Senior QA Analysts

TERMS OF REFERENCE SENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST
1.0 JOB PURPOSE Performing quality reviews on business requirements, developing standardized testing methods and strategies, leading execution of functional and non-functional tests and implementing quality testing and reporting processes to track and ensure adherence to quality software development process and products.
2.0 RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Champion and coordinate business requirements reviews across functional teams and ensures that the business requirements are complete, precise, and testable.
• Works with project team to define and create overall project test strategy/test plan, plan test schedules or strategies and Identifies test resources, estimates test effort in accordance with project scope or delivery dates and ensures that the test strategy is achieved.
• Develop, document, and maintain manual and automated functional testcases, non-functional test cases, test scripts and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Works collaboratively with the business units and project teams to execute and validate test cases based upon business requirements and ensures that the test cases are traceable to the requirements.
• In collaboration with Enterprise Architecture teams and other critical stakeholders, tune the SQA processes, adopt tools and define re-usable templates in-line with the adoption and maturity of the Quality Assurance Framework.
• Define test process including required test activities and deliverables, conduct Test Readiness Assessment, establish test beds, and ensure that test beds are available for all planned white box and black box testing activities.
• Engages, champions, and collaborates with technical teams / personnel in non-functional testing including integration, regression, load, performance, security, and usability testing.
• Prepare, share, and review test results periodically, report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws and develop test acceptance reports for projects and software changes.
• Works with business units to perform post deployment sanity and regression tests and post implementation reviews within defined period to confirm that the deployed solution works as per the business requirements.
• Participates in formulation and Implementation of Software process improvement policies and strategies for IT division.3.0 SKILLS & EXPERIENCES: For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) / Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality)
• PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is added advantage
• Master’s degree in Business Administration or Project Management is added advantage
• Minimum 5 years experience in Software Quality Assurance
• Minimum 4 years experience in IT Projects is essential
• Minimum 2 years experience in Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc)
• Proven work experience in software development
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, techniques, tools, and processes • Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Hands-on experience with testing automation and automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Experience with non-functional testing - performance and/or security testing
• Good experience with SOA integration architecture, with understanding of ESB topologies. • Good understanding of UML.
• Working experience in reviewing quality specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Working experience in estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating quality testing activities
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.
• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
• Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.