Role

Senior QA / Associate Lead QA

Job Title

Senior QA / Associate Lead QA

Practice/Function

QA

Reporting Authority

Program Manager

Location

Pune

Type of Job

Permanent

Job Summary

·        Maintains an open, mutual and respected relationship with clients, stakeholders and team members

·        Is one of the main contributors to planning sessions, team meetings, and other “rituals,” such as the daily standup, iteration planning, iteration kickoff, iteration review, and retrospectives

·        Helps removes roadblocks to delivery success.

·        Should be ready to do hands on testing along with team and help them if they stuck.

·        Helps the other team members to follow the defined process, and contributes to process improvement efforts

·        Identify the best practices and implement it in the project.

·        Help define test plan, test strategy standards with the help of client and ensure the other team members are following the same.

·        Conduct formal and informal test reviews, test case walkthroughs and other software engineering related quality control activities

·        Provide guidance to team members, if needed, on different aspects like – new tools and techniques, best practices, emerging technologies, change control, security, and Software licenses.

·        Design and develop test cases in accordance with the defined software engineering processes, customer requirements and internal standards

·        Conduct appropriate verification and validation of software system against their design criteria, functional and performance requirements

·        Understand the client’s business strategy and objectives as it relates to the product being developed; taking all the actions required to meet or exceed client’s expectations.

·        Communicate effectively within the team and with all stakeholders by providing high-quality visibility into planned and actual deliverables.

·        Proactively communicate feedback and issues to the client and work with appropriate individuals to do so

·        Collaborates with senior team members (EM/TM) to communicate project risks to client

·        Lead/support the testcase design activities, and help with requirements, analysis and testing as needed

·        Consistently choose the right frameworks for the business solution

·        Review the tests of the other team members, providing constructive feedback and helping to increase delivery quality

·        Act as an interface between multiple teams (when required)

·        Identify process gaps, and motivate team members to resolve them

·        Share information on new technology that could be used on projects

·        Have deep domain knowledge of the product(s) and tools

·        Ensure product quality through effective monitoring of quality trends, test automation, defect tracking and root cause analysis

·        Actively guide, mentor, and motivate individuals within the team

·        Optimize delivery, meet deadlines, and deliver results

·        Participate in candidate interviews and talent management

Technical Skills

Mandatory

·        Strong experience on Testing processes

·        Strong experience on mobile testing for iOS and Android

·        Good experience on web testing

·        Good experience on mobile build processes and testing environments

·        Good experience on testcase management tool

·        Strong experience on API

·        Strong experience on Jira

·        Good experience of smoke / regression / UAT / upgrade / interruption / localization testing

·        Good understanding of CI/CD process

Nice to have / Preferred Skills

·        Testrail

·        Java

·        Selenium

·        Jenkins

·        TestNG

·        Ant/Maven/Gradle

·        Knowledge of data privacy laws and regimes

·        Performance/Security/Accessibility testing

·        Analytics

Personal Attributes

Mandatory

·        Good communications skills, especially needed for interaction with customers & US counterparts.

·        An inquiring mind that consistently looks for solutions to problems and opportunities to learn new things

·        A clear thinker with a structured and analytical-logical approach to intellectual work

·        Someone who understands what the client is trying to achieve and supports accordingly

·        Fast paced self-learner

·        A team member who is always ready to share the knowledge and support team members.

·        A completer-finisher with demonstrable attention to detail, who likes to see the job through

·        A team worker who prefers a co-operative approach to getting things done

·        Motivated by the challenges of successfully growing with a vibrant company

·        A mature, open and honest individual with a strong sense of personal integrity and ownership.

·        Ambitious, hardworking and self-motivated

Qualifications

Mandatory

·        CBSE/ICSE or SSC/HSC with consistently high performance

·        B.E. (Computer Science)/MSC (Computer Science) or equivalent. Graduation in Commerce, Arts Not recommended.

Desired

B.E, MCA, M.S.(Computer Science) or equivalent

Experience

5-7 years

 

Other

·        Ideally get first breakthrough into a reputed Software Company through Campus.

·        Experience in High End Product Company, Reputed Software Services Company with Fortune 1000 customers

·        Work experience in a Process oriented organization that has a proven record of hiring strong resources

·        Project Exposure – Long term Projects, should have played Technical lead role in project using latest technologies.

·        Job History should reflect consistency and stability.

·        Resume should reflect concise and without discrepancies

·        Candidates with strong internal/external references will be preferred.