About VirtusaAdd the Middle East to your global professional experience and have the opportunity to work on some of the leading Digital Transformation programs.Virtusa is one of the fastest growing IT Services companies in the Middle East with a growing client base in the UAE, KSA, Qatar & Oman and we work with the leading Banking and Financial Services, Travel, Telecom and Enterprises firms in the region. We have partnered with our clients to win awards from Gartner, IDC, WfMC and other analyst for the work that we have delivered to our clients in the region.Why would you not like to be part of this exciting and award winning team? Dont listen to us, listen to our customers( ; & )Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 30,000+ people globally that cares about your growth one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.Role: Lead Software EngineerSkill: Nodejs, Typescript, Microservices, Docker/KubernetesDescription:\xc2\xb7 Minimum 5 years of coding and automation testing experience in JavaScript/Node JS technologies.\xc2\xb7 At least 1 year hands-on in TypeScript.\xc2\xb7 Experience in Automation Testing Techniques and Tools e.g., Playwright / Cucumber / Appium/ Selenium\xc2\xb7 Excellent knowledge developing scalable and highly-available Restful APIs using NodeJS technologies\xc2\xb7 Practical experience with GraphQL.\xc2\xb7 Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem\xc2\xb7 Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers , Kubernetes.\xc2\xb7 Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale.\xc2\xb7 Understanding of Single Sign on or token based authentication (Rest, JWT, oAuth)\xc2\xb7 Possess expert knowledge of task/message queues include but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and Kafka\xc2\xb7 Excellent knowledge in development and testing scalable and highly available Restful APIs / Microservices using Javascript technologies\xc2\xb7 Able to create end to end Automation test suites using Playwright / Selenium preferably using BDD approach.