About the Opportunity

Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 18 November 2026

Job Description

                                                                                                

Title                 Test Specialist

Department      FIL Canada India

Location          Gurgaon, India

Reports To       Test Manager

Level                4

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 Transfers Capability team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

About your team

The Quality Engineering (QE) team is responsible for delivering automated testing solutions and ensuring high-quality releases supporting the Canadian business. The team focuses on advancing test automation, optimizing regression testing, and enabling faster, more reliable release cycles.

Working closely with the Canada QA team, Development teams, and DevOps teams, the QE team drives quality across the software delivery lifecycle through automation, continuous testing, and shift-left quality practices. The team is committed to improving delivery efficiency, reducing release risk, and accelerating business outcomes for both internal and external stakeholders.

Through strong collaboration and a quality-first mindset, the team plays a critical role in supporting the growing pipeline of Canadian initiatives while ensuring application stability, scalability, and an enhanced customer experience.

About your role

FIL India Canada Tech 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 role would focus on services, functional, data test automation and cover for key capability gaps and give this a shape of a programme with clear prioritised / agreed scope and agenda. The role will leverage/guide the existing automation experts to get this prioritised backlog delivered on time. The key outcomes shall be (but not limited to) to create services and functional automation suite keeping DevOps principle of speed and quality in mind.

The selected candidate shall be nothing short of role model technology expert in the Automation and Quality Engineering space.  The role shall be responsible for managing the day to day activities of the team along with tech guidelines, best practices and reference implementations for the existing and new automation assignments. The role shall ensure that other tech experts are well guided/mentored and the work gets delivered as per tech strategy and guidelines.

Quality Engineering - Test Specialist Responsibilities

• Lead and manage end-to-end Quality Engineering activities.
• Design, develop, maintain, and execute automated test frameworks and test suites to improve test coverage and efficiency.
• Perform release validation and regression testing to ensure application stability and quality before production deployments.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, Business Analysts, DevOps teams, and stakeholders to understand requirements and define test strategies.
• Identify, track, and manage defects, ensuring timely resolution and root cause analysis.
• Drive test automation adoption and continuous improvement initiatives aligned with the Test Pyramid and shift-left testing practices.
• Support CI/CD integration by enabling automated test execution within release pipelines.
• Analyze test results, quality metrics, and trends to provide actionable insights and quality recommendations.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards, testing best practices, and organizational QE processes.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing within the QE team.
• Ability to coach and mentor the team
• Technical Problem Solving Skills

Required Skills and Experience

• Expertise and experience in designing and implementing Automation Strategy.
• Experience of working in Test Pyramid.
• Expert level experience on Core Java and J2EE development.
• Experience of test automation framework design for service layer/API.
• Expert in atleast one functional test automation tool like selenium, Test complete etc.
• Expert in Playwright automation for frontend component testing.
• Relevant experience in Application development tools and frameworks like maven, ant, check style, PMD, fortify, junit, fitnesse, SOAP UI etc.
• Experience with Oracle (preferably Oracle 10G), stored procedures, queries
• Experience of using source code management tools, e.g. SVN/GitHub
• Good understanding of Development Methodologies like “Test Driven Development”
• Candidate needs to have rich experience around engineering skills, CI / CD and build/ deployment automation tools.
• Appreciate the business principles involved in a project
• Ability to coach and mentor the team
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise applications and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage testing deliverables across multiple concurrent projects and releases.

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.