugram (India)Bengaluru (India)Onsite/HybridCOBOLDB2MainframeCICS

Job Description Join us as a Quality Automation Specialist

• In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
• We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
• You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities
• We're offering this role at associate level

What You'll Do Joining us in a highly collaborative role, you’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market. It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.

Additionally, You’ll Be

• Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
• Actioning and evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
• Collaborating to refine the scope of manual and automated testing required, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts
• Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
• Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements

The Skills You'll Need We’re looking for someone with experience of automated testing, particularly from an Agile development or CI/CD environment. You’ll be an innovative thinker who can identify opportunities and design solutions, coupled with the ability to develop complex automation code. You’ll have a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature.

We’ll Also Look For You To Have

• At least four to eight years of experience in IBM Mainframe technologies including COBOL, CICS, DB2, and experience with version control tools
• Proven experience in executing tests on IBM mainframe applications with solid understanding of test processes
• Working knowledge of test automation tools and frameworks relevant to mainframe environments
• Experience in end-to-end and automation testing using the latest tools as recommended by the enterprise tooling framework
• A background of designing, developing and implementing automation frameworks in new environments
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to management level colleagues
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills

Hours : 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 19/05/2026 NatWest Group This job listing is curated by Backbone Jobs Job details Location(s) Chennai (India), Gurugram (India), Bengaluru (India) Employment full time Technologies COBOL, DB2, Mainframe, CICS Posted on 1 month ago Explore more jobs Browse more opportunities from trusted companies, filter by technology, location, and seniority, and find the next role that fits you best. Browse all jobs

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