Senior QA Engineer

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer

Corporate Title: AVP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

• The business which this development team is supporting is the lending department within Private Bank Germany. The whole life cycle for mortgage and consumer loans as well as securitization solutions for these loans is covered within the department and supported by the several teams.
• In the last years we have developed a service layer for common development tasks, the Lending Service Layer (LSL). The Lending Service Layer provides a set of well defined, structured and reusable Lending Services (APIs) for all internal and external stakeholders. The LSL is in a steady expanding mode to integrate and offer services in a dynamical evolving environment.
• To extend and maintain these services, an experienced QA Engineer is required. This role includes the design and execution of test cases for validating the functional and technical requirements of the application. Furthermore, it includes the analysis of new requirements with the help of business analysts to organize the testing approach . In case of application issues, the QA engineer should report it to the development team and co-ordinate with them for its early resolution.
• As an Engineer he is responsible for designing, developing and delivering significant components of engineering solutions to accomplish business goals.  Key responsibilities of this role include active participation in the design of the components, ensuring that solutions are fit for purpose and maintainable, and can be integrated successfully into the overall solution and the LSL environment. Where clear, robust and well tested deployments are in practice.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy,

• Best in class leave policy.
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

Test Planning & Execution:

• Participate on development of holistic Test Approach for the application and all subcomponents
• Build functional/regression tests in Quality Center/ALM
• Carry out test execution and test reporting
• Work on test automation to build regression automation test suite from manual tests and update them for every release.
• Version control artifacts using Bitbucket, Git Hub, Perforce, SVN or any other version control tools
• Schedule automation scripts based on Release cycles.
• Must have knowledge of setting up new automation frameworks and suggest solutions for automating the existing manual processes if any in testing.
• Review daily smoke test reports, and Regression test reports. Analyse test failures and raise issues/defects to respective Dev teams.
• Update / Fix test scripts as per the functionality changes
• Achieve good test coverage

Quality

• Must have good knowledge of the software test best practises and industry standard tools
• Must be able to ensure the adherence to the organizational/departmental test strategy for the project
• Maintaining testing standards and ensure that they adhered to, as well as proactively trying to add these standards whenever possible.
• Taking pride in the quality of software delivered for each iteration and release.

Communication

• Must be able to communicate effectively with other development team members, project members, managers and end users.
• Must be able to interact and manage all the relevant stake holders of the project including Business.
• Must be able to participate in the discussions within the team, communicating any issues that have a project-wide scope to the necessary level
• Must be able to participate in a culture of 'knowledge sharing' with the development team.

Motivation

• Must be self-motivated, setting a high level of professionalism and excellence.

Your skills and experience

• You are a senior QA resource with:
• 10-12 Years of functional testing experience
• Good understanding and knowledge of automation testing methodologies
• Good Knowledge of the following: HP ALM, JIRA
• Good knowledge on testing life cycle
• Knowledge in test data maintenance
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and RDBMS databases
• Good knowledge on Unix /Linux environments and basic Unix shell scripting
• Quick learner
• Ability to prioritise and organise.
• Results driven – able to deliver good quality accurate solutions to tight time-scales.
• Conscientious – Always give 100% to tasks assigned.
• Versatile – Able to multi-task
• Team Player – Must be able to work with and participate within a large professional team.
• Professional – Expect to work the hours the job demands.
• Good communication skills
• Good trouble shooting and problem-solving skills.
• It would be desirable for the candidate to have:
• ISEB Software Testing Certification – Foundation /Intermediate /Practitioner
• Automated testing skills e.g. Selenium, HP UFT
• Knowledge of Unit Testing and Agile Methodologies
• Knowledge of scripting (VBScript, Java Scripting, Shell, Perl etc)
• Working experience in Automation and toolset
• You must be highly motivated with an eye for detail, strong communication skills and a track record of delivering successful projects into production.

Experience / Qualifications:

• Minimum 10-12 years relevant experience as QA Engineer within the IT support industry, experience in financial industry preferred.

How we'll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

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