Your day at NTT DATA

• 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 youll 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).