JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title: Test Lead (Applies to Functional, Automation and Performance)

Location Business Area: Hyderabad

Enterprise Core Systems

Job Type

Career band.

Role type: Temporary.

Coordinator.

Administration Coordinator.

Days/Hours of Work Monday to Friday, U.K Hrs (Working Hrs need to be flexible as per business requirement).

Reports to Senior Manager.

Organization is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise.  The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the three key markets of the Americas, Asia and Europe and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; Corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax, pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution.  Alongside world-class legal careers, organization offers excellent opportunities in business professional functions that underpin its business operations.

We offer you the opportunity to join a global law firm with one of the most pre-eminent legal practices in the world. We have an established presence in India for more than ten years, delivering value and supporting. Organization offices across the globe in the areas of Information Technology, Finance, Business Research, Legal Support, Document Production, Project Management, Human Resources and Continuous Improvement. We have been certified as a 'Great Place to Work' in India for implementing people practices that foster collaboration and enable employees to reach their full potential. We are proud of the colleagues who work for us and of the service that together we provide, many of whom are experts in their own sectors. Join us and you will experience, first-hand, the one firm, one team approach that makes working at the organization so different.

Our strength comes from our teamwork and working together as a highly talented and collaborative team. Recognizing and celebrating the collective effort that drive both the right outcomes for our clients and sustainable success for the firm is an essential foundation for our success.

Role Summary:

As a Quality member, you will oversee testing of applications developed by custom development. You will be involved in end-to-end processes and metrics for software testing within the organization and own the implementation of integration and other level of testing. You will collaborate with project managers and software developers to establish reporting metrics, test scenarios, and efficiencies through manual testing and streamlining QA techniques to achieve quality objectives

This role demands someone who has:

Soft Skills Applicable to All Streams (Functional, Automation & Performance):

Experienced in testing larger scale projects/ quick changes from planning to sign off.

Must have proven ability to provide project estimates and work-breakdown schedules.

Must be extremely responsive, able to work under pressure in crisis with a strong sense of urgency.

Excellent client communication skills.

Excellent task management skills.

A team player, excels in working collaboratively with geo-dispersed teams.

Able to demonstrate understanding of key standards and processes for quality assurance.

Strong problem solving and analytical skills demonstrated by the ability to assimilate new information, understand complex topics and arrive at sound analysis and judgment.

Ability to work effectively in a fast paced and changing business environment.

Flexibility, adaptability and work in minimal supervision if required are must have to be successful in this role.

Strong analytical skills, effectiveness in problem-solving, results-oriented, pragmatic, hands-on person.

Mature and proactive with a high sense of responsibility and reliability.

Excellent interpersonal skills, proven track record of building strong relationships and establishing credibility with key stakeholders across different lines of business and hierarchies.

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

Analyzing the requirement from testing perspective.

Creating test plans and writing test scripts.

Closely working with project manager and product owner to identify the risk areas & derive appropriate regression test suite to minimize the identified risk.

Managing the defects logged and tracking them till they get closed.

Performing RCA over the defects logged.

Support for system testing and integration testing.

Skills & Experience:

Technical Skills Applicable to All Streams (Functional, Automation & Performance):

Well versed with testing methodologies particularly with more focus of Agile methodologies.

Previous experience of testing Microsoft applications, Workday.

Ability to find, file and manage bugs, aggressively driving quality.

Experience in testing Web applications, Microsoft applications, and standalone desktop applications.

Experience in using development tools such as Visual Studio 2013 or higher, configuration and design tools such as TFS, Visio, UML, etc.

Exposure to Defect Tracking tool i.e. TFS, MTM.

Experience in SQL DB validation skills.

Must have demonstrated a growing proficiency in testing, medium to large applications including the following areas; web services, web sites, database, authentication, configuration, and debugging.

In depth knowledge in Regression Testing.

Experience in creating Test Plans, Test Strategy and Test Exit Reports.

Ability to communicate & reporting on-going testing progress to Project stakeholders.

Experience in creating good Daily Status Reports (DSR) to relevant. Stakeholders of the project.

Must have proven ability to provide project estimates and work-breakdown schedules.

Ability to independently create test data as per the requirements.

Bringing out the alternative solutions/suggestions in case of technical issues arising out of the day-to-day work activities.

Technical Skills Applicable to Automation:

Good knowledge of Selenium, TestNG and Maven.

Should be able to mentor other team members for testing automation.

Have good hands-on experience in implementing Automation framework.

Have good hands-on experience in implementation and/or maintenance of an automated functional testing (framework, test suites).

Responsible for providing test automation metrics and other reports.

Proven analytical skills, able to independently develop functional test automations with little support from the manual functional testers.

Strong experience in front-end automation tools for Web and Desktop applications, including but not limited to Selenium, Winium, WinApp, UFT, Test Complete.

Strong experience in developing back-end automated tests (REST APIs and data validation).

Hands on experience in building & maintaining a Hybrid/Data-driven automation framework.

Should be able to customize various framework components on as-needed basis.

Technical skills Applicable to Performance:

Experience with relevant tools along with APM tools.

Experience with Oracle, Reporting and iManage applications.

Experience with scripting and testing using LoadRunner, Neoload and JMeter.

Ability to work on multiple assignments simultaneously and produce high quality products.

Ability to create reusable performance test scripts.

Preferred but not mandatory:

ISTQB or ISEB certification foundation level.

Exhibiting similar knowledge on usage of other Test Management Tools when worked on other tools (Ex: Must be able to relate the features/concepts of ALM into MTM/TFS or vice versa).

Education and Experience:

Requires bachelors in engineering Degree or equivalent.

8-10 years professional experience in testing.

Equal Opportunities:

At the Organization we understand that our true asset is our people. We believe that each and every one of us should experience an equality of opportunity and an equality of experience here. We are always working to develop and deliver the best and most innovative approaches to make that happen. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.

We are therefore committed to treating all employees and job applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, color, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age.  This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

The firm will regularly review its procedures and selection criteria to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and otherwise treated according to their relevant individual abilities and merits.

We have a number of initiatives and networks that support our aspiration to be the Global Law Firm of choice. These include our LGBT, Gender Parity, Ethnicity and Disability networks.