Summary

S/he will develop, establish, enforce, and improve quality assurance and testing strategy including: test automation, performance testing, negative testing, code and coverage analysis, compatibility testing, and environment management.

Responsibilities

- Produce and execute test plans and test cases, document results, log clear and reproducible bug reports and perform exploratory testing.

- Automate manual testing where applicable.

- Develop, establish, enforce, and improve quality assurance and testing strategy including: test automation, performance testing, negative testing, code and coverage analysis, compatibility testing, and environment management.

- Contribute to the design, development and refinement of the continuous integration testing environment.

- Work with development team to define and improve the release process based on best practices.

- Support the development teams for software releases.

- Verify and validate user stories, providing input regarding requirements.

- Ensure timely testing coverage according to project schedules.

- Ensure release candidates pass quality assurance checks

- Measure and monitor progress to ensure releases are delivered on time.

- Dynamically adapt test approach to the context of each project.

- Coordinate and work directly with development teams, developers, product owners and/or external test teams to resolve problems and ensure successful releases.

- Participate in project meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks.

- Work with system team to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms.

- Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.

- Maintain a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.

- Maintain release schedules and details for all software solutions, ensure it is communicated to and aligned among all key stakeholders.

- Negotiate, plan and manage all release activities.

- Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Release Go/NoGo reviews.

- Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges.

- Work with other team members on the GoLive activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.

- Report progress on problem resolution to project or development team.

- Perform analysis and recommend improvements in quality and release process.

- Any other adhoc duties as required or assigned

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field

· Minimum 2 years of previous quality assurance, product release or project management experience and 4 years of experience in information systems operations environment in systems analysis or development.

· Familiarity with QA processes and flows.

· Deep understanding and experience in software industry, focused on software release and QA.

· Excellent interpersonal communication and stakeholder management skills.

· Experience working directly with global and local teams.

· Experience of DevOps tools.

· Effective management of multiple tasks, expectations and processes simultaneously.

· Adequate knowledge of software development lifecycle.

· Ability to work with cross functional work teams toward task completion.

· Sense of ownership, critical thinking, and analytical skills