Description

• Strategy & Planning: Develop comprehensive test strategies, blueprints, and detailed test plans outlining objectives, scope, schedules, and resource allocation.
• Team Leadership & Coordination: Assign tasks, set priorities, guide/mentor engineers, and monitor daily execution.
• Test Design & Artifact Review: Collaborate on test scenarios and review test cases, scripts, and data to ensure quality and coverage.
• Defect & Risk Management: Track software bugs using tracking systems, coordinate with developers for rapid fixes, and assess quality risks.
• Stakeholder Reporting: Consolidate test results, analyze defect severity, and report progress, blockers, and metrics to managers or clients.
• Process & Automation Oversight: Select and maintain test automation frameworks, evaluate tools, and continuously improve testing workflows.

Responsibilities

1. Test Strategy and Planning

• Develop test strategies: Define the overall testing approach, objectives, scope, test levels, and required resources.
• Create test plans: Build structured blueprints detailing schedules, deliverables, and environment requirements.
• Provide estimations: Estimate the time, effort, and resources required for requirement analysis, test design, and execution.

2. Team Management and Coordination

• Assign tasks: Distribute work among testers based on their skill sets and project priorities.
• Mentor and guide: Provide technical support, coaching, and training to improve team productivity and morale.
• Monitor progress:



Track day-to-day testing activities to ensure alignment with project milestones.

3. Test Design and Review

• Review artifacts: Inspect test cases, scripts, and test data for quality, coverage, and consistency.
• Collaborate on scenarios: Help design comprehensive test scenarios covering functional and non-functional requirements.
• Manage automation: Select appropriate automation tools, oversee framework maintenance, and decide when to transition from manual to automated testing.

4. Defect and Quality Management

• Oversee defect tracking: Monitor bug-tracking systems to ensure critical defects are logged, prioritized, and assigned.
• Lead triage meetings: Coordinate with developers and product managers during defect review and triage sessions.
• Assess risks: Conduct risk assessments to evaluate the impact of releasing builds with known issues.

5. Reporting and Stakeholder Communication

• Consolidate status reports: Prepare and share regular progress, metric, and quality reports with project managers and clients.
• Track key metrics: Monitor metrics such as test coverage, pass/fail rates, bug escape rates, and execution time.
• Act as a liaison: Communicate blockers, resource constraints, and quality risks upward to management and downward to the team.

Qualifications

BE / MCA or Equivalent

Automation: Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Winium, TestNG, Cucumber
Programming: TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, SQL, VB.Net, VB6
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TeamCity, Maven
Tools: GitHub, GitLab, Browser Stack, JIRA, Postman, Hopscotch

📌 Senior Engineer (India)
🏢 Ford Motor
📍 India