Job Description

Job Purpose:

To ensure delivery of reliable, secure, and high‑quality software by leading test strategy and automation, driving CI/CD integration, and strengthening collaboration across global teams to achieve impactful results.

As per company policy, this role requires presence in the office 4 days per week.

Duties:

- Test Strategy: Develop a robust test strategy. Guide and drive senior engineers to develop and execute comprehensive test cases that align with test strategy driven by the project requirements, ensuring thorough testing of software functional, non-fucntional and security requirements. Communicate the strategy to get the consensus from the stakeholder and provide an understanding to the executors.
- Automation Strategy : Design, architect and deliver a robust automation strategy to test the product with the required coverage and within the acceptable cycle time. Communicate the strategy to get the consensus from the stakeholder and provide an understanding to the executors. Contribute to the development and maintenance of automated test scripts and frameworks. Guide in enhancing test automation coverage for both system-level and front-end applications.
- Issue Identification & Documentation: Identify, track, and document software defects, functionality issues, and performance problems, working closely with developers to reproduce, debug, and resolve issues.
- Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product owners, and senior testers, to ensure alignment on testing goals and priorities. Communicate findings and progress effectively.
- Test Reporting & Metrics:



Contribute to the preparation of test reports and define-track-monitor-analyze key testing metrics to assess test coverage, defect resolution, and overall testing progress.
- Support in Test Planning: Provide inputs to test planning activities, contributing to discussions about scope, approach, and strategy for different types of testing, such as functional, regression, and integration testing.
- Version Control & Configuration Management: Utilize version control systems (e.g., Git, Subversion) for maintaining test scripts, test cases, and related artifacts.
- CI/CD Integration: Define and implement the CI/CD strategy helping in integrating test scripts into Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure that automated tests are executed as part of the development process.
- Verification: As an expert, conduct manual testing where required, especially in areas that are difficult to automate or require more exploratory testing to identify edge cases.
- Innovation and Lean Initiatives: Identify the innovation opportunities, ideas and improvements in the test group to drive large-scale test and automation transformations.
- Continuous Improvement: Have a keen eye on the processes and practices in the test group and provide feedback on testing processes and practices, suggesting improvements and applying lessons learned from past testing cycles to enhance efficiency and test effectiveness.
- Mentoring and Coaching: Mentor and coach the engineers by helping them with problem statements on the job which help in the overall upskilling of the team and increases the multifaceted nature of the engineers leading to enhanced quality and there by the customer experience.

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