- Has working experience and advanced and specialized technical/functional knowledge in own discipline. Understands how own area contributes to the business. Acts as a reference for colleagues with less experience and supports junior team members.
- Influences decisions related to own activity, anticipating dependencies and consequences in complex scenarios, contributes to transversal projects, proposes improvements to processes and is accountable for own and team commitments.
- Works independently within plan dictated by manager, with some guidance on most complex situations.
Specific accountabilities:
Test strategy
* Attend to specification/architecture reviews (also on customer specification reviews when applicable), and provide feedback along with any potential impact, risk, issue or missed gap based on experience
* Define test strategy and test plan containing test cases (functional and non-functional), ensure traceability with specifications and customer requirements
* Ensure compliance of test strategy with CI/CD guidelines, Green IT guidelines and all quality guidelines (SDL, STDL), QA best practices/standards from the industry (ISTQB..)
Test expertise
* Design test cases and write test case scripts
* Prepare test environment, test data, and execute test cases
* Provide sign-off (go/no-go) on tested features based on defined exit criteria
* Continuously assess the need to add/update/remove test cases to existing regression and CI/CD pipeline when new product features are delivered and based on metrics (stabilization, deletion of flaky tests...)
* As part of maintenance activities, investigate PTRs, test the fixes, and enrich test suites accordingly
Test automation
* Assess necessity to automate subset of (or all) test scripts
* Use test automation framework and contribute to its improvement
Defect management
* Open defects for software or documentation, assign relevant level of severity based on the importance of the issue, provide relevant investigation and information in order to fix defects
* Check defect fix, and give go/no-go for the load of production defects
Reporting
* Report and communicate on test activities to the line organization, software developers and product definitions analysts
* Provide visibility on testing campaign/milestones to all stakeholders
Support
* Provide mentoring and adapted support to newcomers
* Provide adapted support to QAE peers based on experience
Knowledge sharing
* Share knowledge on a specific topic (technical/functional) and spread it among the QA community as well as other stakeholders
Quality assurance ambassador
* Show accountability for the project, product or release quality control
* Propagate quality assurance best practices based on highest standards in relevant teams and quality communities
Technicity
* Efficiently use QA tooling stack and frameworks
* Be a force of proposition for improvement of existing ones, or development of new ones
* Be proactive about any issue/change that is likely to affect QA peers daily job
Continuous and sustainable improvement
* Be a driving force behind proposals to improve current quality processes in a constantly evolving development lifecycle framework (SAFE)
* Act as a pioneer and be part of implementation teams/workshops/taskforces for newest used tools/frameworks/technologies
* Participate to the understanding, measurement and reduction of the environmental impact of the tested applications and associated QA activities
