Senior QA Engineer

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:- Learn and gain in-depth knowledge of various software products and testing methodologies of the organization Get involved in analyzing requirements (epics and stories) during the requirements analysis phase of projects Identify the gaps and clarifications in requirements, bring it to the notice of Lead, Product Owner and ensure to track the findings to closure Keep track of any new requirements / changes during the process of requirements understanding and clarification process Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes and procedures for testing the product / project are established as per standards defined Write detailed test cases to ensure optimal test coverage of software product features; Prepare traceability matrix to validate the test coverage Understand product specification and verify if product behaves as expected across releases in multiple environments Review the test deliverables produced by other team members and enter the review findings in the defect management tool identified for the project Methodically document steps which exhibit a problem and can reproduce and communicate these steps Track and report upon testing activities, including testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, etc., Ability to analyze a specific problem reported, identify the root cause and generate a detailed report Interact with team leader on project status and resolution of critical issues; Promptly escalate unresolved dependencies and issues Key Activities:- Analytically driven: Comfortable with critically analyzing stories (both functional and non-functional) Use standard methodologies to do analysis and to understand the requirement Self-sufficient: Thinks like a customer - capable of designing customer scenarios and executing them independently Personal accountability: Design Thinking - comfortable and willing to identify effective test design issues and suggests more effective methods and techniques for test design Quality focused: Capable of testing enough to ensure quality Identifies and creates the right optimal test combinations and creates test data accordingly Develops team: Teaches junior QA engineers effective ways of designing test cases and embracing common test design principles Effective communicator: Capable of clearly articulating bugs, blockers, ideas or requirement clarifications. Writes and speaks clearly expressing their thoughts and ideas; Clear and effective communication in Show tell meetings backed up by good preparation and presentation Strong team player: Finding bugs in developer s code and clearly expressing it while still maintaining a positive relationship with developers. Consistently embracing a communication style that does not make developers feel blamed Drives best practices: Leverages knowledge gained to promote best practices both within his/her work and with others in the team Functional thinker: Shows at least a basic understanding of related functional domain knowledge they don t specialize in Strong product ownership: Passionate about the feature or product they re building from both functional and customer perspective. Calls out any issues noticed immediately and proposes solutions to PO and team Self-starter: Track record of managing their own workload and identifying problems to work on Elaboration and deep-thinking skills: Can comfortably spec the functionality for medium and large stories independently to the satisfaction of product owner, and write well-defined functional specification Good mentor: Leverages wide breadth of functional and product knowledge to help other team members create more cohesive work Strong functional knowledge: Has deep knowledge across all functionalities of the product. Able to effectively communicate with team members across all layers of the functional stack of the product Valued and admired by junior QA engineers for the mentorship, critical thinking abilities, functional knowledge people development qualities QUALIFICATIONS: Must Bachelors degree with 7-9 years of work experience in software testing lifecycle working as part of a team Graphics arts knowledge for Printing industry Good analytical skills and self-initiative to learn new testing methodologies and techniques Ability to work as part of a global team with good communication skills (written and spoken English ) Desirable Hands-on experience of Test management tools, Writing and executing SQL Queries Test automation knowledge is desirable If you ve ever wondered what s within you, there s no better time to find out. Unsolicited Assistance