Jr Software Test Engineer Jobs in Columbus, GA (NOW HIRING)

JOB SUMMARY
Expectations from this role:
Ensuring adherence to test practices and process to improve test coverage, for the following:
1. Create Test Estimates and Schedules
2. Identify business processes, conduct risk analysis and ensure test coverage
3. Ensure adherence of processes and standards
4. Produce test results, defect reports, test logs and reports for evidence of testing
5. Publish RCA reports and preventive measures
6. Report progress of testing
7. Contribute for Revenue savings for client by suggesting alternate method
8. Quality of Deliverables
Expectations from this role:
Create and Organise testing process based on project requirement and manage test activities within team, for the following
1. Test Estimates and Schedules-. Ensure Test Coverage
2. Produce test results, defect reports, test logs, and reports to evidence for testing
3. Publish RCA reports and preventive measures
4. Ensure Quality of Deliverables
5. Report project metrics and status
6. Ensure adherence of Engineering practices, processes and standards
7. Understand and contribute to test automation/performance testing
8. Work with DevOps team, when required; to understand testing framework and QA process for implementing continuous testing
Key Responsibilities
Typical performance measures:
1. Test Script Creation and Execution Productivity
2. Defect Leakage Metrics (% of defect leaked, % of UAT defects and % of Production defects)
3. % of Test case reuse
4.Test execution Coverage
5. Defect Acceptance Ratio
6.Test Review efficiency
7. On-time delivery, Effort Variance
8. Test Automation Coverage
Performance Areas:
Supporting Organization:
Ensure utilization and quality of deliverables prepared by the team
Co-ordinate Test Environment and Test Data provisioning
Test Design, Development, Execution:
Participate in review, walkthrough, demo and obtain sign off by stakeholder for Test Design
Prepare Test summary report for modules/features
Requirements Management:
Analyse, Prioritize, Identify Gaps and create workflow diagrams based on Requirements/User stories
Manage Project:
Participate in Test management
Preparing, Tracking and Reporting of Test progress based on schedule
Domain relevance:
Identify business processes, conduct risk analysis and ensure test coverage
Estimate:
Prepare Estimate, Schedule, Identify dependencies
Knowledge Management:
Consume, Contribute, Review (Best Practices, Lesson learned, Retrospective)
Test Design, Execution:
Test Plan preparation, Test Case/Script Creation, Test Execution
Risk Identification:
Identification of risk/issues and prepare Mitigation and Contingency plans
Test & Defect Management:
Conduct root cause and trend analysis of the defects
Test Planning:
Identify the test scenarios with understanding of systems, interfaces and application
Identify end-to-end business critical scenarios with less support Create and review the test scenarios and prepare RTM
Prepare estimates (time /effort) based on the requirements/User stories
Identify scope of testing
Client Management:
Define KPIs to the engagement and ensure adherence to these KPIs.
Stakeholder Connect:
Handle monthly/weekly governance calls and represent issues for the team
Required Qualifications
Skill Examples:
1. Ability to Create, Review and manage a test plan
2. Ability to prepare schedules based on estimates
3. Ability to track, report progress and take corrective measures on need basis
4. Ability to identify test scenarios and prepare RTM
5. Ability to analyze requirement/user stories and prioritize testing
6. Ability to carry out RCA
7. Ability to capture and report metrics
8. Ability to identify Test Data and Test Env. Specifications
Knowledge Examples:
1. Knowledge of Estimation techniques
2. Knowledge of Testing standards
3. Knowledge of identifying the scope of testing
4. Knowledge of RCA Techniques
5. Knowledge of Test design techniques
6. Knowledge of Test methodologies
7. Knowledge of scope identification and planning
8. Knowledge of Test automation tools and frameworks