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? Don\xe2\x80\x99t 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 \xe2\x80\x94 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, Banking (Crypto payments)Description:Experience\xc2\xb7 Minimum 5 years of coding and automation testing experience in JavaScript 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/ SeleniumTechnical Skills\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.\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 including but not limited to: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Pushpin and KafkaFunctional Skills\xc2\xb7 Experience in following best Coding, Testing, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices\xc2\xb7 Experience in Agile methodology.\xc2\xb7 Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.