Reporting to the QA- Functional Testing Lead,the position holder will execute Software functional testing and ensure solutions delivered to the customers meet the desired user specifications; ensuring all bugs are identified and resolved before product launch leading to zero revenue losses and customer impact.
He/she is responsible forexecuting the test strategy; plan, monitor and control the testing activities related to User Acceptance testing, with an emphasis on validating solution / product readiness for production.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for end to end user acceptance testing, end to end reporting& analysis on test progress, testing process and tracking of bugs to resolutions and stakeholder management, ensuring product testing is executed within the planned timelines
- Adopt creativity to achieve higher levels of competency and efficiency through adoption of fit for future technologies.
- Responsible for end to end management of large test teams and ensuring the testers execute within planned timelines and scope for the projects
- Accountable forimplementation and management of fully functional test environments for all IT systems ensuring stability of all test environments including subsequent upgrades and modernizations on these environments
- Accountable for administration and maintaining tools for test management (ALM); ensuring proper use of all test tools
- Define suitable metrics for measuring test progress and evaluation of the quality of the testing process and products
- Accountable for setting up quality gates and ensuring that a product is comprehensively checked and passed through all the gates before acceptance testing
- Accountability in test data management including building of tools to manage the test resources and build a process around the management of test resources
- Accountable for validation of quality of all releases and fully accountable for product readiness to production
- Undertake programs to increase the quality of delivery and ensure zero major defects escape into production
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject
- 2 years + experience in software testing in a busy IT environment
- Strong understanding of the software Testing Life cycle (STLC)
- Experience in managing large test teams
- Ability to effectively manage competing resources and priorities
- Knowledge of Acceptance Test Driven Development
- Experience in functional testing and use of test management tools (Micro-Focus ALM)
- Experience in test design techniques (black box and white box)
- Experience with report generation and analysis of testing results
- Strong risk identification and mitigation planning skills
- ISTQB Certification is a plus
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