Job Description

Summary:We are hiring for IT Quality Assurance Test Lead to join our team in Gurgaon/Bangalore.You Will Make an Impact By:

• Provide guidance on and participate in software development activities including design and code reviews, requirements reviews, bug tracking and prioritization/severity, functional specifications, product design documents, defined acceptance criteria, test plans, test cases, and other documentation as required and provide timely feedback
• Support BSAs and development teams on the validation of IT software/tools - both application and infrastructure
• Collaborate with BSAs ,developers, scrum master and project manager to execute on delivering solutions to improve business and customer experiences and optimize testing schedules
• Mentor and develop other QA team members, providing guidance and support to enhance their skills and knowledge
• Demonstrate a collaborative attitude and a strong desire to strive for testing standards and efficiencies
• Manage numerous and concurrent QA initiatives for large initiatives, including test planning, test execution, and bug tracking
• Influence documentation BSAs to comply with functional and non-functional requirements, compliance requirements and industry best practices
• Establish and maintain software quality assurance test strategy/test plans, test summary, test cases, testing status and bug status, entrance and exit criteria from the testing phases, and controls
• Work closely with the BSAs and Development teams to identify SDLC improvements
• Influence IT Product Delivery Owners on the requirements Definition of Done and software design, documentation, verification, and validation of requirements
• Oversee and influence BSAs and Development teams of test entrance and exit criteria to meet needs of testing completed
• Participate in product design reviews. Creating and executing test plans, test designs and test cases and generating test status and bug reports for them
• Act as QA Test Lead for large initiatives
• Creating and updating Requirements Traceability between requirements and tests cases for overall test coverage
• Work with the scrum master, project managers and product owners to prioritize, size or deprioritize the backlog during sprint planning meetings

Skills You Bring:

• 5 years of hands experience in software/IT quality experience in a fast-paced environment, working through all phases of the software development life cycle with focus on Front and back-office applications web-based applications. (e.g. Oracle, SAP, ISVs such as Thomson Reuters, Treasury Management, Infrastructure upgrades, Integrations, etc.)
• 3 to 5 years of automation testing experience - defining, building, and overseeing the implementation of a proven automation test strategy
• Experience creating thoroughly documented test strategy/test plans, test scenarios and test cases and executing upon them
• Ability to write SQL code and understanding of relational databases
• Experience collaborating with project managers, developers, and business systems analysts to ensure quality throughout a project release cycle
• Must be willing and able to change direction during a project release as requirements and priorities change
• Work in a high-energy, fast-paced, collaborative environment and be self-motivated and passionate about QA
• Demonstrate a collaborative attitude and a strong desire to strive for testing standards and efficiencies
• Proven experience in working with both with Kanban and/or Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies
• Experience in testing integrating Oracle EBS, SAP, etc.
• Hands on experience managing bug reporting and test execution status tracking, within testing tools such as Jira, Test Rail, ALM, Azure DevOps, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• B.Tech/BCA/ Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Software Quality Assurance Certifications a plus
• Experience with ServiceNow or a similar ITSM tool is a plus

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