Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Role and responsibilities :

Role Definition :

The role will be responsible for complete testing activities – designing test scenarios, test cases, reporting defects and follow up until closure. Interact with other teams and be good team player in all the project related activities from QA perspective.

Core Responsibilities :

• Ability to create test cases, execute them & mentor juniors / intermediates in the team in creation of test cases to ensure a complete coverage of the task at all levels
• Assume responsibilities of a task leader and work closely with Project lead to plan the task for the day and assign sub tasks to team members
• Ability to create & execute test plans & test scenarios for the assigned project & be actively involved within the team for task execution as a task lead / feature owner
• Complete assigned tasks with the expected level of quality in time & support juniors and intermediates to complete the task on time with quality
• Ability to review assigned feature of the game, to analyze and find all bugs
• Fluent with bug reporting, regression process, bug database management and ensure timely regression of issues for himself / herself and the team
• Need to keep himself / herself updated with the project issues and track issues of the team to have them fixed
• Maintain QC & Project Standards for bug writing, ensures the same is done by others in the team
• Proactively raise alarms when he / she comes across a major issue and communicate it to Lead / PM with a list of issues / concerns
• Guides & helps juniors within the team to optimize their work practices and work towards being efficient
• Maintain a feature effort tracker for the team and optimize the test results accordingly with the support of leads
• Keep a track of the progress of tests through the day and ensure that all deliverables meet the deadlines without any compromise on quality
• Takes ownership / responsibility of the team in absence of Leads
• Involved in QC / Project Training as a Trainer for onboarding new joiners, also contribute towards the training program with suggestions and content
• Create the training content for the team by collecting relevant information, creating a framework around it and suggest the training needs required for the team members to team managers
• Ability to identify training needs from Dev. QC and work along with the manager to setup the same for the team
• Use experience to share best practices within the team and avoid mistakes from previous projects
• Escalate issues regarding the team's motivation / working / bonding / conflicts to the team lead, suggest viable actions and work towards having a positive environment in the team
• Acquainted with different tests for video games (Compliance, Compatibility, Special Tests, etc.)
• Complete awareness of the gaming industry (market leaders, upcoming lineup of games, current gaming trends, end user tendencies, etc.)
• Look for the available tools which were already developed and how we could efficiently use them on current project with minor changes and additions.
• Aware of the current projects competitors and updated with user feedback from relevant forums
• Actively initiate transversal activities and contributes to existing activities within the team
• Awareness on QC / Project vision & supporting pillars

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