Sr Information Technology Quality Assurance Analyst, Assurant-GCC, India

As a Sr Information Technology Quality Assurance Analyst, you will play a key role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality enterprise solutions. Your responsibilities include analyzing user stories, crafting and executing test cases, and documenting defects across applications, services, and software components. You will actively share your expertise with team members, fostering a strong QA mindset and promoting best practices in quality assurance.

You will also be accountable for developing, executing, and troubleshooting automation test cases, while continuously enhancing the automation framework to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the test suite. Additionally, you will support the QA Lead by providing leadership, technical guidance, and mentorship to both onshore and offshore QA teams within your domain.

This position will be in Hyderabad at our India location.

QA Activities

Active participation in elaborationsDesign and develop test approach/strategy for user stories and bugsDesign and develop test scenarios and test casesWrite SQL queries for test data set upWrite SQL queries to validate test resultsCollaborate with POs and BAs to understand feature and story conditions of acceptance and gain sign-off of written test casesPerform test execution and lead the defect management processRe-test resolved defects by re-testing the original test case and related functionalityConduct demosParticipate and conduct non functional testing (security, performance, load, stress, multitenancy, DR etc)Clearly document system defects with repeatable steps to reproduceWork with automation team members identify automation scopeContribute to automated script development and increased automationIdentify, coordinate and perform end to end  test execution with upstream and downstream domainsCoordinate with off-shore QA team members to hand-off work as needed, may require off-hours callsDemo completed features and stories to POs and businessAssist in Regression, integration, smoke, platform testing.Write automated test cases.Execute Automated test cases.

Support to QA Lead Activities

Assist QA Lead in testing experience throughout the software lifecycle including managing test cases, defects, metrics, and status reportingAssist QA lead by providing timely feedback of QA team members for performance issues.Coordinate on-shore and off-shore QA activities, which may require off-hours callsAssist Track defect status and priority to ensure re-testing occurs in a timely mannerAssist QA lead and team in Design and develop test approach/strategy for non-functional testing.Understand how test automation can be leveraged to improve overall quality and speed of regression testing and to reduce riskWork with release management tools to understand when expected code will be delivered to a test environmentContribute to QA process improvement initiativesWork closely with other domain QA teams to ensure proper integration testing is exercisedReport on progress in daily scrum stand-ups, raising issues, risks and blocks quicklyActively participate in sprint retrospectives to improve team, agile and QA processesEnsure traceability throughout the QA processCollaborate with agile team in planning, estimating and committing to sprint QA activitiesPlan and review strategies to test features and stories with teamCreate, estimate and update QA tasks during the sprint

What are the requirements needed for this position? 

5+ years of technical and quality leadership testing enterprise level software5+ years of experience developing test plans and test strategies for enterprise level softwareExp in Automation + Functional Testing.Experience with Agile development methodologiesAbility to work in a large, matrix environmentStrong attention to detail and focus on root-cause analysisStrong analytical, problem solving and conflict resolution skillsStrong interpersonal and communication skills demonstrated through past experience and resultsAbility to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writingSkilled at leading meetings and making presentationsA great attitude

What other are the Preferred Experience, Skills, and Knowledge?

Experience writing SQL queriesExperience testing Data Migration, Data Quality, and ETLExperience testing web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, and CSSAngularJS and Web Services testingExperience testing sites built using design patterns such as MVC and architectural patterns such as Domain Driven DesignExperience testing WCF and REST services within a Service Oriented ArchitectureFamiliarity with Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Test ManagerFamiliarity with the insurance industryFamiliar with JMeter and LoadRunner.