Test Lead

Job Description

About the opportunityThe vacancy is for a highly motivated Test Lead who will be part of Central Data Team and will be responsible for test strategy and test management of projects and products in the team. The successful candidate would be responsible for liaising with the project managers, business analysts, development and business teams to estimate, plan and execute the various testing phases. This will involve creation and maintenance of all functional and non-functional activities including defining test strategy, defect management, reporting testing status to all the stakeholders and acting as a quality custodian for various projects and tools owned by the team.The right candidate will

• Exhibit a high level ownership and also look at continuous improvement opportunities
• Influence business and technology stakeholders

• Facilitate clear communication and collaboration
• Own the QA strategy and work with a high performing, self-organised & cross functional teamKey Responsibilities

• Understand the technology stack, development approach and strategic initiatives in order to define appropriate test strategy, test approach and automation framework.
• Liaising with Business/process owners directly to develop strong understanding of the business process and system requirements
• Create well defined and reusable functional test suites for various applications and products in assigned projects
• Assisting in defining and being responsible for complying to the test standards, procedures and methodologies
• Execution of test scripts/scenarios in timely, efficient and organized way
• Reporting the test preparation and test execution progress to various stakeholders
• Conduct and actively participate in defect triage and root cause analysis meetings
• Be a good team player and share the knowledge within the team
• Can demonstrate consistent and good judgement of assessing severity of issues.
• Run testing workshops with various stakeholders to identify test requirements. Liaise with developers, business analysts and business users to derive test case information and identify appropriate test coverage.
• Work closely with the business throughout to ensure a successful outcome of testing.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of testing standards, process, procedure and methodology.

Experience and Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech/MBA/M.C.A/Any other bachelors Degree.
• At least 8years of experience in both Functional and Automation testing
• Experience working on Manual testing on Front or Back office applications with asset management companies
• At least 8years of experience in Manual and Automation testing including good exposure to automation tools and technologies like BDD, Java, Test Complete, Junit, Rest API, JSP

Essential Skills

• Experience in writing test strategies and test plans for medium to high complex projects
• Experience in test estimation using various estimation techniques
• Understanding of automation test principles and framework
• Strong automation concepts and proven experience on multiple automation tools preferably Selenium
• Ability to estimate and present ROI calculation for automation initiatives
• Exposure to conflict resolution in case of contentious defects/topics with regards to quality
• Thorough understanding of test principles such as unit, smoke, functional (black box/white box), user acceptance and usability testing
• Can demonstrate consistent and good judgement of assessing severity of issues
• Hands on experience to manage the requirement traceability with the test cases
• Experience in working with multicultural and geographical diverse teams
• Ability to appropriately log defects, escalate issues and risks
• Think from a customer viewpoint and to understand the complexities of the business
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with various levels of stakeholders in application delivery, QA and business groups
• Problem solving skills with the ability to think laterally, and to think with a medium term and long-term perspective
• Hands on experience in Version Control Software: SVN / GIT / Clear case etc
• Working knowledge on Project and Build Tools: Maven, ANT, Sonar Qube, Eclipse IDE, Jenkins
• Experience of working in tight deadlines in a mature time-boxed testing environment

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Keyskills :
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