SQA Consultant

Shift: 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Location: Pune (hybrid)

Essential Responsibilities

• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Leads the development of quality assurance (QA) test project strategies, methodologies, and standard processes for large-scale, complex IT initiatives spanning all QA domains by analyzing business and technology requirements to ensure testability and traceability, and determining testing scope and approach.
• Oversees and addresses critical issues, dependencies, and risks related to testing.
• Ensures quality assurance projects are appropriately staffed, work plans are followed, and milestones are met.
• Reviews and signs off on testing scope and approach, and partners with cross-functional IT and business stakeholders to review and approve the overall testing approach.
• Manages the development test scenarios and execution of test cases across all testing phases (e.g., SIT, Performance, UAT, Automation, Production, Validation).
• Ensures quality metrics are tracked across testing phases (e.g., SIT, Performance, UAT, Automation, Production, Validation).
• Manages the review and validation of testable business processes, test data, and test environment requirements.
• Develops quality assurance (QA) project plans for moderately to highly complex projects by identifying project scope, work plans, schedules, milestones, and critical paths, and ensuring proper staffing.
• Develops guidelines and best practices to ensure test plans and timelines are aligned with project/program milestones.
• Defines and ensures adherence with entry and exit criteria according to testing standards.
• Reviews project status and milestones reports, provides justification for and first-level authorization for exceptions and waivers, and meets with IT and business stakeholders to address contingency plans, as appropriate.
• Generates scheduled reports (e.g., test execution, defects, ad hoc reports) and provides daily test execution metrics to IT teams and management, as appropriate.
• Initiates and evaluates required business process improvements in order to achieve business results and appropriate solutions for customers.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in SQA, software testing or related field.
• Minimum four (4) years of Test automation using Java
• Minimum four (4) years of Test management tools like Qtest or QualityCenter or similar tools
• Minimum four (4) years of Defect management tools like JIRA or Rally
• Minimum four (4) years of API Test / Debugging tools like Postman, etc
• minimum 4 years experience working in and defining the requirements for virtual testing environments
• Minumum 4 years of experience in JMETER must have very good communication & family with onsite/offshore working model