for - Test Lead

Job Description

* Role Responsibilities Strategy
• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with project stakeholders, Interface teams and Performance Test team during planning, preparation and execution stage to ensure timely and quality of delivery.
• Demonstrate team work and collaborative efforts always and create a healthy and vibrant work environment in the work place.
• Prepare and publish Demand and Supply of testing resources to application delivery team and ensure optimum use of testing resources.
• Ensure test strategizing and planning, budgeting, estimating, tracking and running the tests is as per the plans and within approved budgets.
• Ensure test cycles are run as per the quality processes, and under the governance structure agreed with all stake-holders in the test strategies and test plans.
• All Test artefacts prepared by self and the team, meets the Testing standards and process requirements.
• Develop skills set of the team on automation tools and utilities consistently.
• All projects testing to be delivered within the estimated cost and schedule and with quality outcome.
• Manage day-to-day testing activities and provide timely resolution of the issues reported by the team.
• Highlight risks proactively to project stakeholders, work collaboratively with them to mitigate any project risks, to resolve any critical issues and try to bring the project on track during testing phase.
• Ensure all the test results / evidences are available, defect logging and make sure the correctness of defect classification by the team as per the guideline document.
• Ensure the quality of the DSR, WSR and MSR prepared by the team / self, and make sure the reports contain, concise and precise testing progress update, risks and issues and relevant testing metrics.
• Ensure that test leads and teams work closely with the delivery functions and comply with testing, configuration and release management processes for the projects responsible.
• Provide inputs to management to enhance the quality of testing, testing efficiency, new testing approach, productivity improvement and thereby reduce the testing window / timelines.
• Ensure documentation of software product defects and track it to closure.
• No functional defects leakage to UAT and Production.
• Perform resource capacity planning (ramp up / down, increasing strength of automation resources and Perm staff) on regular basis, based on the BOW, D&S and Organisation / Business function policy.
• Adhere to the company s Compliance requirements and Policy standards.
• Follow the Organisation s QA process, Testing standards and Controls.
Business
• Ensure risks / issues are captured for all projects and ensure that any changes to milestone deliverables (scope, due date, etc) have been approved by relevant PWG / PSC / PRC.
• Mitigation of risks and resolution of issues in a timely manner including developing suitable controls and measuring their effectiveness.
• Adopt DevOps in all the projects.
• Comply with QA review audit for all the BC4 / 5 applications.
• Procure dispensation on valid cases.
• Implement testing accountability and process consistently across all engagements.
• Implement standard test reporting.
• Planning and manage test environments.
• Create Test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Drive Test Automation within the team and provide mentorship.
• Prepare the Automation Test Strategy and roadmap for the area.
• Plan and execute activities in relation to Test Scripting, preparation and execution.
• Communicate to stakeholders on the Test Status, risks and issue resolution.
• Manage and coordinate Testing.
Processes
• Ensuring no adversely rated test audit, no medium or high risks rated test issues from audit and No expired / overdue risks or actions from audits.
• Unified / Standardized JIRA, test artefacts, status reports, completion report suite covering e2e test methodology by SDLC.
• Thorough understanding of the system and data architecture of the underlying product.
• Adoption of model across all domains with appropriate test methodology aligned to each project and evidence.
• Mandatory e-Learning completion.
• Enchanting block leave.
• Data Leakage Prevention.
• Adherence to Group Code of Conduct.
• Marking Daily Time sheet with specific tasks.
People and Talent
• Adherence to hygiene factors focused from the hub.
• Investigating on My Voice feedback and improve team engagement.
• Reinforce leadership and increasing participation in Leadership and Hi-connect sessions.
• Ensure Billability for the team.
• Ensure SOWs are in place and extensions and terminations of contracts are managed to avoid cost leakage.
• Maintain the right permanent: Vendor mix as per the bank s policy.
Risk Management
• Ensure all the SDF Templates followed on all the Test Deliverables.
• QA Review / TDA / Internal / External Audit controls should be maintained in central repository.
• Document all the RAID details in the Test Strategy with appropriate Mitigation plan.
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Keyskills :
board of directorskeeping things simpleenvironmental impact assessmenthuman skillstest strategylife insuranceexternal auditdefect loggingtest scripting