FASTTEK GLOBALpowered by Fast Switch - Great Lakes
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Software Testing Specialist #1036730Job Description:
- Employees in this job function are responsible for defining and implementing software test procedures, planning, designing, executing and optimizing software tests and automation scripts.
- They are also responsible for incident triage, reproducing and reporting defects from bug hunt activities or customer reports, and documenting test cases and scenarios.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and implement software test strategy, guidelines, policies and processes in line with organization vision, industry regulations and market best practices
- Define advanced test concepts, theories, and principles for highly complex technology and business situations
- Plan, design and execute repeatable tests cases and automation scripts for various software and applications
- Leverage test management tools for test planning, development, execution, monitoring and reporting
- Monitor, triage and escalate incidents related to software products maintained by development teams in line with the organization's incident management processes
- Conduct and manage root cause analysis for production incidents and embed preventive actions in the form of automated unit and integration tests
- Continuously study, optimize and automate software test methods and tools and automation scripts
Skills Required:
- Test Automation
Experience Required:
- Specialist Exp: 5+ years in IT; 3 years in testing
Experience Preferred:
- Advanced experience with Requirements Engineering, and development Types and Strategies.
- Advanced experience on Functional Architecture, or Software Architecture.
- Effectively uses software configuration management (source control, DevSecOps, CI/CD, etc.).
- Proven experience with: o Java Full stack development (Springboot, Microservices, React) o Persistence - Buckets, PostgreSQL Bigtable
- Work effectively on an agile team following agile practices with Internal SW Development groups as well as Tier I&II (external suppliers)
- Cloud technologies experience (such as GCP, AWS, Azure).
- Experience with software operations (DevSecOps, SRE, observability, support/maintenance, etc.).
- Experience in secure coding practices and modern software development methodology, such as pair programming, test-first/test-driven development OR demonstrated delivery of singular focus programming.
- Proficient with Automation tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, REST Assured.
Education Required:
- Bachelor's Degree
Additional Information :
- Ability to design and execute test methods and automation scripts for requirements verification purposes, at multiple integration / solution levels.
- Leads incidents triage, performs root cause analysis and contributes with Preventive Actions design.
- Uses Test Management tools for test planning review, execution, monitoring review (proficient key metrics interpretation) and reporting of Test Results.
- Uses defect management tools for defect creation, and monitoring of resolution.
- Fully understands and applies Standards and tools for pipeline development.
- Follows code artisanship best practices, quality and security standards; and contributes to the improvement of them. · Understands and applies industry Software Quality Assurance standards (ASPICE, ISTQB, ASAM, INCOSE, etc.)
- Often provides professional advice on technical or procedural issues.
- Creates initial reports/analysis for review by team members; provides feedback on draft reports/analysis for further improvement and may deliver final report.
- Demonstrates professional communication style in team, cross team and partner settings, and effectively identifies and adapts communications for different audiences; provides feedback to newer team members on communication style.
- Communicates effectively with peer-to-peer interactions and with 2 levels above (+2 rule). ·
- Demonstrates strong relationships within team through knowledge of problem domain.
- Starts to identify patterns of interactions with others that may help or hinder team success.
- Direct contribution via own work as well as team level contributions through mentoring.