Role Proficiency:

Ensuring adherence to test practices and process to improve test coverage

Outcomes:

     Create Test Estimates and Schedules      Identify business processes conduct risk analysis and ensure test coverage      Ensure adherence of processes and standards      Produce test results defect reports test logs and reports for evidence of testing      Publish RCA reports and preventive measures      Report progress of testing      Contribute for Revenue savings for client by suggesting alternate method Quality of Deliverables

Measures of Outcomes:

Test Script Creation and Execution Productivity Defect Leakage Metrics (% of defect leaked % of UAT defects and % of Production defects) % of Test case reuse Test execution Coverage Defect Acceptance Ratio Test Review efficiency

Outputs Expected:

Test Design
Development
Execution:

Participate in review
walkthrough
demo and obtain sign off by stakeholder for Test Design Prepare Test summary report for modules/features

Requirements Management:

Analyse
Prioritize
Identify Gaps and create workflow diagrams based on Requirements/User stories

Manage Project:

Participate in Test management

Domain relevance:

Identify business processes
conduct risk analysis and ensure test coverage

Estimate:

Prepare Estimate
Schedule
Identify dependencies

Knowledge Management:

Consume
Contribute
Review (Best Practices
Lesson learned
Retrospective)

Test Design
Execution:

Test Plan preparation
Test Case/Script Creation
Test Execution

Test & Defect Management:

Conduct root cause and trend analysis of the defects

Test Planning:

Identify the test scenarios with understanding of systems
interfaces and application Identify end-to-end business critical scenarios with minimal support Create/Review the test scenarios and prepare RTM

Skill Examples:

     Ability to create and manage a test plan      Ability to prepare schedules based on estimates      Ability to track and report progress      Ability to identify test scenarios and prepare RTM      Ability to analyse requirement/user stories and prioritize testing      Ability to carry out RCA Ability to capture and report metrics

Knowledge Examples:

     Knowledge of Estimation techniques      Knowledge of Testing standards      Knowledge of identifying the scope of testing      Knowledge of RCA Techniques      Knowledge of Test design techniques Knowledge of Test methodologies

Additional Comments:

Test expertise * Design test cases and write test case scripts. * Prepare test environment, test data, and execute test cases. * Provide sign-off (go/no-go) on tested features based on defined exit criteria, * Continuously assess the need to add/update/remove test cases to existing regression and CI/CD pipeline when new product features are delivered and based on metrics (stabilization, deletion of flaky tests...), * As part of maintenance activities, investigate PTRs, test the fixes, and enrich test suites accordingly, Test automation * Assess necessity to automate subset of (or all) test scripts, Knowledge on Python * Use test automation framework like Robot and contribute to its improvement, Defect management * Open defects for software or documentation, assign relevant level of severity based on the importance of the issue, provide relevant investigation and information in order to fix defects, * Check defect fix, and give go/no-go for the load of production defects, Reporting * Report and communicate on test activities to the line organization, software developers and product definitions analysts, * Provide visibility on testing campaign/milestones to all stakeholders, Support * Provide mentoring and adapted support to newcomers, * Provide adapted support to QAE peers based on experience, Knowledge sharing * Share knowledge on a specific topic (technical/functional) and spread it among the QA community as well as other stakeholders, Quality assurance ambassador * Show accountability for the project, product or release quality control, * Propagate quality assurance best practices based on highest standards in relevant teams and quality communities, Technicity * Efficiently use QA tooling stack and frameworks, * Be a force of proposition for improvement of existing ones, or development of new ones, * Be proactive about any issue/change that is likely to affect QA peers daily job Continuous and sustainable improvement * Be a driving force behind proposals to improve current quality processes in a constantly evolving development lifecycle framework (SAFE...), * Participate to the understanding, measurement and reduction of the environmental impact of the tested applications and associated QA activities