Responsibilities

• Detailed test planning, allocation and monitoring project related work assigned to the team
• Understand and implement project scope within defined timelines
• Monitor and guide the team in project execution
• Responsible for adherence to relevant organizational processes
• Deliver onetime with expected quality standards
• Co-ordinate with test manager/onsite coordinator for issues resolution
• Conduct test design walk throughs and reviews
• Responsible for test traceability matrix (tracing the test-procedures to the test requirements)
• Hands on with test preparation and execution
• Ensure that test environment is available and setup correctly for test execution
• Ensure test data is available and setup correctly for test execution
• Identify potential risks and suggest mitigation plan
• Ensure that the test project documentation is complete and updated
• Responsible for status reporting and test metrics reporting
• Responsible for defect management
• Co-ordinate change management activities
• Co-ordinate defect prevention activities
• Implement test process improvements resulting from lessons learnt

Requirements

• More than 6 years of IT experience of which at least 1 year as a team leader
• Sound understanding of software development and software testing lifecycles
• Ability to plan tasks
• Ability to guide and manage teams effectively
• Familiar with test program concerns including test data management, trouble reporting and resolution, test design and test development
• Understands application business area and application requirements
• Functional expertise in the Banking area
• Experience in Payment domain
• Understanding of the relevant technology domains
• Expertise in software testing tools including test management tools and defect tracking tools like QC and JIRA
• Knowledge of automation tools is desirable especially on TOSCA and xFramework
• Experienced in AS400 (IBM iSeries) is welcome
• Flexible approach in dealing with people and situations
• High degree of interpersonal and communication skills