QA

Test Analyst:

- Defining and implementing the project test strategy and approach
- Define the test policy and approach for plan for projects in conjunction with the Project Manager and other parties involved in testing
- Pull together all impacted test teams to form a project test team
- Ensure the project test team is clear on the test approach and plan, their responsibilities and the timing of their involvement
- Ensure that all relevant and impacted parties have been engaged in the definition of test objectives
- Ensure test activities are identified to mitigate all test objectives
- Document all the test activities in the project test strategy, and issue the project test strategy to timescale
- Meet with the project / business to document which test activities are being performed and which test objectives the business accepts as risks
- Coordinating project test activities
- Act as the main point of contact regarding test issues for a project
- Identify the need for test improvements and drive them into the project and related test activities
- Attend project meetings as required and regularly track the progress of all test activities
- Regularly review and update RAID (Risk, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and the scope of testing (test objectives)
- Issue the project test completion report to timescale
- Conduct a testing Project Implementation Review (PIR) 1 month post go-live of the project - providing input into and taking actions from the Project PIR (co-ordinating all inputs from and actions to the relevant test teams)
- Escalate project test issues to the project manager
- Escalate project test lead issues to line management/Test Governance forum
- Managing stakeholders, partners and supplier management
- Communicate and maintain relationships with the impacted business, operational and technical teams (internal and external) throughout the delivery of projects
- Ensure deliverables are agreed with external partners and that end delivery meets specification and contractual obligations
- Represent testing considerations in partner selection and commercial discussions
- Ensure all test results are clearly communicated to the relevant development teams
- Assuring quality
- Ensure the appropriate use of tools, metrics, and processes by projects and programmes
- Review the efficiency of programmes and projects - ensuring that they are operating within their budget and time constraints - and contribute to optimization
- Provide direction and support to programme/project managers on all aspects of testing
- Ensure projects and programmes adhere to organization testing standards, and that the test partner is supported by the right levels of resources
- Ensure testing issues and defects are escalated in a timely manner to the Project/Programme Manager and the Test Manager
- Log all defects raised during QA, and track them until resolution

**Primary skills required**:

- Knowledge of software quality assurance methodology.
- Proficiency with requirements gathering tools.
- Test Case Management
- Defect Management and tracking
- Manual Testing (hands on)
- Excellent communication skills

**Secondary skills required**:

- NA

**Nice/Good to have**:

- Test Automation
- Performance testing

**Is any certification required?**
- ISTQB Testing certification (nice to have)
- Agile methodologies (nice to have)

**Total years of Experience**:

- 5-7 years of relevant exp in testing - Manual

**Educational Qualification**:

- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

**If any additional Skills Required**:

- NA

**Notice period / Immediate Joiners**:

- Immediate Joiners

**Shift Timings**:

- General Shift

**Work From Home or Work from Client Location**:

- Gurgaon