Tech Lead - Quality Assurance (7-10 yrs)

Role and Responsibilities :

- 7+ 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.

- 2 to 3 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.

- Experience collaborating with project managers, developers, and business systems analysts to ensure quality throughout a project release cycle.

- 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.

- Experience in testing of Fintech Domain will be preferred.

- Lead the testing team in planning, executing and reporting each test cycle.

- Conduct functional and non-functional systems testing.

- Report defects clearly explaining the test cases and test scenarios to the development team.

- Provide support to the development team to understand the defect, data used for testing and support the development team in root cause analysis.

- Prepare & publish software testing metrics and reports covering defect counts, status of defects, ageing of defects, defect per module etc.

- Ensure 100% execution of functional and non-functional systems test cases.

- Ensure that all application interfaces and NFR items are tested.

Technical Skills :

- Ability to write SQL code and understanding of relational databases.

- Technical expertise in Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools and Techniques.

- Hands on experience managing bug reporting and test execution status tracking, using testing tools Jira.

- Proven experience in working with both with Kanban and/or Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.

Soft Skills :

- Team work and collaboration with internal / external teams

- Effective communication skills (listening, expressing, writing)

- Critical thinking, attention to detail (keen eye for identifying and resolving defects)

- Creativity and problem solving.