Software Quality Assurance Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Knowledge: Develop in-depth system and application knowledge to provide higher test quality and coverage
• Requirements Analysis: Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Test Planning: Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test cases and contribute to test plans. Contribute to the assessment of testing activities.
• Test Execution: Execute test cases, using both manual and automated tools. Ensuring that automated test cases are designed, developed and executed to the QA automation standards.
• Analyze Test Results: Analyze test results to predict user behavior, identify bugs and suggest solutions to minimize problems.
• Defect Management: Identify and record bugs in a timely manner, ensuring they are documented thoroughly, and the bugs has the correct severity and priority. Ensure the resolution of the bug by guiding it through the process for resolution.
• QA Strategy and Metrics: Deliver your work so that it is aligned to the QA Strategy for your project and provides accurate metrics for the QA Lead.
• Agile/Scrum Ceremonies: Collaborate as part of the scrum team in grooming user stories and development of acceptance criteria for the user stories. Share and communicate ideas to business, managers, and the team
• Production Support: Provide the necessary support post release to ensure deployments are successful and any defects identified in production are triaged and prioritized.
• Alignment to Frameworks and Processes: Ensure all your work is aligned to the testing frameworks, tools and processes defined for the QA Team.
• Integration and Standards: Work closely with your software development team to integrate quality assurance processes and ensure your projects are aligned to standards for test scripts to ensure consistency, maintainability and reusability.
• QA Documentation: Maintaining good quality documentation of test cases and other validations Document and review test cases and test results with project team to validate that all business and technical requirements have been met and will be covered with our testing process

Technical skills or Tools:

• 5+ years of experience with Agile methodology
• 5+ years of experience with 1 or more API testing tools: Postman, REST Assured
• 2+ years of experience with Continuous Integration tools Jenkins, GitHub
• 2+ years of experience with 1 or more performance tools: Java, SQL, JMeter, GIT, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Splunk, Grafana
• 2+ years of experience with 1 or more automation tools Like: Selenium, Eclipse, Maven
• 2+ years of experience with Database like MS SQL and MYSQL and proficient in writing SQL queries.
• Any experience with Mobile testing will be preferred
• Exposure to tools like Jira/Confluence, Slack, Google Workspace will be preferred

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate /Post Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in software testing and automation
• 3+ years of experience in SQL skills and experience working with RDBMS
• 3+ years of experience in implementing test automation strategies, automated testing methodologies, and approaches, tools, techniques (unit, functional, integration), executing automated test suites, and debugging test