Role description
Role Proficiency:
Create and Organise testing process based on project requirement and manage test activities within team
Outcomes:
- Test Estimates and Schedules-. Ensure Test Coverage
- Produce test results defect reports test logs and reports to evidence for testing
- Publish RCA reports and preventive measures
- Ensure Quality of Deliverables
- Report project metrics and status
- Ensure adherence of Engineering practices processes and standards
- Understand and contribute to test automation/performance testing
- Work with DevOps team when required; to understand testing framework and QA process for implementing continuous testing
- Manage team utilization
Measures of Outcomes:
- Test Script Creation and Execution Productivity
- Defect Leakage Metrics (% of defect leaked % of UAT defects and % of Production defects)
- % of Test case reuse
- Test execution Coverage
- Defect Acceptance Ratio
- Test Review efficiency
- On-time delivery Effort Variance
- Test Automation Coverage
Outputs Expected:
Supporting Organization:
- Ensure utilization and quality of deliverables prepared by the team
- Co-ordinate Test Environment and Test Data provisioning
Test Design
Development
Execution:
- Participate in review
walkthrough
demo and obtain sign off by stakeholder
- Prepare Test Summary Report for modules/features
Requirements Management:
- Analyse
Prioritize
Identify Gaps; create workflow diagrams based on Requirements/User stories
Manage Project:
- Participate in Test management
- Preparing
Tracking and Reporting of Test progress based on schedule
Domain relevance:
- Identify business processes
conduct risk analysis and ensure test coverage
Estimate:
- Prepare Estimate
Schedule
Identify dependencies
Knowledge Management:
- Consume
Contribute
Review (Best Practices
Lesson learned
Retrospective)
Test Design
Execution:
- Test Plan preparation
Test Case/Script Creation
Test Execution
Risk Identification:
- Identification of risk/issues and prepare Mitigation and Contingency plans
Test & Defect Management:
- Conduct root cause and trend analysis of the defects
Test Planning:
- Identify the test scenarios with understanding of systems
interfaces and application
- Identify end-to-end business critical scenarios with less support Create and review the test scenarios and prepare RTM
- Prepare estimates (time /effort) based on the requirements/User stories
- Identify scope of testing
Client Management:
- Define KPIs to the engagement and ensure adherence to these KPIs.
Stakeholder Connect:
- Handle monthly/weekly governance calls and represent issues for the team
Skill Examples:
- Ability to Create Review and manage a test plan
- Ability to prepare schedules based on estimates
- Ability to track report progress and take corrective measures on need basis
- Ability to identify test scenarios and prepare RTM
- Ability to analyze requirement/user stories and prioritize testing
- Ability to carry out RCA
- Ability to capture and report metrics
- Ability to identify Test Data and Test Env. Specifications
Knowledge Examples:
- Knowledge of Estimation techniques
- Knowledge of Testing standards
- Knowledge of identifying the scope of testing
- Knowledge of RCA Techniques
- Knowledge of Test design techniques
- Knowledge of Test methodologies
- Knowledge of scope identification and planning
- Knowledge of Test automation tools and frameworks
Additional Comments:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field - Develop and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts to validate the functionality, performance, and reliability of mainframe applications built using COBOL, CICS, DB2 and JCL - Minimum of 5 years of experience in software quality assurance, with a focus on mainframe applications and cost basis systems along with test automation - Review test cases and test scripts of other QA testers to ensure adherence to best practices and standards for all the work done - Perform regression testing to make sure no new defects are introduced in the release - Automate testing of new functionality using Automation Framework - Work experience in QA includes – Work on Test cases, XML, understanding of models and loading the data, setup the QA/UAT environments - Experience in testing cost basis applications and conducting cost analysis to support testing activities - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality results
Skills
COBOL,CICS,JCL
