Principal Consultant in Slough

About Us: Tech Mahindra offers technology consulting and digital solutions to global enterprises across industries, enabling transformative scale at unparalleled speed. With 150,000+ professionals across 90+ countries helping 1100+ clients, TechM provides a full spectrum of services including consulting, information technology, enterprise applications, business process services, engineering services, network services, customer experience & design services, AI & analytics, and cloud & infrastructure services. It is the first Indian company in the world to have been awarded the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Terra Carta Seal, in recognition of actively leading the charge to create a climate and nature-positive future.

Work Location: Reading, UK

Job Description:

• Skills: Testing Methodology, Automation Framework Development, Selenium, Cypress, JIRA, Xray, Postman, AI enabled Testing Solution (AVO, AccelQ, UiPath), Plutora, Apwide Golive, AWS/Azure/GCP basic fundamentals, Unix shell Scripting, Performance Engineering Methodology, SRE, LoadRunner, J-Meter, Dynatrace, Splunk, Gremlin, Performance Testing process, Telecom Domain, Thought Leadership and Program Management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Develop Test Automation Solutions: Design and develop test automation strategy and solutions that integrate with existing testing tools and frameworks.
• Implement Test Automation: Implement test automation solutions, including scripting, framework development, and tool integration.
• ROI on automation testing: Ensure customers have ROI on testing tools by realizing productivity and efficiency gains in the testing area.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Collaborate with stakeholders, including testing teams, development teams, Scrum Master, and product management.
• Test Environment Planning: Develop and implement test environment strategies and plans to support testing activities.
• Environment Management: Manage & monitor test environment infrastructure, including hardware, software, and network resources.
• Environment Design: Design and configure test environments to meet the needs of testing teams.
• Design Performance Test Strategy and Plans: Develop comprehensive performance test strategies and plans to be implemented across program level.
• Thought Leadership: Keep up to date with market trends and implement new tools and techniques for the program. Participate in NASTA, TESTA awards.
• Ensure Best Practices: Ensure that best practices in performance testing are followed, and conduct root cause analysis of performance issues.

Requirements:

• 15+ years of experience in test automation, with a focus on designing and developing test automation frameworks and solutions.
• Ability and proven experience in advising clients on test automation strategy, setting direction for long term automation plan, bringing in best practices and ROI evaluation.
• Serving as an expert in defining and rolling out standard Automation Frameworks (Functional and Nonfunctional), in line with latest industry trends.
• Advanced / Expert level of knowledge of testing concepts, methodologies including Agile and DevOps and processes.
• Assist the SDET’s and Automation engineers to create automation framework which comply with automation best practices.
• Assist in creation of reusable functions, which improve the robustness, re-usability, and maintainability of the test scripts.
• Provide a practical approach to complex product testing, specifically in the areas of the automation of test cases for the purposes of regression testing.
• Be a creative and proactive thinker and make use of current technologies to provide extensible automation infrastructures.
• Consult and discuss with respective application teams/SMEs to develop automation scripts.
• Identify data needed and be responsible for acquiring test data e.g., coordinate with TDM stream to prepare required test data.
• Review product requirements, functional and design specifications to determine and prepare automated test cases.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, including testing teams, development teams, and product management.
• Strong technical expertise in test automation.
• Experience with test automation tools, such as Selenium, Cypress, AccelQ, AVO, Appium, or Cucumber.
• Having competencies around DevOps, Continuous Testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Experience with DevOps tools, such as Jenkins, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, or C#.
• Mentor team for Technical White paper publishing at international forum.
• Hands-on experience in any of the COTS products in scope - SalesForce, ServiceNow, SAP, Oracle-CRM, NetCracker is mandatory.
• Certifications in test automation, such as Certified Test Automation Engineer (CTAE) or any market leading test automation tool certification like TOSCA, UiPath etc.
• Experience with test environment management tools, such as Plutora, Appwide Golive and hands-on virtualization and cloud-based technologies.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure management, including hardware, software, and network resources.
• Experience with automation tools, such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with scripting languages, such as Python or PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of telecom protocols, standards, and technologies.
• Certifications in test environment management tool like Plutora etc., virtualization, or cloud-based technologies.
• Expert in Dynatrace, instrumenting the binaries, analysing the metrics based on application stack.
• Should have good understanding of Splunk.
• Hands-on experience on Microservices and related technologies which includes Kafka, Couchbase, Cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Docker etc.
• Expert in debugging the memory dumps, reviewing/tweaking the configs, to derive GC dumps.
• Expert in Java/J2EE architectural skills.
• Deep data analytic skills or data scientist.
• Hands-on experience on cutting edge applications of Predictive analytics and Machine learning.
• Hands-on experience on development of QA Dashboard with Angular JS, Springboot and MongoDB.
• Create data by utilizing test data tools to setup and request data.
• Relevant work experience in test data management role, defect management, test data requests handling & data provisioning.
• Experience of setting up complete Big Data on multi-cluster environment along with Predictive Analytics application including performance optimizations on PROD environment.
• Experience with workload modelling and benchmarking prod/pre-prod environments.
• Experience with profiling and tuning application server, web server and DB server (preferably).

How To Apply: It's easy to apply online; you just need a copy of your up-to-date CV and to follow the step-by-step process. Don't worry if you need to make changes - you'll have the opportunity to review and edit your work on the final page, or you can also share your resume directly to the provided email address. We look forward to receiving your application!

Tech Mahindra is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We promote and support a diverse workforce at all levels of the company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or disability. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence, and performance of the essential functions of their positions.