Mgr, QA & Testing

Key Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with project stakeholders, Interface teams and Testing Test team during planning, preparation & execution stage to ensure quality of delivery
• Demonstrate teamwork and collaborative efforts always and create a healthy & vibrant work environment in the workplace
• Prepare and publish Demand & Supply of testing resources to application delivery team and ensure optimum use of testing resources
• All Test artefacts prepared by self meets the Testing standards & process requirements
• Develop skills set along with the team on automation test tools & utilities consistently
• Deliver day-to-day testing activities and provide timely resolution of the issues reported
• Highlight risks proactively through squad, work collaboratively to mitigate any project risks, to resolve any critical issues
• Ensure all the test results/evidence are documented, defects logged and ensures defect classification as per project guideline
• Ensures he/she works closely with the team & delivery functions to comply with testing, configuration and release management processes for the projects responsible.
• Work closely with Project test lead to ensure deliverables are reviewed and are on time
• Ensures the quality of the status reports such as DSR, WSR & MSR prepared by self, and make sure the reports contain, concise & precise testing progress update, risks & issues and relevant testing metrics
• Adhere to the company's Compliance requirements & Policy standards
• Follow the Organisation's QA process, Testing standards & controls
• Responsible to coordinate with project team members and deliver tasks through Agile sprints
• Responsible to create automated test scripts using Selenium/Cucumber framework
• Should be able to articulate automation test scenarios from Azure/JIRA/manual test cases/test steps into along with their validations
• Responsible to prepare SQL queries to fetch test data from data base of the test application
• Should possess good understanding and hands-on experience on API transactions and to automate such transactions using selenium/cucumber
• Responsible to execute automated regression test pack for regression tests/SIT/UAT/Sanity checks
• Should be an expertise in handling test automation tool, Selenium and the framework, Cucumber
• Should also have hands-on experience in tools like, Intelli-J, Eclipse IDE, Responsible to design automated test scripts using Selenium and Cucumber framework
• Should have good knowledge in DevOps pipeline
• Should be an expert using BitBucket, GIT and Jenkins
• Should be an expertise in JAVA programming language and OOPs concepts
• Knowledge on investment and wealth banking products will be hight considered
• Responsible to get the automation test scripts reviewed by the reviewer and be able to conduct attend such sessions for the peers
• Should possess strong knowledge on regression testing, boundary analysis, white box and black box testing
• Should have experience in conducting test execution for the application under test and its surrounding/interfacing systems
• Should possess strong communication and presentation skills
• Should have the ability to discuss to product owners and developers if there is a need for clarifications
• Log the defects into the defect management tool
• Responsible to support the automation team members on their day-to-day challenges and collectively to create a robust automated regression test suite for the application
• Realtime experience in Agile Delivery and implementation
• Strong & effective communication
• Ability to deliver independently, as independent contributor

Skills and Experience

• Banking Domain Knowledge is preferable
• Experience in the software development using Agile methodologies
• Experience in software testing life cycle using Agile methodologies
• Knowledge & Experience in practising Agile & Lean framework 
• Knowledge & Experience in the API & SQL
• Knowledge in Java programming language
• Knowledge in Selenium Automation / Cucumber / TestNg
• Experience in preparing Test Plan and Automation Test Strategy for the applications. Test Automation script development experience for Web, Client's, Mobile, Mainframe etc
• Knowledge in Performance Testing is an added advantage.
• Advocate delivery excellence, minimising delivery risk.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in agile development.
• Conduct continuous development and/or integration & testing.
• More than 7+ years' experience in software testing domain