Java Automation Lead II

Role Proficiency:

Create and Organise testing process based on project requirement and manage test activities within team

Outcomes:

1. Test Estimates and Schedules-. Ensure Test Coverage
2. Produce test results defect reports test logs and reports to evidence for testing
3. Publish RCA reports and preventive measures
4. Ensure Quality of Deliverables
5. Report project metrics and status
6. Ensure adherence of Engineering practices processes and standards
7. Understand and contribute to test automation/performance testing
8. Work with DevOps team when required; to understand testing framework and QA process for implementing continuous testing
9. Manage team utilization

Measures of Outcomes:

1. Test Script Creation and Execution Productivity
2. Defect Leakage Metrics (% of defect leaked % of UAT defects and % of Production defects)
3. % of Test case reuse
4. Test execution Coverage
5. Defect Acceptance Ratio
6. Test Review efficiency
7. On-time delivery Effort Variance
8. Test Automation Coverage

Outputs Expected:

Supporting Organization:

1. Ensure utilization and quality of deliverables prepared by the team
2. Co-ordinate Test Environment and Test Data provisioning

Test Design

Development

Execution:

1. Participate in review
   
   walkthrough
   
   demo and obtain sign off by stakeholder
2. Prepare Test Summary Report for modules/features

Requirements Management:

1. Analyse
   
   Prioritize
   
   Identify Gaps; create workflow diagrams based on Requirements/User stories

Manage Project:

1. Participate in Test management
2. Preparing
   
   Tracking and Reporting of Test progress based on schedule

Domain relevance:

1. Identify business processes
   
   conduct risk analysis and ensure test coverage

Estimate:

1. Prepare Estimate
   
   Schedule
   
   Identify dependencies

Knowledge Management:

1. Consume
   
   Contribute
   
   Review (Best Practices
   
   Lesson learned
   
   Retrospective)

Test Design

Execution:

1. Test Plan preparation
   
   Test Case/Script Creation
   
   Test Execution

Risk Identification:

1. Identification of risk/issues and prepare Mitigation and Contingency plans

Test & Defect Management:

1. Conduct root cause and trend analysis of the defects

Test Planning:

1. Identify the test scenarios with understanding of systems
   
   interfaces and application
2. Identify end-to-end business critical scenarios with less support Create and review the test scenarios and prepare RTM
3. Prepare estimates (time /effort) based on the requirements/User stories
4. Identify scope of testing

Client Management:

1. Define KPIs to the engagement and ensure adherence to these KPIs.

Stakeholder Connect:

1. Handle monthly/weekly governance calls and represent issues for the team

Skill Examples:

1. Ability to Create Review and manage a test plan
2. Ability to prepare schedules based on estimates
3. Ability to track report progress and take corrective measures on need basis
4. Ability to identify test scenarios and prepare RTM
5. Ability to analyze requirement/user stories and prioritize testing
6. Ability to carry out RCA
7. Ability to capture and report metrics
8. Ability to identify Test Data and Test Env. Specifications

Knowledge Examples:

• Knowledge of Estimation techniques
• Knowledge of Testing standards
• Knowledge of identifying the scope of testing
• Knowledge of RCA Techniques
• Knowledge of Test design techniques
• Knowledge of Test methodologies
• Knowledge of scope identification and planning
• Knowledge of Test automation tools and frameworks
  
  Additional Comments:

UST(r) is looking for an experienced Senior Test Automation lead (SDET) to join our engineering team and to work with one of the leading financial services organization in the US. The candidate must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with domain experts and technical experts in the team. The candidate must have proven experience in test design and analyzing and troubleshooting results with a development team. The ideal candidate should have experience in developing application development using Java technologies that includes requirement analysis, functional & performance test development and automation. Responsibilities: Work with the scrum team to identify testing needs and opportunities. Work with the QA team in developing a QA testing strategy for the project, determining the appropriate balance of manual and automated tests, as well as the types of tests (UI, web service API, functional/performance/load, and so on). Understand existing application functionality and create Test Cases Develop automated test frameworks and test cases for the different types of tests Execute and report on the full testing suite of both manual and automated tests. Conduct technical reviews with other programmers, technologists and technicians and other engineering and scientific personnel. Report any issues with the client stakeholders and UST leadership Ensure the Quality Engineering standards and process are followed in the SDLC Prepare Quality Checklist, Release Checklist, and QA Certificates Requirements: BS degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, able to communicate with technical people as well as business and management. Expertise in QA methodologies, Test Process and practices 5 plus years of Software Engineering testing experience with manual testing, automation testing, developing and executing automated test scripts using Automated Testing Tools (such as Selenium, Cucumber etc.) 2 plus years of hands on experience using Selenium and Cucumber Must have prior experience in Java or .NET, object-oriented design and development Working experience with Selenium WebDriver (Java) Expertise in testing object-oriented and service-oriented design, and multi-threaded services/applications. Prior hands-on experience in testing cloud architectures that include multi-tenancy, horizontal scale, micro services and RESTful APIs. Knowledge of testing SQL and/or Cloud Databases, and understanding of database queries Strong hands-on experience in the API Testing using Rest Assured/HTTPClient/Karate tools Knowledge in CI/CD using Jenkins

Required Skills

Api Testing,Selenium,AUTOMATION TESTING,java