Applications Development Tech Lead Analyst - VP

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis, programming, implement and lead test automation for integration, functional and regression tests.
 

The Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities:

• Design, architect, engineer and develop framework to improve applications quality.
• Determine approach to implement Automated testing strategy and responsible for executing that strategy across Helios project.
• Work side by side with other engineering leaders to implement test automation in functional and foundational group within Helios.
• Ensure integration of CI/CD pipeline to drive product quality.
• Ability to communicate clearly and manage senior stakeholders.
• Server as Automaton SME and help in building robust automated test.
• Implement performance testing, scalability and security testing practices and methodologies.
• Identify the opportunity for automation, then design, develop, and implement the automated process.
• Provide Best in Class Production Availability, Resiliency and Predictability to the business by designing solutions that are fault tolerant, scalable, reliable and building always-on systems for high availability.
• Consult with users, clients, and other technology groups on issues, and recommend solutions, install, and support customer exposure systems
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of experience in Programming Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript
• 5+ years of experience creating automation frameworks and working with tools to support test automation.
• 5+ years of experience in testing microservice & frontend applications
• 3+ years of experience in BDD tools (cucumber)
• Experience in performance testing
• Experience implementing/managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in manual and automated testing best practices
• Experience working in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage to tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirement