Strong collaboration skills. Works collaboratively with development during all stages of projects to provide in process testing results. Works directly with appropriate business partners and development to understand project concepts, objectives and approach of software development projects.
Strong communications, teamwork, and problem-solving skills are necessary. Ability to interact and communicate well with business partners and technology teams is required. Written and verbal communication skills must both be strong.
Mentoring QA staff.
Participate in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, load/performance and system testing. Defines scope and objectives of all levels of QA testing. Establishes the purpose and deliverables of the test effort. Develop and implement test plans/cases
Develop automated testing scripts for complex environments
Lead QA efforts for assigned project(s) including coordination of QA project team who test, evaluate and validate new functions and applications, and identify issues in software or services.
Define, develop and implement quality assurance practices and procedures, test plans and other QA assessments. Establish standards and best practices for the use within the Agile Scrum methodology. Define and track quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.
Manage defects and proactively identify risks to management
Able to work independently and in team environments.
Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills to provide detailed root cause analysis.
Required:
7+ years’ experience in Quality Assurance for highly complex projects related to Cloud or distributed platform, or mainframe batch applications.
Proven experience with black box and white box testing techniques and tools.
7+ years of experience in automating REST Services, Web Services, Micro-Services and data processes (extracting/loading).
7+ years’ of experience in complex data analysis and data calculations.
5+ years of experience in test automation tools.
2+ years of experience in C# or C++.
Developing with C#, Node.js, .net, JavaScript or Powershell.
Experience with Selenium, Selenium Grid, Protractor, HP Load Runner, Visual Studio or Parasoft SOATest.
Experience with Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, transfer or data delivery technologies.
Strong written and verbal communications, teamwork and problem-solving skills.
Experience supporting a Test-Driven Development culture by contributing to automated unit and integration tests.
Engage in testing as a part of the development cycle, thereby shortening the QA cycle, and increasing QA breadth and depth of knowledge of the Banking applications.
Ability to interact and communicate successfully with business partners and technology teams.
3+ years of experience with Agile Development Practices, Scrum and supporting apps: Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), Jira, and GIT.
Self-starter who can grasp difficult concepts and large architectures quickly and stay on top of new and emerging technologies.
Very strong multitasking skills will be required. Must be comfortable in a dynamic fast paced environment.
Good estimation skills, able to provide reasonable estimates for yourself and others.
Experience with Agile methodologies.
Ability to think outside the box and come up with creative solutions when tools don’t work.
Experience working with resources in different geographical locations and offshore vendors.