Quality Assurance Testing Specialist

Requisition ID: 264074

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QA Test Specialist

Quality Assurance Testing Specialist is responsible for leveraging testing methodologies and practices, analyze requirements/stories, design testing strategies, coordinate across multiple streams and applications, work with Agile teams to develop testing and automation solutions.

As an active collaborator across different project teams, the incumbent is responsible for leading standups, discussions & retrospectives from QA perspective and is expected to use testing best practices to evolve the product solution and ensure working products are delivered seamlessly with quality and within budget and timelines.

Accountability

• Conducts and adjusts testing methods and practices to assess and evolve product
• Design test approach, Develop Test Strategies and Plans
• Select appropriate test tools
• Align test cases to requirements and user stories
• In conjunction with the development team, collaborate, design and build automated and manual tests, develop/create test data, construct and execute exploratory, system, regression, migration, back-end, and user acceptance tests, and determine whether to create any complex environments or any major improvements for the automation frameworks
• Write clear and concise defect reports and work as an empathetic advocate for the customer’s quality experience
• Triage and prioritize defects for remediation, with the Product Owner and development team
• Conduct exploratory testing to find bugs that other testing means would not find during every sprint and drive testing workshops
• Wherever possible, conduct functional test and ensure their readability (clear, succinct, and using common business jargon) as well as tests must be maintainable (built with reusable domain specific testing language components)

Working Knowledge

• Automation frameworks, automating test scenarios

- Selenium

- testNG

- any one of behaviour driven development (BDD) or Test-driven development (TDD frameworks like Cucumber)

• Thorough experience with data extraction, transformations and conversion testing
• Ability to produce dashboards and reports for sprints or code releases

- Reporting frameworks like Allure, Extent reports

• Analyze industry best practices to recommend improvements to methodology, test environments and workflow to promote an efficient and cost-effective UAT process
• Collaborate actively with the development team, Product Owners, B/As
• Embed with development teams and infuse quality in every phase of the software development lifecycle by providing continuous feedback from QA standpoint regarding standards, user experience, possible performance issues, and future bugs
• Participate in product design and requirements analysis, work with the team during project planning to accurately estimate work (data creation, test cases/acceptance test design, test execution, framework design/improvements, scripting)