Functional Test Engineer

Skillset Description

• A strong academic record including a B.E/B.tech/MCA/M.Sc level or equivalent IT related degree
• QA accreditation (ISTQB Foundation, or a similar IT accreditation from a recognised third level institution or accreditation body)
• Have a minimum of 4 to 8 years of experience in full time Life and Annuities functional testing role 
• Should have working experience in various Annuities LOB such as Index-linked annuities, fixed and variable annuities, fixed indexed annuities, income annuities, etc (Primary and Must-Have)
• Should have working experience in various Life LOBs such as Term Life, permanent Life including universal life, indexed universal life, whole life, and variable universal life (Primary and Must-Have)
• Should have expertise working in various Life and Annuities industry COTS technology platforms (Primary and Must-Have)
• Should have domain expertise working in Life and Annuities End-to-End starting from Illustration, New Business , policy and claims administration and downstream applications Functional Value-chain  (Primary and Must-Have)
• Should have expertise and experience in test management tools such as JIRA & Zephyr & Confluence tools (Must-Have)
• Hands-on experience in Test Automation Framework in Selenium, Java based Framework (Good to Have)
• Should be familiar in DevOps frameworks in Cloud (Must-Have)
• Should be Team player with Team Leading experience
• Should has experience in Stakeholders management
• Should have strong communication skills.

• Should have hands-on proficiency in functional test strategy and test plan preparations, test design and test case preparations, test data management and test execution of in-sprint, System integration Testing, End-to-End testing, Regression and Smoke testing aligned to L&A functional end-to-end value-chains workflows and business functions
• Should be able to support and perform User acceptance testing 
• Should be able to coordinate and reporting on testing delivery activities across the owned delivery workstreams 
• Should be responsible for contributing to the delivery of IT Projects through methodologies such as Agile Scrum/Kanban and traditional Waterfall (when required)
• Create high-quality work products and act as a subject matter resource, leveraging knowledge and experience to shape services to client problems
• Should be able to demonstrate the client on the Functional value-adds by bringing in the Point-solutions and accelerators  
• Have prior experience of directly interacting with client Subject Matter expertise, Business Analysts, and relevant stakeholders 
• Should be able to design and run Automation Tests at basic level  
• Should be familiar with code reviews, design patterns, and implementing best practices in functional testing
• Have structured approach to problem solving and be a self-starter with the ability to work independently managing own workload with an attention to detail.