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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts.
• Demonstrate increasing expertise in application domain and functional areas
• Ability to take ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members.
• Apply various testing types and methodologies effectively during SDLC
• Take ownership of small tasks and deliver without supervision while using their discretion to seek help when necessary, while mentoring and helping team members.
• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques
• Work independently and delivers testing and use case creation which meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
• Write effective tests according to best practices so that crucial functional requirements are verified and tests remain valid when code is refactored
• Collaborate with development team in bugs fixing and build plans
• Collaborate with Quality Leaders in creating test plans
• Implement and configures testing tools and at times help other staff
• Implement system-level integration testing
• Skilled in core data structures and algorithms
• Skilled in test automation, including the design, creation and execution of re-usable automated tests.
• Skilled in applicable programming languages and technologies as required to deliver test automation.
• Define quality metrics, best practices, quality strategies and provides expertise on quality control
• Promote transparency by proactively sharing design choices with appropriate audiences, with the appropriate level of detail and timeliness.

Education Qualification

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with basic experience.

Desired Characteristics and Technical expertise

• Demonstrates increasing expertise in application domain and functional areas.
• Applies various testing types and methodologies effectively during SDLC.
• Takes ownership of tasks and deliver without supervision while using their discretion to seek help when necessary.
• Applies principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product, Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques.
• Writes effective tests according to best practices so that crucial functional requirements are verified, and tests remain valid when code is refactored.
• Collaborates with development team in defect fixing and build plans.
• Collaborates with Quality Leaders in creating test plans.
• Implements and configures testing tools.
• Implements system-level integration testing.
• Expertise in building new automation frameworks and understanding existing frameworks
• Experience on QA tools like Selenium, JMeter, Load Runner, Silk Test, QTP(UFT), Test Complete, Watir, Cucumber etc.
• Hands on experience on JAVA, C++ , C# and Web technologies are desirable, able to write API test frameworks.

Business acumen:

• Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry trends
• Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices
• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems
• Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts
• Dedication to implementing functionality with quality
• Strong problem solving abilities
• High energy, results driven person with strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with more senior co-workers and leadership with confidence and clarity

Leadership:

• Ability to takes ownership of small and medium sized tasks and deliver while mentoring and helping team members
• Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale. Able to speak to mutual needs and win-win solutions. Uses two-way communication to influence outcomes and ongoing results
• Identifies mis-alignments with goals, objectives, and work direction against the organizational strategy. Makes suggestions to course correct
• Continuously measures deliverable of self and team against scheduled commitments. Effectively balances different, competing objectives

Personal Attributes:

• Demonstrates the ability to help team members
• Seeks to understand problems thoroughly before implementing solutions. Asks questions to clarify requirements when ambiguities are present
• Identifies opportunities for innovation and offers new ideas. Takes the initiative to experiment with new software frameworks
• Adapts to new environments and changing requirements. Pivots quickly as needed. When coached, responds to need & seeks info from other sources
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Highly self-motivated with positive attitude
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Effective team building and problem solving abilities
• Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks. Pushes self and others for results.

Note

This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.

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