Alternative Path is looking for a Senior QA, to assist one of its clients, which is a SAAS platform helping alternative investment firms to streamline their document collection and data extraction process using Machine Learning.
This role is responsible for leading quality review of various applications and includes creating test plans and strategy, test cases in partnership with developers, business analysts and project managers which are used to shape and verify code and check conformance to system requirements. The role relies upon test automation and manual testing tools.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse and interpret business requirements and end-user feedback to provide meaningful and timely inputs and apply analysis to the testing process.
- Create comprehensive Testing Strategies/ Plans, describing the testing scope, strategy, techniques, approach, and test data that you will use to test new features.
- Report defects for issues found under testing and manage the defect through its life cycle.
- Create Test cases, relevant test execution reports and bug reports and use them to convey current state of feature under test
- Collaboratively work with the design and development team members to resolve identified issues/bugs in timely manner.
- Apply the functionality knowledge and understanding to determine the impacted testing areas and come up with the relevant regression testing scope, plan, and timelines.
- Do regression, exploratory testing along with planned and documented testing for new features.
- Do automation planning towards automation testing of features and create automation scripts at UI and API levels using appropriate tools.
- Take a stand and share views on the quality of feature under test, back it up with necessary data and metrics, use it to provide (or not provide) release sign off.
- Do defect analysis of bugs found in Production environment and come up with systemized solutions to avoid these occurrences in the future.
- Collaboratively work across all areas of IT development, actively liaising with developers and business stakeholders to improve overall quality and performance.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the QA test strategy and process.
- Be aware of and understand the impact to QA of any new technologies being introduced.
Desired Skills and Experience
Technical
- Candidate must be a Graduate/Postgraduate with proven experience in QA Engineering field.
- Candidate has 3 to 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering field.
- Candidate has strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
- Hands on experience of using tooling for Test Case Management, Defect M.
- Strong Analytical, logical reasoning, problem-solving skills with Good Aptitude and communication.
- Flexible to work in designated shift hours to facilitate global communication.
- Be willing to help your teammates, share your knowledge with them, and learn from them.
- Be open to receiving constructive feedback and turning it into process improvements.
Personal
- Able to question the status quo
- Out-of-the-box thinking
- Smart & agile
- Fast learner
- Able to work autonomously
- Eager to learn new technologies
About Alternative Path
About
Alternative Path provides technology, business intelligence, and financial services. We help small to medium sized enterprises establish their presence in India in the technology and finance space.
Our teams' decades of experience in setting up of Centers of Excellence (COE) and smaller teams have helped organizations harness the full potential of skilled and diverse talent in India. Our implementation teams have delivered numerous projects across technology functions such as Software Quality Assurance, Application Development, Technology Infrastructure, Application Support, and Data Management and Analysis and Finance functions such as Fund Accounting, Management Reporting, Investor Reporting, Reconciliation, Treasury Workflow and Deal Management, and Record to Report processes.
As our name, Alternative Path, suggests we were formed to take a different approach, which is rooted deep in a Quality driven delivery process that is missing in typical service engagements large or small.
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Alternative Path provides technology, business intelligence, and financial services to small-medium sized enterprises and help them establish their presence in India. We work with clients globally.
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