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Job description

Role Description

Reporting to the Manager – Non-Functional Testing, the position holder will execute the strategy and frameworks in Software non-functional testing and ensure solutions delivered to the customers meet the required standards for quality. He/ she is responsible for ensuring that products delivered to production are stable and security-proof to guarantee availability.

Role Responsibilities

• Test planning, design, execution of non-functional testing (performance, load, stress, usability testing), result analysis and reporting.
• Adopt creativity to achieve higher levels of competency and efficiency through adoption of fit for future technologies.
• Execute non functional testing within the planned schedules to ensure ontime delivery of products
• Responsible for planning, monitoring and implementing controls in non fuctional testing activities
• Define suitable metrics for measuring nonfunctional test progress and evaluation of the quality of the testing process and products
• Responsible for implementation and management of fully functional test environments ensuring stability of all test environments including subsequent upgrades and modernizations on these environments
• Accountable for maintenance of tools for non-functional testing (load and performance, security, usability etc)
• E2E Accountability for GDR testing and ensuring working business continuity plans are in place for all solutions
• Lead programs to measure, analyze, monitor, manage, and optimize performance and scalability of our current applications and systems.
• Responsible for reviewing, reporting and making data driven decisions around performance issues or bottlenecks.
• Review uncovered application bottlenecks and facilitate resolution with development, Infrastructure and security teams to ensure no defects in regards to quality attributes escape to production

Requirement

• Bachelor of Science Computer Science, IT, Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject
• 3 years + experience in software design, development or non-functional testing in a busy IT environment
• Experience in at least one programming language
• Experience in use of performance and other non-functional testing automated tools - Load runner, J-meter etc
• Hands-on QA experience with proven analytical and testing skills - Experience in developing test strategies, test plans, test scenarios and test cases
• Knowledge of automated testing frameworks
• Experience with metric gathering, report generation and analysis of testing results
• Ability to show creativity and initiative to improve solution test coverage and effectiveness
• Strong risk identification, assessment and mitigation planning skills
• Motivated self-starter, with a high capacity for rapid learning and meticulous attention to detail
• ISTQB Certification is a plus

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Job description

Role Description

Reporting to the QA- Functional Testing Lead, the position holder will be responsible for implementing governance around quality assurance processes, set up quality gates and assessing the maturity of QA organization. He /she will also enforce adherence to QA processes with constant assessment and reporting.

He / she will also be accountable for implementation of test environment management strategy and ensure availability of test environments. He / she is also accountable for test resources management and ensuring that these are available within stipulated timelines and SLAs

Role Responsibilities

• Implement and lead quality assurance center of excellence
• Responsible for defining testing schedules, policies and enforce adherence
• Adopt creativity to achieve higher levels of competency and efficiency through adoption of fit for future technologies.
• Accountable for implementation and management of fully functional test environments for all IT systems ensuring stability of all test environments including subsequent upgrades and modernizations on these environments
• Accountable for administration and maintenance of test management tools (e.g ALM); ensuring proper use of all test tools
• Define suitable metrics for measuring the quality of executing QA processes and validation of quality of all releases and reporting
• Accountable for setting up quality gates and ensuring that all products & solutions are comprehensively checked and passed through all the gates before go-live
• Accountability for test resources management including building of tools to manage the test resources and build a process around the management of test resources
• Test data management automation and ensure test data availability within stipulated timelines

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Development or related subject
• 3 years + experience in quality assurance in a busy IT environment
• At least 2 years in system administration
• Experience in any programming language e.g java, python, groovy etc
• Strong understanding of maturity models for quality assurance
• Experience with analysis and report generation and presentation
• ISTQB Certification is a plus