Lead Test Engineer

About the role

Rakbank is looking for an experienced Assistant Manager - QA to lead testing initiatives and act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Banking Systems. This role is responsible for driving quality assurance best practices, test automation, and end‑to‑end testing across digital banking solutions while managing onshore and offshore QA teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end testing activities across SIT, UAT, performance testing, and production releases.
• Design and implement test strategies, frameworks, and automation solutions.
• Act as SME for core banking, digital banking, CRM, IVR, ATM, cards, and banking systems integration.
• Collaborate with business, technology, vendors, and external partners to ensure quality delivery.
• Manage defect triage, QA governance, risk mitigation, and release readiness.
• Drive continuous improvement through QA metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
• Lead and mentor QA teams while coordinating with third‑party vendors and service providers.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of QA/testing experience, with at least 3 years in a lead or SME role supporting banking systems.
• Strong experience in functional, integration, regression and automation testing across banking systems and digital channels.
• Proven leadership managing distributed/onshore‑offshore QA teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and analytical skills.

Required skills

• Selenium
• UFT
• JMeter
• TestNG
• Postman