Product Lead – Test & Release

Product Lead – Test & Release

Gurugram/Bangalore, India

The Product lead for automation will be responsible for and manage the platform and automation team. Providing test automation and test tool knowledge and expertise to support the application solutions, transversal application solutions and digital factory teams within global technology. The role holder will demonstrate a best-in-class level of expertise in all current test tools and an excellent understanding of industry trends and best practices for test tools and test automation. Reporting to the Test centre of excellence team lead, the product lead will have operational and administrative responsibility for automation and test tool SMEs who support the suite of test tools and automation framework.

DISCOVER your opportunity

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Provide vision, direction and goals for the team supporting our test automation tools and test tools.
• Best-in-class knowledge of testing tools, trends, and best practices to support global technologies test automation (including Selenium), performance testing tools (including JMETER) and test management tools (including JIRA with X-Ray plug-in).
• Work with our vendors and delivery teams to provide guidance and support whilst implementing our recommended testing tools and best practices for automation, test management and performance testing to support our business and global technology objectives.
• Drive forward the test centre of excellence roadmap to deliver automation improvements across application solutions, transversal application services and digital factory.
• Provide guidance and expertise as lead SME for our recommended testing tools and best practices.
• Manage and support the delivery of application rationalization activity for a suite of testing tools
• Work with our business, Global technology and information security teams to identify security risks and find solutions, including risk acceptance linked to the implementation and maintenance of our recommended testing tools.
• Support internal and external audits to ensure services are delivered in a controlled fashion without undue risk to the company.
• Manage service levels to ensure all test tooling and best practice commitments are met and any variances mitigated to reduce the impact on overall cost, schedule, and quality for business needs.
• Work with Delivery teams and Technical Architects in defining, analysing, planning, measuring and improving product availability and continuity for the testing tools and associated best practices.
• Identify and prioritize proactive maintenance action items for testing tools.
• Identify and champion improvement opportunities and recommendations to test tools and best practices based on industry best practices, trends and concepts.
• Implements and monitors SLA / KPI alignment across the team and range of testing tools.
• Maintain positive relationships with vendors and suppliers in pursuit of the company’s best interests.
• Estimate work requests at various levels of confidence and manage estimates against actuals to ensure change controls are appropriately managed.
• Manage risk to deliver on service level commitments and project milestones.
• Serve as a point of escalation for risks and issues.
• Be a contact point and manage Major incidents.
• Raise and manage problem tickets.
• Be a steward for ramps.
• Key conduit between Platform and automation team and wider organizational standards, structures and processes.

You will report to the Testing Center of Excellence Lead.

SHARE your talent

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Proficient with multiple application delivery models including Agile, iterative and waterfall.
• Proficient with industry-leading testing tools and best practices including Selenium, JMETER and JIRA with XRAY plug-in.
• All outsourced work performed on applications in the group performed under a fully vetted contract in alignment with Procurement processes, including Security and Legal requirements.
• Solutions implemented address company security requirements.
• Effective communication skills, particularly on key matters relating to the testing tools, best practices and recommendations to stakeholders and delivery teams.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Risk identification, management and mitigation.
• High customer confidence in testing tools and best practice recommendations.
• Stakeholder management.
• Proven planning and organization skills, creating own work schedules, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.

FIND your future

AXA XL, the P&C and speciality risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business - property, casualty, professional, financial lines and speciality.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Learn more at axaxl.com

Inclusion & Diversity

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

Our Pillars:

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving.

For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability