Commonwealth Bank of Australia Senior Test Engineer salaries in India with 8 - 13 years exp.

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Package Offered.

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When 200 FTE in Australia got fired in 2023, middle managers in Australia understood that India FTE are competition to them & decided to keep only the vendors so that they can have enough control & make their job secure. So they introduced Pace 2.0 & made all Senior Engineers to Managers who don't know people management at all. Results of this change making employees more pressurized by making impossible deadlines and commitments. Most of the projects Product Owners are replaced with Australia FTE so that they have the control on the delivery. Work Culture become so bad that people are thinking that service based companies are better than this. Work Life balance is totally lost now.

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Salary and benefits are good compared to other companies

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I work for Bankwest bank which is subsidiary of CBA. The agile methodologies that they follow here are subjective to each team which I feel is kind of micromanaged. Again it depends on who you work under with, I personally felt there is no recognition for work. If you can show off your work, and well spoken you can sustain this kind of micromanagement.

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This company is very good for the people who are fully settled in Bangalore or the native Bengaluru people, especially for women. Work-life balance is well maintained as most of the time you will not have any work. CBA has recently started its existing system migration to the cloud but the pace of the transition is very slow. So if you can make a good rapport with the top brass then you will get the opportunity to work on those technologies. They have Pick up and drop cab service and also shuttle serive 2 times in a day.

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...that time what ever the benefits the hiring HR promised most of them were vague. There is huge amount of your CTC will be part of the veriable pay(which they called STVR), 20% of the fixed amount. It is non-negotiable. Also as per the company policy no one will get 100% percent of the STVR. On an avarage you will get maximum 50% of the STVR. CBA is very much confuse about their choice of technology. They are hiring people with very serious designation but eventually the candidate is end with silly excel report. For an example most of the Data engineers in the organisation are just running jobs and monitor them as pert of their daily work. Quality engineers are running same test cases daliy. Most of the people in this org does not have enough work to keep you busy all day.

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Offered good salary, various benifits. Flexible working hours. Good employee friendly insurance policy, various tax benifits. Easy to approach HRs. Only 40% in office attendance required. No monitoring of hours spending in office.

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I) Mostly Enhancement related works as major development already done by the vendors, so if you are looking for good development work then you will be disappointed. II) Less growth as less number of promotion. III) Managers are not good IV) Almost near to 0 possibility of changing projects V) Too much process involve for following SDLC processes from Code development to successful deployment in Production VI) Dependencies with multiple team with onshore and offshore VII) Lot of favouritism in Managers VIII) Lot of promises in Monthly Townhall discussion however in reality unable to achieve 50% of it. IX) Infrastructure is ok, however canteen food is very expensive X) A very strange process of taking in office attendance through turnstile gate swiping via mobile navigation app

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Compensation and culture is good. As this is a bank things are little slow and Technologies used are sometimes old. If you are lucky then you might not have to work on old stuff.

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Old Technologies, restrictions on what you can do.