IT Test Lead
- Alight
- 10 - 14 years
- Noida, Gurugram
- 2 months ago
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Job Description
Our story
At Alight, we believe a companys success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to Be Alight.
Our Values:
Champion People be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.
Grow with purpose Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.
Be Alight act with integrity, be real and empower others.
Its why were so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our teams expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.
With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight. Learn more at careers.alight.com.
(RESPONSIBILITIES)
As a Test Lead, individual will have a chance to lead testing team across all key functional roles and responsibilities from planning, development, execution, and post-production checkouts. QA Lead will act as an essential link in the project development life cycle and will work closely with the Project Owner/Manager, QA Manager/Director, developers, Business Analysts, and other project team members.
The individual will be involved in the following critical activities:
- Lead a small team of QA Engineers to ensure timely delivery/ testing of user stories.
- Create and run functional, application, regression, ad-hoc, and integration tests, including both positive and negative scenarios.
- Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans.
- Perform integration and functional testing for code delivered by the development team during each sprint. Become a reference for the QA team for integrations and their configurations.
- Participate in sprint planning and story creation to identify items that will need to be resolved prior to testing.
- Collaborate with developers, business analysts and project management teams to develop, publish and implement software quality assurance plans along with appropriate KPIs.
- Design and implement test strategy and develop estimates.
- Provide technical leadership/supervision for the creation, design, execution, documentation and maintenance of test plans and test cases (automated and manual testing)
- Lead onshore and offshore testers to ensure testing deliverables are met.
- Follow standard QA methodologies to ensure the delivery of quality products.
- Log and report defects and escalate issues.
- Track QA metrics like defect densities and open defect counts
- Work to meet project schedules, timelines, and deadlines.
- Provide accurate estimates to assigned tasks.
- Must demonstrate an understanding of test automation frameworks and creating framework from scratch, if needed.
- Experience with Test Management tools
- Support business users in UAT activities for all major and minor releases.
- Support occasional weekend production validation work for all major releases.
- Strong attention to detail
- Proactive nature, with a strong work ethic and eagerness to take initiative and go the extra mile.
The ideal experience and critical competencies for the role include the following:
- 9-11 years of experience in software testing or related fields.
- 9+ years of hand on Quality Assurance experience with a key role in building and enhancing a QA function.
- Experience with product development and testing life cycles including test approach and test case reviews.
- Experience leading and providing oversite for multiple QA teams using agile or scrum methodologies.
- Experience creating and maintaining test suites and cases in Test Plans.
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA, Role Category: Quality Assurance and TestingRole: Automation Test EngineerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: AlightLocation(s): Noida, Gurugram
Keyskills: Automation Tools QA Testing Software Testing QA Automation
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