Lead Consultant – QA Manual

Inviting applications for the role of Lead Consultant, QA Manual

This is a key and highly visible role responsible for the successful delivery of complex enterprise-wide initiatives and projects. The ideal candidate should have strong manual testing experience (web-based and mobile applications). He or she should be able to author Test Plan, design complex test cases, review the test cases and automate the test cycle process.

Responsibilities

• The Quality Assurance Tester Engineer performs manual testing on all internally developed applications, with an eye toward development for automated testing of both web based and service based technology.

• The QA Tester / Engineer works with development and the business to plan the testing approach and then execute on the plan.

• Working in an Agile development environment, the candidate must contribute to sprint planning efforts by evaluating complexity and estimating level of effort for tasks, solving issues and ensuring sprint goals can be met.

• Tests and evaluates in-house and third-party software to ensure compliance with organizational standards and requirements.

• Plan, create and maintain test environments for various use cases.

• Review specifications, create/edit test suites, and identify areas where test suites need improvement.

• Validate applications against specifications, using documented test procedures, report defects using JIRA.

• Perform regression, integration and release testing for applications.

• Collect and report metrics for test runs.

• Collaborate with other team members, software developers and management to ensure comprehensive test coverage.

• Provide software engineers and developers with necessary analysis to establish matrixes and measurements for quality reporting to IT management.

• Engage in full life cycle of testing and Quality Assurance practices, in multiple types of project methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile.

• Testing for package, custom and mobile applications.

• Works on multiple high priority projects concurrently.

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum Qualifications

• BE / B.Tech / MCA / BCA

• Hands on experience as a Quality Assurance Analy

• Handles complex issues and problems, and refers only the most complex issues to higher-level staff

• Comprehensive knowledge of the field%27s policies, procedures, and practices

• Dynamic QA experience with software delivery, 3rd party software implementations, and maintenance

• Experience in manual and automated testing

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills

• Experience in functional, performance and mobile testing

• Superb communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to learn new processes and systems quickly.

• Working knowledge of Project Management and Testing tools (MS Project, JIRA, Selenium, SOAP UI tools desirable)

• Proficiency in MS Office Suite

• Understanding of QA process for software development, debugging and release

• Ability to objectively review and qualify objective data

• Good time-management skills

• Great interpersonal and communication skills