Job Description :
Position: Test Lead - Enterprise Integration Services
Location: Clinton or Jersey City, NJ (Locals Preferred)
Duration: Full Time
Visa: USC or GC
Salary: $150K/Yr
Job Description:
General Overview:
The Test Lead role is accountable and responsible for creating, facilitating
the cross-team review and approval of, and maintaining on an ongoing basis
the overall test strategy and plan that will drive and govern the execution
for all projects and initiatives within the Enterprise Integration Services
domain. This includes detailing test types, test phases and correlating
entrance and exit criteria, key test conditions/scenarios, timing,
sequencing, and dependencies, developing innovative strategies that
effectively test APIs and Microservices to ensure their viability for
business consumption.
The Test Lead guides testing resources in successfully completing the
development and execution of detailed test cases/scripts, and developing
test data requirements, working within an integrated cross-functional team
The Test Lead works with the QM Center of Excellence (TCoE) to ensure
effective implementation and usage of Test Management processes,
deliverables and tools for all assignments including sharing and
recommending of advance testing techniques and tools, changes to optimize
processes.
Primary Responsibility:
* Performs process and requirements analysis to develop comprehensive
test strategies, test cases, test scripts, and test data requirements for
complex projects and changes that typically involve multiple transactional
based systems, feeds and data stores.
* Interfaces effectively with management on organizational testing
needs and incorporates feedback into overarching testing strategy
* Leads a team of system testers in an on-shore/off-shore model.
Ability to overcome challenges in working distributed and being effective
* Mentors less experience resources, staying current in and
maintaining demonstrateable knowledge of the business domains, business
processes, advanced verification & validation techniques
* Collaborates across disciplines (development, architecture,
operations, project management, business partners) to improve
communications, advance technical and business knowledge sharing as well as
influence process improvements
* Effectively works within Agile Scrum/DevOps teams, acting as Scrum
Master when called upon, leads the defect management process; effectively
prioritizing defects, determining resolution as well as root cause,
providing on-going metrics and trending to aide in determining level of
quality and release recommendations
* Effective and proactive resource planning for projects, initiatives,
and "run the business" changes
* Utilizes advanced techniques in effort estimation, strategic and
tactical test planning and execution that contributes to meeting the
established goals and outcomes including high quality delivery and business
value
* Demonstrates and promotes re-usability of test cases
* Collaborates with the QM CoE to continuously improves / advances the
QA discipline including processes, procedures, standards, and tools as well
as shift-left concepts and actions within a transformational environment
* Supports end users and consumers of Integration Services
* Supports and where required performs usability testing in
conjunction with core user groups (developers, data integrators, 3rd-party
vendors)
* Works closely with specialized teams to design and execute non
functional testing such as security and operability
* Key contributor to the review process on critical inputs such as
business and technical requirements, vendor contractors and SOWs, detailed
architecture and integration diagrams
* Ensures the integrity of the test data and environment(s)
* Tracks key testing metrics and ensures regular and consistent
communication of progress towards overall testing goals to IT core team and
business stakeholders
* Develops and reviews final Test Summary report, obtaining
stakeholders'' sign-off for promotion to Production
* Facilitates testing-related development activities, guiding System
testers, cooperating with Test Shared Services, and Release management for
testing automation, regression, performance, etc.
* Ensures that assigned testing teams work together effectively and
that the testing function is properly integrated across technological areas
(supports end-to-end testing)
* Reviews business and technical requirements for clarity and
testability
* Ensures technical requirements are traceable to business
requirements
* Ensures key test planning deliverables are consistent and compliant
with CoE standards
Experience:
* 5+ years experience testing associated with APIs, Microservices,
Webservices technologies and platforms required
* 2+ years of management or leadership experience required
* Proven experience designing, developing and executing effective
testing strategies that leverage testing techniques earlier in the
continuous build and development cycles
* Proven experience with test and defect management processes, tools,
and metrics
* Experience working with and managing on and off-shore resources
* Experience implementing automation frameworks, preferably in a
virtual services environment.
* Ability to conduct application modeling including business processes
and data flows, user experience 2-3 years experience in test data
management. Minimum 2 years experience working in Agile practices, with
DevOps preferred
* Proven experience working in an onshore/offshore resourcing model
* Experience working in cloud environments
* Experience working with continuous build and integration tools such
as Jenkins, Bamboo, Git, Jira, Cucumber
Skills:
* Advanced knowledge of common testing procedures and methodologies
* Ability to work with business stakeholders, program/project
managers, architects, service integrators and developers to understand
proposed implementation to design optimal testing goals and requirements
* Ability to contextualize testing strategy and operations within
broader business needs
* Strong working knowledge of the QA review and testing process,
designing test scenarios and test scripts, including understanding of
various testing techniques
* Experienced facilitator in defect management process and sequencing
of work
* Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
* Strong technical skills
Education - Degrees/Certificates:
* Bachelor''s degree and/or equivalent experience