Job Title

QA Lead

Company Name
Apex Group Ltd
Job Type
Full-time
Qualification
B.Tech/B.E.
Experience
7 Years
Vacancies
1
Salary Offered
Not Disclosed
Job Category
Location
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Description

Key duties and responsibilities:
Manage, Coach and Mentor a team of QA Analysts, to ensure the team stays motivated and well managed.
Act as Deputy Management Representative for the QA Manager in their absence.
Help manage and implement continuous improvement initiatives that will help mature the QA test function to deliver team effectiveness and an overall high quality of products and services.
Implement the QA Policy & Strategy for allocated projects within the allocated Apex QA team, supporting the drive for increased QA Automation.
Write, walkthrough, sign off and execute Project Test Plans that will take the project team through an end-to-end journey to prove successful deployment and implementation.
Ensure that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets.
Perform test execution (manual and automated) and provide clear and concise test progress reporting that is reflective of the test program status for key stakeholders and executive review.
Monitor QA activities, test results, defects, root cause analysis and identify areas needing improvement.
Work with internal and external teams and vendors to define their roles and responsibilities with regards to QA to demonstrate end to end Quality Assurance on projects.
Confident in client / 3rd party supplier / vendor management.
Ensure QA process and methodology are applied at all stages during SDLC.
Audit all documentation that is produced during the QA SDLC for quality, storage, revisions and sign off.
Participate in requirements/design reviews with Product, Business Analysts and Development teams to assure that the product under development meets requirements and is tested efficiently.
Perform requirements reviews and traceability analyses to assess test coverage.
Manage & Report on the required tests that will demonstrate successful deliverables from internal and external parties.
Progress and status reporting on a regular basis on overall Quality and Test phase metrics.
Identify and manage risks, creating plans to mitigate those risks, that may adversely affect quality, schedule or budget.
Actively participate in lessons learned sessions to help improve QA process.

Experience and skills:
2+ years of QA Lead experience.
7+ years of QA experience.
Experience in QA best practices and processes implementation.
Good all-round IT Quality Assurance background from preferably from several industries / domains.
Experience in both Waterfall and Agile, BDD, Dev Ops testing methodologies.
Experience of using Automation tooling and Automation frameworks.
Experience with writing the Test Approach, Test Plan and leading testing for manual, automated and non-functional testing.
Experience in running UAT exercises with globally dispersed teams.
Good understanding of cloud (Azure) technologies, infrastructure, networks, firewalls & Citrix.
Good knowledge of Jira or similar test management tools (incl. Zephyr, X-Ray).
Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and coordinate with globally dispersed technical and non-technical teams.
Very strong organisational and stakeholder management skills with ability to negotiate at all levels.
Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills and ability to build strong working relationships at senior management level.
Proactiveness and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize effort accordingly.
Ability to act on own initiative with a can-do attitude.
Ability to discuss required test scope with technical and non-technical team members.
Ability to work in a quickly changing environment.
Promotes continuous process improvement especially in code quality, testability & reliability.

Nice to have:
ISTQB Certification or equivalent.
Experience in IT in a Financial Services organization.
Understanding of Citrix infrastructure, including Application Layering.
Reasonable understanding of infrastructure, application architecture, networking and Active Directory.
Good understanding of performance testing concepts and tools.
Experience of using UiPath for Test management and Automation.

Key Skills

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Posted Date
May 16, 2023
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