Test Lead

Project description

Test Lead for a leading Digital Bank as part of Core Banking Transformation.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities and tasks.
• Actively participate in workshops, specification reviews, and technical reviews.
• Implement testing as per Test Strategy and provide inputs to Test Strategy.
• Create Test Plan, derive project-specific estimates.
• Plan and coordinate test activities/deliverables in accordance with test schedule.
• Facilitate the daily scrum and sprint initiatives.
• Communicate with stakeholders & provide Test Reports.
• Raise & manage project-specific risks and issues.
• Measure the quality of work & asses team members' work.
• Capture traceability metrics (requirements, test cases, test execution, defects).
• Build team & necessary documentation to enable mentoring of new members.
• Report upon testing activities, including Test Summary Reports
• Review testing entry/exit criteria
• Identify test environment requirements
• Coordinate shakedown testing for project test environments.
• Management of test data requirements

SKILLS

Must have

• 10+ years of experience in quality assurance
• 5+ years of experience as a Test Lead
• Strong experience in testing of Core Banking mainframe systems and testing banking Mortgages - Loan serving, end to end loan processing
• Participating in preparation of quality assessments, reports, and metrics formulating go-no go statement based on reports and metrics, test progress and defect status
• Presenting test improvements and developments in daily progress meetings including planned vs actuals.
• Acting as the main liaison communicating between the team the rest of the internal and external organization
• Lead execution of planned test cases, ensuring that all test results are correctly recorded against the system
• Develop detailed work plans for engagements, status tracking and reporting, and production of high-quality deliverables for clients
• Responsible for all Test, Test Tools Development and configuration management activities
• Experience in test planning and strategies
• Extended experience in SDLC and STLC
• QA methodology - Waterfall, Agile
• Testing and quality - Manual and test process management, testing governance, and guidelines
• Social skills - Interpersonal skills, Stakeholder management, conflict management

Nice to have

• Test Automation