Quality Specialist II

QA Lead For Treasury Strategic Finance Technology's QA Team

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Position Summary

Treasury Strategic Finance Technology's (TSFT) QA Team is looking for a motivated new talent to assume a QA Lead role to provide technical guidance to a team of 7+ offshore QA testers for testing of specific application(s) in a highly automated environment. This individual contributor should be passionate in automation and in building a strong team for providing effective and efficient testing for a set of applications. Experience of capital markets or banking is desired. We are looking for a test lead/team player who brings a testing mindset with a heavy focus on automated testing.

This job is responsible for testing and delivering complex software to accomplish business outcomes. The job establishes testing scope and coordinates test execution. Key responsibilities of the job include overseeing testing practices ensuring that software is tested to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements, conditioning and generating test data, building and executing both manual and automated test suites, recording and communicating the test results, triaging defects, and ensuring regression test suites are maintained and well designed.

Responsibilities

• Develops detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases based on functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements
• Leads test planning, usually at a team level. When part of a Scrum team, ensure stories are well refined and contain clear acceptance criteria
• Leads test case reviews and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to ensure test coverage
• Identifies automation opportunities and develop test automation for applicable test types
• Executes test cases, including manual and automated tests, and record test results
• Designs test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments
• Uses testing tools and follow processes to complete testing on a given test environment, and perform necessary steps required to promote code base to higher level environments

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of job related experience required.
• Extensive experience in testing planning & execution, both manual and automated testing.
• Is familiar with developing detailed, comprehensive & well-structured test cases based on functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.
• Can support test planning, usually at an agile team level, ensuring stories are well refined and contain clear acceptance criteria.
• Has strong web application, API & web services testing experience.
• Should have a strong base on complex SQL and exposure to ETL
• Can identify automation opportunities, develop test automation for applicable test types & should be automation proficient in UFT and VB6. Proficiency in Selenium, C#, and/or in Python scripting is a plus.
• Can communicate effectively.
• Can become part of a team. Team members support each other to deliver.
• Familiar with all or some of the following technologies, JavaScript, C# or Java, VB Script, Relational DBs, and Kafka.
• Enthusiastic about emerging technology, team dynamics and building/maintaining a positive working environment.
• Helps in hiring top talent and training of resources.
• Problem solving and thinking outside the box.
• Hands-on automation experience.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience of capital markets or banking although not an essential requirement.
• Onshore/offshore model

Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Automation
• Business Acumen
• Test Engineering
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• User Experience Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design

Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 40