Testing and Quality Assurance Services

**Req ID**: 329819

We are currently seeking a Testing and Quality Assurance Services to join our team in Bangalore, Karnātaka (IN-KA), India (IN).
**Senior Quality Engineer**

**Senior Quality Engineer**

**Who we are**:
NTT DATA America's strive to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. Launch by NTT DATA is the culmination of the company's strategy to acquire and integrate the skills, experience, and technology of leading digital companies, backed by NTT DATA's core capabilities, global reach, and depth.

**How You'll Help Us**:
Our clients need digital solutions that will transform their business so they can succeed in today's hypercompetitive marketplace. As a team member in our Quality Engineering practice, you will help make these digital solutions come to life by ensuring every deliverable is defect-free. You will routinely deliver automated testing solutions to clients that will impact their products, customers, and services.

**How We Will Help You**:
**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Maintain an automation-first mindset and approach.
- Primary point of contact for the QE team and responsible for all QE deliverables
- Enforce testing best practices and guide the team to follow those standards.
- Finds opportunities for automation in lieu of manual testing and enforces the Automation First, Contract First approach.
- Design & develop test automation frameworks and customize test automation framework on project needs.
- Understand and follow business requirements, identify gaps in the business requirements, advice the client accordingly and helps the team in covering all business use cases.
- Able to define test strategy and leads the team in implementing it.
- Guide QEs on test plan, approach, tools, and test automation scripting needs.
- Identify, define, and manage tools and processes for the team.
- Mentor team members on Scrum and Agile framework.
- Effectively use and guide the team on test management tool (test design, execution, reporting, traceability matrix)
- Assist in implementation of the test management tool within the team.
- Establish, generate, and publish test execution & bug reports, testing metrics, trends etc.
- Effectively use and guide the team on defect management process (Create, set priority/severity, retest, close, root cause analysis, defect prevention)
- Guide team members on identifying the root cause of bugs (e.g. API/BE, data, UI, logs, or environment issues etc.)
- Generate and guide team members on bug metrics and reports.
- Coordinate bug triage between business, dev, and test teams across all kinds of bugs.
- Drive and train team members to create and execute test cases (happy path, edge cases, negative, complex business scenarios) for REST or SOAP APIs.
- Train team members to write and execute complex SQL queries and commands.
- Lead internal team meetings and drive communication with clients.
- Actively participate in client meetings, project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture and detailed design documents
- Manage and perform load and stress tests using enterprise level test automation tools.Manage, lead, and maintain physical, virtualized, and simulated test environments.

**Basic Qualifications**:

- 8+ years of experience in designing and developing a new test automation framework from scratch using a test automation tool like Playwright /Selenium/Cucumber/Java
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in software testing and writing test automation code in at least one programming language like Java
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing and executing test scripts for REST or SOAP based APIs.
- 4+ years of experience in intercepting and mocking complex HTTP API calls in UI and API tests.
- 2+ years of experience in messaging systems (AMQ, WMQ or Kafka).
- 4+ years of experience in writing and guiding teams on complex end-to-end tests automation.
- 4+ years of experience on test management and defect tracking tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, HP ALM, etc.
- 4+ years of experience in driving defect management strategy (create, set priority/severity, retest, close, traceability, reporting etc.)
- 2+ years of experience in driving the team to implement automated test suites for all testing types (unit, component, API, UI, UAT, E2E, etc.)
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in writing and executing complex SQL queries and understands concepts like indexing, schemas, views, etc.
- 2+ years of experience in training team members to understand version control concepts.
- 2+ years of experience in guiding the team on version control concepts, tools and hands-on experience on commands and operations (like commit, fetch, push, pull, squash, resolve merge conflicts etc.)
- 3+ years of hands-on experience on at least one of the performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, K6, LoadRunner, NeoLoad, etc.).
- 1+ years of experience in analyzing performance testing requirements and implementation of load, stress, endurance, v