Quality Assurance Lead - NED

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The Manager, Software QA and Testing is a management role, accountable for ensuring the effective planning, control, and coordination of the relevant test program.

This role ensures adherence to the test methodology and the quality of their direct line reports output through the application of management principles and test and quality assurance methodology.

The Manager, Software QA and Testing, manages a team of individuals to ensure effective service delivery and adherence to relevant operational requirements and takes responsibility for the quality of the software application/module and ensure continuous improvement process is followed.

This people management role fosters a collaborative and innovative team cultures focused on operational excellence.

What you'll be doing

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Works across multiple teams to ensure the planning, execution, reporting, and successful completion of QA activities for all new development cycles for various releases.
• Contributes to Agile-related user story review meetings and/or work with relevant business stakeholders and developers to understand the new or modified application functionality.
• Designs and implements end-to-end test scenarios, as well as debugging and defining corrective actions.
• Contributes to performing and documenting risk analysis and record test progress and results. Performing thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Works across multiple teams to review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Creates detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Designs, develops, codes, and executes automation scripts
• Works across multiple teams to identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs and develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
• Develops standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness.
• Development languages, preference to Java.
• Object orientated programming (OOP).
• Mobile test automation.
• SOAP and RESTFUL services.
• Use of testing tools and frameworks (eg Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Karate, Jira, JMeter).
• Service virtualisation & data virtualisation advantageous.
• Vulnerability testing advantageous

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• BSc IT or BCom IT or similar qualification
• ISTQB Agile foundations cert (advanced preferred).

Required Experience:

• Test strategy design
• Test approach design
• Test plan and management
• 4 years management experience
• Adaptability
• Stakeholder management
• Mentoring & coaching SQE & other squad members
• Bootcamp training in Agile & DevOps.
• Test analysis & design.
• Test automation experience.
• Development experience preferred.
• Experience in Agile delivery.
• Exposure to Test Driven Development (TDD) advantageous.
• Experience in Behaviour Driven Development (BDD).
• Exposure within a continuous delivery model preferred.
• Experience in NFT (Performance, load, stress).

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NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.

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