Has working experience and advanced and specialized technical / functional knowledge in own discipline. Understands how own area contributes to the business. Acts as a reference for colleagues with less experience and supports junior team members.?
- Influences decisions related to own activity, anticipating dependencies and consequences in complex scenarios, contributes to transversal projects, proposes improvements to processes and is accountable for own and team commitments.?
- Works independently within plan dictated by manager, with some guidance on most complex situations.
Specific accountabilities :
Test strategy
Attend to specification / architecture reviews (also on customer specification reviews when applicable), and provide feedback along with any potential impact, risk, issue or missed gap based on experienceDefine test strategy and test plan containing test cases (functional and non-functional), ensure traceability with specifications and customer requirementsEnsure compliance of test strategy with CI / CD guidelines, Green IT guidelines and all quality guidelines (SDL, STDL), QA best practices / standards from the industry (ISTQB..)Test expertise
Design test cases and write test case scriptsPrepare test environment, test data, and execute test casesProvide sign-off (go / no-go) on tested features based on defined exit criteriaContinuously assess the need to add / update / remove test cases to existing regression and CI / CD pipeline when new product features are delivered and based on metrics (stabilization, deletion of flaky tests...)As part of maintenance activities, investigate PTRs, test the fixes, and enrich test suites accordinglyTest automation
Assess necessity to automate subset of (or all) test scriptsUse test automation framework and contribute to its improvementDefect management
Open defects for software or documentation, assign relevant level of severity based on the importance of the issue, provide relevant investigation and information in order to fix defectsCheck defect fix, and give go / no-go for the load of production defectsReporting
Report and communicate on test activities to the line organization, software developers and product definitions analystsProvide visibility on testing campaign / milestones to all stakeholders