Manager, Software Quality Assurance

Role: Test Manager(M2)

Purpose of role: To manage the QA planning and execution for the ongoing releases for the iFirm Global product

Key areas of responsibilities:

• Functional test requirement analysis
• Test strategy and planning
• Test design and execution
• Software regression analysis and test planning
• Root cause analysis and planning/executing corrective and preventive actions

• Test automation framework requirements analysis, design and implementation
• Automation strategy & planning
• Automation development and maintenance
• Automation test cases Code reviews

• Participation in Agile process
• Understand business and quality priorities
• Devise a QA process suitable to overcome the quality challenges and achieve objectives
• Aligning with the product KPIs and identification & demonstration of QA KPI, metrics
• Risk identification, management
• Collaborate with cross functional development and support (consultant) teams to optimize efficiencies and improve product quality
• Being custodian of quality and should take hard decisions beneficial for the business/quality

• Driving a team of test engineers (manual and automation) from strategy and delivery perspective

Knowledge, skills and experience:

Overall experience: 12- 15 years

QA experience: 8+ years

• Experienced in test management, strategizing, planning & execution [ Strategizing scope of testing suites for Smoke, regression, Integration and ensure optimal coverage of testing for release]
• Strong experience in test automation delivery and demonstrating benefits
• Very good and practical OOPS knowledge and experience
• Hands-on experience in designing writing and maintaining automation test framework

• Hands-on experience in developing automation at
  • Services level
  • API Automation
  • UI Level

• Technology: .NET (API testing, C#, Selenium, Playwright)

• Tools: Jenkins, Selenium Web driver, Test management tools like Microsoft test manager, Agile tools like Jira, Rally, Code repository/version control tools like Subversion, Git, GitFlow

• Experience in setting Continuous Integration and Continuous testing

• Experience in Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

• Database: SQL query building & execution, knowledge of stored procedures desirable

• Other competencies-
  • Strong analytical, reasoning and problem solving skills
  • Good communication and collaboration skills to work with Sales, Support, Consulting Services, Product Management and Development teams

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.