Quality Assurance Consultant

Description

About the Team You Will Join :

Our Quality Assurance team is focused on key test philosophies of 'Test Early, Test Fast, Test Deep,' humanize test efforts and end-user experience focus.

Our skilled QA folks possess deep domain and platform expertise.

This team has embraced latest engineering trends like in-sprint and DevOps focused continuous test automation and multi-layer testing.

Team has been leveraging pre-built accelerators, customized automation frameworks, reusable test assets and latest tools to optimize test efforts and catch defects early in the cycle.

What You Will Do

Description

Job Summary:

- Provide guidance and support to other project team members to ensure QA best practices are followed throughout the full project lifecycle.

- Support and mentor Junior QA Consultants to support their transition to QA Consultants.

- Provide guidance and support to the wider Quality Assurance team.

- Collaborate with Talent Acquisition team for QA recruitment activities eg performing interviews.

- Ensure certifications are up to date and knowledge of Salesforce releases are maintained.

- Identify reusable assets (test practices, test scripts).

- Provide support to the Technical Lead / QA Lead to ensure the agreed solution is tested correctly and associated project documentation is reviewed.

- Assume ownership and responsibility for work items and associated documentation.

- Ensure the Project Lead and other stakeholders are aware of challenges with work items and project risks.

- Effectively manage and own testing cycles within the project lifecycle.

- Effectively capture and clearly communicate testing outcomes including defect management.

- Identification of dependencies for successful testing outcomes such as requirements for integrated systems, environments and data.

- Ownership and completion of test plans and test exit reports inline with QA lifecycle.

- Responsible for progressing tasks assigned to you from the QA monthly meetings.

Requirements :

Experience Range: 3-6 yrs of exp in QA testing.

Key Responsibilities :

Team Leadership :

- Promote positive and professional team behaviours by example.

- Act as role model to junior team members.

- Collaborate with other QA Team members to improve the way the team works.

Knowledge / Certification (testing bias)

- Certified at ISTQB Foundation level.

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

- Knowledge of creating Test Scenarios and Acceptance Tests against User Stories.

- Knowledge and understanding of Test Documentation (Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Reporting).

- Knowledge and understanding of Test Tools (including Atlassian tools eg JIRA).

- Understanding the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Testing Methodologies such as Agile, Scrum and Waterfall.

- Interest is obtaining knowledge of current testing practices and assisting with implementing them in Credera QA.

- 3 / 4 years experience of Software Testing (System Testing, UAT, Regression).

Knowledge / Certification (product/solution bias) :

- Certified Administrator (desirable).

- Interest in working towards a Channel Specialism Marketing Cloud / Pardot / CPQ / Einstein Analytics / Community Cloud (desirable).

- Good knowledge of sharing and security on the Salesforce platform.

- Achieved Mountaineer Trailblazer Rank.

Communication :

- Ability to communicate at all levels.

- Honesty and openness.

Commercial Awareness :

- Conscious of the commercial position.

- Conscious of impacts to the commercial position.

- Ensure timelines and estimates are discussed and agreed with Technical Architect / Technical Lead / Project Lead / QA Lead.

Lifecycle Knowledge :

- Understanding of the Credera Delivery Approach.

- Understanding of the Credera Quality Assurance Approach.

Project Experience :

- Experience of testing solutions over 1 or more Salesforce clouds.

- Experience of testing integrated solutions.

Location: Hyderabad / Gurgaon / Chennai/Bengaluru.

Preference will be given to those who could join within 710 days.

Professional Attributes You Possess :

- Excellent communication.

- Making decisions and solving problems involving varied levels of complexity, ambiguity and Providing a win-win environment to inspire, attract and develop the best.

- Boosting teams and individuals potential to improve their engagement, performance and career.

- Questioning conventional approaches, exploring alternatives and responding to challenges with innovative solutions or services, using intuition, experimentation, expertise and fresh.

- Problem Solving Attitude and Passion to solve Customer.

- Facilitating efficiency, speed and simplification in all.

- Adapting to market changes and competitive pressures and enables fast.

- Demonstrating passion for our business and constant hunger for outstanding.

Hybrid Work Model:

Our employees have the flexibility to work remotely two days per week.

We expect our team members to spend 3 days per week in person with the flexibility to choose the days and times that work best for both them and their project or internal teams.

This could be at a Credera office or at the client site.

You'll work closely with your project team to align on how you balance both the flexibility that we want to provide with the connection of being together to produce amazing results for our clients.

The why: We are passionate about growing our people both personally and professionally.

Our philosophy is that in-person engagement is critical for our ability to develop deep relationships with our clients and our team members it's how we earn trust, learn from others, and ultimately become better consultants and professionals.

Travel: Our goal is to keep out-of-market travel to a minimum and most projects do not require significant travel.

While certain projects can require frequent travel (up to 80% for a period of time), our average travel percentage over a year for team members is typically between 10-30%.

We try to take a personal approach to travel.

You will submit your travel preferences which our staffing teams will consider when aligning you to a role.

Credera will never ask for money up front and will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Google Hangouts for communicating with you.

You should be very wary of, and carefully scrutinize, any job opportunity that asks for money prior to starting and/or one where all communications take place exclusively via chat.