QA Analyst at Kinetix in Pune, Maharashtra, IN

Senior-level IT Quality Assurance Analyst who ensures IT project quality through rigorous test planning and communication. Leads testing efforts whether it be manual or automated.

Job Responsibilities

• Define overall project-level test strategy
• Define test plans for all items to be tested
• Ties test cases back to user stories for full traceability
• Facilitates and tracks user acceptance testing
• Analyses project bugs and makes recommendations for future improvement
• Ability to present to all levels of the enterprise by way of demos/show-and-tells
• Ensures bugs are communicated clearly to development team and business partners as well as tracking the bugs to completion
• Writes weekly status reports to provide project manager and leadership with updates on overall test status
• Ability to communicate roadblocks to testing process and help remove those roadblocks or shift testing to an area not blocked
• Provides guidance for automation testing and performance testing team members
• Coaches less experienced testing team members on testing best practices.
• Works directly with team members from business sectors and the applications development team.
• Evaluates test plan and makes risk-based testing recommendations.
• Uses technical knowledge, creativity and company practices and priorities to obtain solutions to complex problems
• Uses judgment, creativity, and sound technical knowledge to obtain and recommend solutions.
• May interface with senior management to convey information.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of equivalent work experience as a senior QA Analyst or QA Lead
• Experience with trading systems is a must
• Knowledge of testing processes and best practices
• Knowledge of conceptual and logical systems
• Ability to apply general organizational knowledge of the business and systems processes in problem analysis
• Ability to coach and mentor other lower-level quality assurance analysts
• Proven leadership skills
• Ability to direct automation engineers to define an automation roadmap and direction
• Experience testing APIs, mobile applications, backend systems and integrations with vendor applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical team members
• Familiarity and experience testing security-related items in accordance with the OWASP to 10 application security risks
• Experience with SQL
• Experience with Jira
• Extensive agile experience
• Mindset of continuous improvement