Qualification:

Bachelors /Masters in Computer Science or equivalent and 15+ years of experience in leading test engineering teams. Experience of product development is a big plus. Candidates for this position will have to have extensive experience in (BFSI/SaaS, wealth) domains, development and quality assurance with demonstrated ability to succeed.

Role Description:

This role will have high visibility across the company with an opportunity to work across multiple internal stakeholders.He/She will be responsible for working closely with architects and the development/ QA leaders to define, plan and execute customer scenario based testing and test automation strategy.

Responsibilities include :

- Deliver high quality products in a predictable manner

- Provide leadership and direction for software quality assurance QA personnel to provide support on all software engineering developments

- Being a high-energy leader able to delegate and mentor effectively, yet roll up their sleeves when required to achieve results and/or demonstrate effective behavior

- Deliver a unique, world-class customer experience through incredible quality

- Identify bottlenecks and pain points and directs efforts to address the challenges in a data-driven manner

- Challenge the status quo to generate new ideas, is open to challenges, and implements unique solutions; focuses on the best outcome for the company

- Develops proposals to improve reliability, product quality and developmental cycle time and supports continuous improvements to ensure that customer needs/requirements are adequately translated into product requirements.

- Establish and improve the reliability and test organization which will define, train, enforce and execute standards and compliance, results-based key performance indicators (KPI- s), root cause analysis and defect prevention techniques, testing tool standards and reports, and QA knowledge management and training.

- Creates a Testing Architecture discipline and resources to lead test strategy development for enterprise and complex systems, defines test environment and test data requirements, and develops and executes a global reliability and test strategy.

- Collaborates to establish release criteria with QA and software engineering development leaders and teams.

- Supports optimization of new and current designs for improved reliability through analysis of field issues and design changes as necessary.

- Evangelize QA and be highly visible as the champion of QA to both internal and external stakeholders.

- Demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies and supporting techniques.

- Experience with software automation tools

Skills:

- Expert knowledge of Object Oriented Design, Java Technologies, Web Services (SOAP, REST), Selenium Webdriver, Maven and TestNG.

- BFSI and SaaS working experience highly desirable

- Expertise in Platform (Rest/SOAP), UX, UI and ADA testing. Comfortable programming in JAVA/Python/Perl

- Demonstrable excellence in innovation, problem solving, analytical skills, data structures and design patterns.

- Experience in refactoring and re-engineering of large enterprise systems and good understanding of functional aspects

- Experience with unit testing framework and automation

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