About the Opportunity

Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 20 August 2026

Job Description

                                                                                                 

Title                 (Senior Tech Consultant)

Department     (FIL Platform - Cllient Experience)

Location          (Gurgaon)

Reports To      (Director)

Level                (6)

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our GPS Platform Delivery - Record Keeping team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

About your team

The FIL Platform - Record Keeping is a team of around 200 people whose role is to develop and maintain the systems-of-record we us to administer the pensions and investments of our 1.5m+ workplace and retail customers in UK.  In doing this we critical to the delivery of our core product and value proposition to these clients today and in future.

About your role
FIL Platform - Technology stack and engineering ecosystem needs to evolve at a fast pace to cater to strategic technology drivers and to meet end customer experience demands. There is need for a seasoned technologist leader who can lead / drive this space with dedicated energy, passion and inspiration. The person in the role will be expected to lead system regression and performance engineering team, define appropriate test strategies including various aspects of automation testing for the respective programs/projects, co-own the test plan. The person is expected have strong understanding and experience of agile delivery and testing practices, to drive high levels of automation and efficiencies, drive adoption of toolsets in line with the organizational direction and connect to the wider delivery and testing community within the organization to share best practices. The person is expected to have a high degree of connect with the external environment to sense market trends on related technologies and practices and help bring innovation and provide thought leadership to the overall department and the wider organization. The key outcomes shall be (but not limited to) to create a culture of automation keeping DevOps principle of speed and quality in mind.
Candidate would be expected to have exposure to Cloud concepts with respect to testing along with leveraging AI to bring efficiency in overall Quality engineering space. The role shall ensure that other tech experts are well guided/mentored, and the work gets delivered as per tech strategy and guidelines. The role is also expected to lead portfolio level initiatives driving efficiency and thought leadership from QA perspective.

About you

• Expertise in designing and implementing Test Strategy for complex programs using modern engineering principles and AI tools like Git-Hub Co-pilot, Claude etc.
• Extensive experience of test automation framework creation.
• Expertise in at least one functional test automation tool like Selenium, QTP, SoapUI etc.
• Expertise in Database understanding and queries.
• Expertise in API testing concepts and automation.
• Hands on experience in cloud architecture
• Experience in managing a test team of 20 + members.
• Experience of using source code management tools, e.g. SVN/GitHub
• Good understanding of Development Methodologies like “Test Driven Development” and Test Pyramid
• Candidate needs to have rich experience around AI, data, engineering skills, CI / CD and build/ deployment automation tools.
• Exposure to AI tools like Github Co-pilot is must have.
• Appreciate the business principles involved in a program
• Ability to coach and mentor the team
• Stakeholder management

Feel rewarded

For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.