Software Test Lead

Primary Objectives

• Support clarity of testing requirements and assist Test Manager in overall test management activities.
• Coordinate test data preparation, defect triage, and track defects through to closure.
• Develop and provide daily/weekly test progress and operational status reports to stakeholders.
• Facilitate communication between project teams and ensure compliance with test processes, standards, and tools (JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr).
• Collaborate with IT and project managers to identify risks, resolve environment issues, and maintain quality of testing deliverables.

Qualifications

• At least 7 - 9 years of working experience in Banking/Financial Institution environment including 5 years in a lead or management position in areas relevant to testing and possesses business acumen and test planning abilities
• At least 5-8 years of experience in leading large IT program teams in Enterprise Systems related domains in testing areas
• Has experience to lead and manage a team of Testers
• Has experience in a wide variety of testing efforts, techniques, and testing tools for functional and non-functional
• ISTQB - CTFL Certification is mandatory
• Mandatory knowledge on Jira and Confluence
• Familiar with STLC
• Experience working in Waterfall and Agile project
• Expected to be available to work extended hours, when necessary, to support critical delivery timelines and ensure timely completion of project deliverables

Job Description

• Support getting the clarity on testing requirements
• Provide support during testing escalations
• Assist in Test Manager in Test Management activities
• Coordinate Test Data preparation
• Develop daily/weekly test progress report
• Facilitate in defect triage meetings, classification of defects and track defects until closure.
• Facilitate communication between different stakeholder teams of project.
• Work closely with Project Manager/ Test Manager in identifying the potential risks and challenges
• Ensure quality of deliverables by review all the Testing Artifacts
• Provide operational / day to day status reports to Test Manager, ITPM, Business PM
• Ensure compliance to the mandated test processes, standards, and methodologies
• Interacting with IT team for resolving environment related issues and any support requirements
• Ensure accurate and timely update of Defect information and defect status in defect tracking tool (JIRA)
• Provide guidance to project team to use JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr as bank's test management tool