Overview-

• Develop and manual as well as automated tests in order to ensure software product quality.
• Estimating, planning, and coordinating testing activities.
• Ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved.
• The ability to quickly assess risk, lead a team to a decision point and ensure plans are executed are critical skills required to perform this role.
• This is a very hands-on, highly interactive role in a fast-paced, ever-changing production environment.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the Sprint planning and product-grooming meetings to understand, analyze and influence the application/service/system to be tested.
• Identify the risks and appropriate test coverage to validate new features as well as regression, and develop test plans and cases.
• Come up with systems and processes to increase efficiency and identify the area of testing that can be automated.
• Execute test cases, manually or in an automated fashion, capture and analyze the results, document issues and prepare test reports.
• Present testing results and progress to the management team
• Use Test Management tools to create, maintain, track and execute test cases; as well as use Defect Tracking tools.
• Analyze and identify the issues found during testing, either work with the Development teams and/or the Product management teams to diagnose them.
• Understand the business aspects, as well as the ways the customers are using the system; and check if the system is performing as it should have been
• Take over a Test Activity and feature/s lead; including planning, executing, communicating, tracking, and reporting.
• Leading activity and test project capabilities include Planning, designing, preparing, and executing the tests.
• Manage a team of QA engineers.
• Lead standup meetings with QA team
• Promote a spirit of collaboration across teams and individuals.