Functional Test Lead (Fund Accounting) - AVP

The candidate will have primary responsibility of software quality assurance from Business perspective. He / She will be working as part of Change Management team and assist in testing of projects related to Global Fund Services for timely completion of scheduled projects. He / She is responsible for maintaining overall test delivery of the assigned project. It will require working with Global IT, Product and Operations senior management to provide a high quality software product to the internal and external clients and meet the agreed and expected service standards.

Responsibilities:

• Provide functional test analysis, planning, design, execution and reporting for testing assignments.
• Develop approaches for various types of testing (SIT, UAT etc) for web/UI and database applications 
• Lead Test initiative and train the team as necessary.
• Ensure accurate and timely execution of the assigned tasks.
• Estimation & Milestone planning for the project and provide estimates for Testing.
• Highlight Risk and issues to senior management
• For the specific testing project, support the Project Test Manager(s) by contributing to the Test Plan(s) for the relevant test phases, the Test Readiness Reviews, test progress reporting, the Test Completion/Summary Reports and Test Defect Reports.
• Prepare where required: Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data, Test Coverage analysis for a given testing assignment.
• Work closely with the stakeholders or other groups in preparation and execution of the planned functional testing.
• Play a lead role in the analysis and reporting of test results, working closely with business, technology and support areas to investigate and interpret test findings.
• Assist in the reception and quality assurance of the business requirements, solution design and business process documents individual projects. 
• Sound knowledge of Defect Management Process and handling its different phases.
• Able to take Defect and Client calls with quick responsiveness on asked actions
• Hands on experience on developing help guides/ User Manual/ MIS reports.
• As a member of the Test Work stream, participate in peer reviews of Test Approaches, Test Plans, Test Conditions and Test Scripts as well as contributing to the on-going development of test strategy and policy within the Testing Programme.
• Track the schedule and testing progress and be accountable for the tasks and releases.
• Manage meetings and defect calls independently
• Ensure innovative solution for challenging deliveries
• Knowledge of Agile and Risk based testing  and Ensure process improvements
• Able to handle a cross functional team of Test Analysts, Leads and Automation developers