Quality Assurance Testing Specialist

Title:

Quality Assurance Testing Specialist 1

Requisition

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Automation test engineer will work closely with the product owner and business analysts to understand the business functions and requirements. The applicant should have excellent problem-solving skills and ability to review the requirements or stories and define and develop test strategy, test plan, test cases, defect management and maximizing automation (API/UI) in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures to support our product and platform teams.

The identified candidate will work with multiple software development groups to help them deliver on high-quality products. The candidate should be able to create test automation strategies following industry best-practices, continuously increase the level of automation, and play a part in reducing the time-to-market of new features as a result.

• Conduct and adjust testing methods and practices to assess and evolve product.
• Design automation test approach. Should be able to create automation scripts using Selenium etc. Align test cases to requirements and user stories.
• In conjunction with the development team, decide where to build automated and manual tests, develop test data, construct, and execute exploratory, system, regression, migration, back-end, and user acceptance tests, and determine whether to create any complex environments or any major improvements for the automation frameworks.
• Write clear and concise defect reports and work as an empathetic advocate for the customer’s quality experience.
• Triage and prioritize defects for remediation, with the development team.
• Conduct exploratory testing during each sprint to detect defects not captured by conventional methods and facilitate testing workshops.
• Automate processes within mainframe applications to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Wherever possible, conduct functional test and ensure their readability (clear, succinct, and using common business jargon) as well as tests must be maintainable (built with reusable domain specific testing language components).
• Build and design testing for automation.
• Analyze industry best practices to recommend improvements to methodology, test environments and workflow to promote an efficient and cost-effective UAT process.
• Collaborate actively with the development team.
• Embed with development teams and infuse quality in every phase of the software development lifecycle by providing continuous feedback from QA standpoint regarding standards, user experience, possible performance issues, and future bugs.
• Participate in product design and requirements analysis, work with the team during project planning to accurately estimate work (data creation, test cases/acceptance test design, test execution, framework design/improvements, scripting tasks, setup environments, etc.) and scope release deliverables (prioritizing defects and bugs).
• Lead user-centric testing initiatives and provide product team insights to help improve the product.
• Create and execute acceptance criteria based on requirements, assessing usefulness of test cases, and adjusting approach where required.
• Troubleshoot when problems arise and contribute to their resolution in a hands‑on manner as required.

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