Sr Information Technology Quality Assurance Analyst, Assurant-GCC, India
As a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, you will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality enterprise solutions. Your responsibilities include analyzing user stories, crafting and executing test cases, and documenting defects across applications, services, and software components. You will actively share your expertise with team members, fostering a strong QA mindset and promoting best practices in quality assurance.
You will also be accountable for developing, executing, and troubleshooting automation test cases, while continuously enhancing the automation framework to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the test suite. Additionally, you will support the QA Lead by providing leadership, technical guidance, and mentorship to both onshore and offshore QA teams within your domain.
This position will be in Hyderabad at our India location.
QA Activities
- Active participation in elaborations
- Design and develop test approach / strategy for user stories and bugs
- Design and develop test scenarios and test cases
- Write SQL queries for test data set up
- Write SQL queries to validate test results
- Collaborate with POs and BAs to understand feature and story conditions of acceptance and gain sign-off of written test cases
- Perform test execution and lead the defect management process
- Re-test resolved defects by re-testing the original test case and related functionality
- Conduct demos
- Participate and conduct non functional testing (security, performance, load, stress, multitenancy, DR etc)
- Clearly document system defects with repeatable steps to reproduce
- Work with automation team members identify automation scope
- Contribute to automated script development and increased automation
- Identify, coordinate and perform end to end test execution with upstream and downstream domains
- Coordinate with off-shore QA team members to hand-off work as needed, may require off-hours calls
- Demo completed features and stories to POs and business
- Assist in Regression, integration, smoke, platform testing.
- Write automated test cases.
- Execute Automated test cases.
Support to QA Lead Activities
Assist QA Lead in testing experience throughout the software lifecycle including managing test cases, defects, metrics, and status reportingAssist QA lead by providing timely feedback of QA team members for performance issues.Coordinate on-shore and off-shore QA activities, which may require off-hours callsAssist Track defect status and priority to ensure re-testing occurs in a timely mannerAssist QA lead and team in Design and develop test approach / strategy for non-functional testing.Understand how test automation can be leveraged to improve overall quality and speed of regression testing and to reduce riskWork with release management tools to understand when expected code will be delivered to a test environmentContribute to QA process improvement initiativesWork closely with other domain QA taems to ensure proper integration testing is exercisedReport on progress in daily scrum stand-ups, raising issues, risks and blocks quicklyActively participate in sprint retrospectives to improve team, agile and QA processesEnsure traceability throughout the QA processCollaborate with agile team in planning, estimating and committing to sprint QA activitiesPlan and review strategies to test features and stories with teamCreate, estimate and update QA tasks during the sprintWhat are the requirements needed for this position?
5+ years of technical and quality leadership testing enterprise level software5+ years of experience developing test plans and test strategies for enterprise level softwareExperience in Automation Testing + Functional Testing.Experience with Agile development methodologiesAbility to work in a large, matrix environmentStrong attention to detail and focus on root-cause analysisStrong analytical, problem solving and conflict resolution skillsStrong interpersonal and communication skills demonstrated through past experience and resultsAbility to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writingSkilled at leading meetings and making presentationsA great attitudeWhat other are the Preferred Experience, Skills, and Knowledge?
Experience writing SQL queriesExperience testing Data Migration, Data Quality, and ETLExperience testing web technologiesExperience testing WCF and REST services within a Service Oriented ArchitectureFamiliarity with Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Test ManagerFamiliarity with the insurance industryFamiliar with JMeter and LoadRunner.