Lead Quality Engineer

At NTT DATA, we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees have been key factors in our company's growth and market presence. By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, we ensure a bright future for NTT DATA and for the people who work here.

For more than 25 years, NTT DATA Services have focused on impacting the core of your business operations with industry‑leading outsourcing services and automation. With our industry‑specific platforms, we deliver continuous value addition, and innovation that will improve your business outcomes. Outsourcing is not just a method of gaining a one‑time cost advantage, but an effective strategy for gaining and maintaining competitive advantages when executed as part of an overall sourcing strategy.

NTT DATA Services currently seeks a “job title” to join our team in “location”.

Joining our Quality Engineering practice is not only a job, but a chance to grow your career. We will make sure to equip you with the skills you need to implement enterprise‑grade test automation and help your teams produce robust, defect‑free applications that you can be proud of. Whether it is providing you with training on quality assurance practices, a new programming language, test automation tools, or helping you get certified in a variety of areas, we will help you grow your skills so you can continue to deliver increasingly valuable work.

• Maintain an automation‑first mindset and approach.
• Primary point of contact for the QE team and responsible for all QE deliverables
  Enforce testing best practices and guide the team to follow those standards.
• Finds opportunities for automation in lieu of manual testing and enforces the Automation First, Contract First approach.
• Design & develop test automation frameworks and customize test automation frameworks to project needs.
• Understand and follow business requirements, identify gaps in the business requirements, advise the client accordingly, and help the team in covering all business use cases.
• Able to define test strategy and lead the team in implementing it.
  Guide QEs on test plan, approach, tools, and test automation scripting needs.
• Identify, define, and manage tools and processes for the team.
• Mentor team members on Scrum and Agile framework.
• Effectively use and guide the team on the test management tool (test design, execution, reporting, traceability matrix)
• Assist in the implementation of the test management tool within the team.
  Establish, generate, and publish test execution & bug reports, testing metrics, trends, etc.
• Effectively use and guide the team on defect management process (Create, set priority/severity, retest, close, root cause analysis, defect prevention)
• Guide team members on identifying the root cause of bugs (e.g. API/BE, data, UI, logs, or environment issues etc.)
• Generate and guide team members on bug metrics and reports.
  Coordinate bug triage between business, dev, and test teams across all kinds of bugs.
• Drive and train team members to create and execute test cases (happy path, edge cases, negative, complex business scenarios) for REST or SOAP APIs.
• Train team members to write and execute complex SQL queries and commands.
• Lead internal team meetings and drive communication with clients.
• Actively participate in client meetings, project‑wide reviews of requirements, system architecture, and detailed design documents
• Manage and perform load and stress tests using enterprise‑level test automation tools.
• Manage, lead, and maintain physical, virtualized, and simulated test environments.

• 8+ years of hands‑on experience in developing and executing test scripts for REST or SOAP‑based APIs.
• 8+ years of experience in intercepting and mocking complex HTTP API calls in UI and API tests.

• 2+ years of experience in messaging systems (AMQ, WMQ or Kafka).
• 8+ years of experience in writing and guiding teams on complex end‑to‑end tests automation.
• 8+ years of experience on test management and defect tracking tools like Jira, Azure Dev Ops, Client ALM, etc.
• 8+ years of…