Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

Job Purpose:

• Performing quality reviews on business requirements, developing standardized testing methods and strategies, leading execution of functional and non-functional tests and implementing quality testing and reporting processes to track and ensure adherence to quality software development process and products. The person will be responsible for developing standardized testing methods and strategies, leading execution of functional and non-functional tests for T24 Core Banking system functionalities and integrations.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Works with project team to define and create overall project test strategy/test plan, plan test schedules or strategies and Identifies test resources, estimates test effort in accordance with project scope or delivery dates and ensures that the test strategy is achieved.
• Develop, document, and maintain manual and automated functional testcases, non-functional test cases, test scripts and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Works collaboratively with the business units and project teams to execute and validate test cases based upon business requirements and ensures that the test cases are traceable to the requirements.
• In collaboration with Enterprise Architecture teams and other critical stakeholders, tune the SQA processes, adopt tools and define re-usable templates in-line with the adoption and maturity of the Quality Assurance Framework.
• Define test process including required test activities and deliverables, conduct Test Readiness Assessment, establish test beds, and ensure that test beds are available for all planned whitebox and blackbox testing activities.
• Engages, champions, and collaborates with technical teams / personnel in non-functional testing including integration, regression, load, performance, security, and usability testing.
• Prepare, share, and review test results periodically, report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws and develop test acceptance reports for projects and software changes.
• Works with business units to perform post deployment sanity and regression tests and post-implementation reviews within defined period to confirm that the deployed solution works as per the business requirements.
• Participates in formulation and Implementation of Software process improvement policies and strategies for IT division.
• Participate business requirements reviews across functional teams and ensures that the business requirements are complete, precise, and testable.

Qualifications:

• Atleast 5 to 8 years of relevant work experience as Senior Quality Assurance Specialist or Business Analyst in Tax in a similar role
• Atleast 5 to 8 years of relevant work experience in Quality Assurance
• Atleast 5 to 8 years of relevant work experience in T24 Projects and testing of T24 core,
• products, and integrations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) /Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality) is required.
• ITIL Foundation, PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is added advantage.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration or Project Management is added advantage
• Experience in T24 Applications Maintenance & Support is added advantage.
• Experience in Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc) is added advantage
• Previous experience with Arrangement Architecture (Accounts, Deposits, Lending), Funds Transfer, Payments (TPH), Teller, FX, Money Market, Loans and Deposit, Securities, Trade Finance, SWIFT, reporting (advice and statement)
• Have prior knowledge of banking products and understanding of T24 configurations
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, techniques, tools, and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both whitebox and blackbox testing
• Hands-on experience with testing automation and automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Experience with non-functional testing - performance and/or security testing
• Good experience with SOA integration architecture, with understanding of ESB topologies.
• Good understanding of UML.
• Working experience in reviewing quality specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Working experience in estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating quality testing activities
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
• Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilitie 

Technical Skills Required (Mandatory):

• Atleast 5 to 8 years of relevant work experience in Quality Assurance
• Atleast 5 to 8 years of relevant work experience in T24 Projects and testing of T24 core,
• products, and integrations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study
• ISTQB / ISTQB Agile Tester Certification / Certified Test Engineer (CSTE) /Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) / Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST) / CMSQ (Certified Manager of Software Quality) is required.
• ITIL Foundation, PRINCE II (Practitioner) / AgilePM / PMI-ACP / Certified Agile Project Manager (IAPM) / Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is added advantage.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration or Project Management is added advantage
• Experience in T24 Applications Maintenance & Support is added advantage.
• Experience in Emerging Technologies (e.g. Mobile, Internet Banking, Cloud, Microservices etc) is added advantage
• Previous experience with Arrangement Architecture (Accounts, Deposits, Lending), Funds Transfer, Payments (TPH), Teller, FX, Money Market, Loans and Deposit, Securities, Trade Finance, SWIFT, reporting (advice and statement)
• Have prior knowledge of banking products and understanding of T24 configurations
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, techniques, tools, and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both whitebox and blackbox testing
• Hands-on experience with testing automation and automated testing tools
• Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Experience with non-functional testing - performance and/or security testing
• Good experience with SOA integration architecture, with understanding of ESB topologies.
• Good understanding of UML.
• Working experience in reviewing quality specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Working experience in estimating, prioritizing, planning, and coordinating quality testing activities

Note:

• This is a 1 Year renewable contract role (contract can be extended/renewed further based on your performance). Kindly don't apply if you are looking for a part-time, freelancing, and moonlighting jobs.