Lead Software Tester

Expectations from this role:

Ensuring adherence to test practices and process to improve test coverage, for the following:

• 1. Create Test Estimates and Schedules
• 2. Identify business processes, conduct risk analysis and ensure test coverage
• 3. Ensure adherence of processes and standards
• 4. Produce test results, defect reports, test logs and reports for evidence of testing
• 5. Publish RCA reports and preventive measures
• 6. Report progress of testing
• 7. Contribute for Revenue savings for client by suggesting alternate method
• 8. Quality of Deliverables

Create and Organise testing process based on project requirement and manage test activities within team, for the following

• 1. Test Estimates and Schedules-. Ensure Test Coverage
• 2. Produce test results, defect reports, test logs, and reports to evidence for testing
• 3. Publish RCA reports and preventive measures
• 4. Ensure Quality of Deliverables
• 5. Report project metrics and status
• 6. Ensure adherence of Engineering practices, processes and standards
• 7. Understand and contribute to test automation/performance testing
• 8. Work with Dev Ops team, when required; to understand testing framework and QA process for implementing continuous testing

Performance Areas:

Test Design, Development, Execution:

• Participate in review, walkthrough, demo and obtain sign off by stakeholder for Test Design
• Prepare Test summary report for modules/features
• Participate in review, walkthrough, demo and obtain sign off by stakeholder
• Prepare Test Summary Report for modules/features

Requirements Management:

• Analyse, Prioritize, Identify Gaps and create workflow diagrams based on Requirements/User stories
• Analyse, Prioritize, Identify Gaps; create workflow diagrams based on Requirements/User stories

Manage Project:

• Participate in Test management
• Participate in Test management
• Preparing, Tracking and Reporting of Test progress based on schedule

Domain relevance:

• Identify business processes, conduct risk analysis and ensure test coverage
• Identify business processes, conduct risk analysis and ensure test coverage

Estimate:

• Prepare Estimate, Schedule, Identify dependencies
• Prepare Estimate, Schedule, Identify dependencies
• Prepare estimates (time /effort) based on the requirements/User stories

Knowledge Management:

• Consume, Contribute, Review (Best Practices, Lesson learned, Retrospective)
• Consume, Contribute, Review (Best Practices, Lesson learned, Retrospective)

Test Design, Execution:

• Test Plan preparation, Test Case/Script Creation, Test Execution
• Test Plan preparation, Test Case/Script Creation, Test Execution

Risk Identification:

• Identification of risk/issues and prepare Mitigation and Contingency plans

Test & Defect Management:

• Conduct root cause and trend analysis of the defects
• Conduct root cause and trend analysis of the defects

Test Planning:

• Identify the test scenarios with understanding of systems, interfaces and application
• Identify end-to-end business critical scenarios with minimal support
• Create/Review the test scenarios and prepare RTM
• Identify the test scenarios with understanding of systems, interfaces and application
• Identify end-to-end business critical scenarios with less support Create and review the test scenarios and prepare RTM
• Identify scope of testing

Supporting Organization:

• Ensure utilization and quality of deliverables prepared by the team
• Co-ordinate Test Environment and Test Data provisioning

Client Management:

• Define KPIs to the engagement and ensure adherence to these KPIs.

Stakeholder Connect:

• Handle monthly/weekly governance calls and represent issues for the team

Skill Examples:

• 1. Ability to create and manage a test plan
• 2. Ability to prepare schedules based on estimates
• 3. Ability to track and report progress
• 4. Ability to identify test…