Job description
Company Description
👋🏼 We’re Nagarro.
We are a digital product engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (17 500+ experts across 37 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We’re looking for great new colleagues. That’s where you come in!
By this point in your career, it is not just about the tech you know or how well you can code. It is about what more you want to do with that knowledge. Can you help your teammates proceed in the right direction? Can you tackle the challenges our clients face while always looking to take our solutions one step further to succeed at an even higher level? Yes? You may be ready to join us.
Job Description
The Quality Assurance (QA) Lead is ultimately accountable for QA/Testing portion of project deliverables (i.e. test plans, test cases, test results, schedules, and overall quality). The QA Lead ensures user requirements are satisfied, releases to production are defect free, and systems/changes will perform as expected. This role handles the process of analyzing and testing software through all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, including functional, integration, regression and acceptance testing.
Functional
- Responsible for producing and delivering high quality, structured, fully tested solutions on time, and in accordance with business requirements and IS standards.
- Reviews business requirement documents and works closely with Business Analysts and the development team in reviewing and clarifying functional and non-functional aspects of the application.
- Leads the delivery of functional (integration and system), regression and user acceptance testing activities.
- Writes clear, concise, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- Estimates, prioritizes, plans and coordinates testing activities.
- Writes and executes test cases that will ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Develops necessary test data.
- Develops and maintains manual test suites and test cases.
- Responsible for finding, reproducing, and documenting issues for a product team in a clear and thorough manner.
- Verifies defect fixes and performs follow-up work to resolve issues.
- Performs thorough regression testing.
- Tracks and reports quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
Technical
- Recommends and/or implements testing automation tools and approaches.
- Designs, develops and executes automation scripts.
- Poses a strong familiarity with HTML and JavaScript and has the ability to write moderately complex SQL queries as needed to verify test results and analyze problems.
- Demonstrates an understanding of business and technical process flows and how to support them.
Leadership / Strategic
- Champions testing adoption and promotes testing usage to all areas of IS, both inside and outside areas of application development.
- Defines and governs testing related standards.
- Researches and introduces new testing tools and test strategies.
- Establishes QA processes and guidelines.
- Cultivates and disseminates knowledge of QA best practices.
- Committed to personal growth.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, Business Administration or related field.
- Must possess excellent technical and non-technical verbal and writing skills.
- Must effectively communicate testing metrics, progress, schedules, issues impacting delivery and changes found during testing
- Comfortable in a fast-paced and informal environment
- Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
- Ability to work productively both independently and in a team environment
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
- Ability to influence others to gain alignment
- High energy/demonstrate initiative
- Ability to drive results and make decisions
- Ability to train other testing resources
- Passion for quality and continuous improvement mindset
Additional Information
Nice-to-have skills:
- Extensive Jira Experience
- Test Release Planning - Subject7 / Automation Platform Experience
- Test Case Management Background
- PBI Dashboard Experience
- Utilization of Existing APIs (analyzing available API documentation)
- Front End Testing (UI)
- Back End Testing (API End Points / Database)
