Senior QA Analyst

About Innovecture
Innovecture, a U.S. based Information Technology and Management Consulting company, founded in 2007, brings a wealth of expertise and experience in Technology Consulting and Technology Services across various technologies and across multiple industry domains. With innovation embedded in its consulting and services approach, Innovecture has delivered great results for its Fortune 500 clients. With development centers in Salt
Lake City, USA and Pune, India, Innovecture leverages the Global Agile Delivery model effectively to deliver the projects within time and budget. Our best in class processes and people ensure the highest quality deliverable.

Role : Senior QA Analyst
Experience: 5-10 years
Location : Pune/Mumbai

Your Experience

A visionary forward thinker who views quality holistically and can drive a quality engineering ethos throughout the POD. Understanding industry trends around tools, methods, and practice - implementing where possible. You must be a team player who can work across many teams to establish shift left quality and test automation approach.

Things you will do:

Implements and oversees the test automation approach (working with all squads within the POD) to deliver the Test Automation Strategy including CICD, nonfunctional testing - performance, security engineering, compatibility, accessibility testing
Drives out improvements and innovation around tooling, frameworks and approaches working on shift left first principles and the automation pyramid
Able to work constructively with other POD leads and Squad leads to ensure the best value is being driven through the automation approach and that the approach is consistent with other PODs where beneficial
Works with the POD leads and the business/POs to ensure there is a holistic and consistent approach to Quality (through RCA, metrics, code quality, (defect) stage containment) and ensures cross communication and collaboration on QA best practices, risks and open issues across other PODs
Leads and federates the overall test approach to the Squads - built-in quality, metrics, methods and tools
Leads process improvement initiatives focus on Quality, Velocity and Efficiency (agreed across the POD) e.g closer alignment to business acceptance, operations etc
Ensure consistency across all squads in line with POD strategy/maturity/priorities/global approach - undertaking quality reviews and deep dives to ensure there is a consistent approach
Input into PI planning, and subsequent resourcing planning - including skills profiling and identify training requirements for POD members
Identify supplier training requirements and feed into global KPI and supplier measures
Provides timely reports with qualitative and quantitative analysis of test coverage, defect trends
& leakage enabling key stakeholders (including Squad leaders) for timely course correction
Define and design quality metrics and dashboard to enable the Pod lead & PO to frequently gauge the quality of the software
Manage a team of Test Engineer leads and Test analysts

What you will bring:

Strong understanding of Test Engineering and Quality Assurance best practices, tools and policies
The ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional environment
Proven track record of successfully delivering Quality software solutions
Strong Leadership skills and a team player
Experience or knowledge of working with Agile at Scale, Lean and Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development and Infrastructure as Code
Experience in selenium tools and Configuring Selenium Test Environment (Ex: Eclipse IDE, Java, Selenium-C# etc). Involvement in Test Environment Setup
Familiar with Automation Framework Design and Implementation
Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices
Good communication skills

Technical Skills Required:

Proficient in the following Test automation languages and frameworks; JavaScript, Selenium-C#
Strong experience working with MSSQL, API test automation
Good understanding of working with a source control systems such as Azure DevOps/TFS, Github or Bitbucket
Experience working with Jira

Values and Culture
Our team comprises all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds. We believe everyone brings value and a unique perspective and want to promote a fun and diverse culture. To help us succeed we hope that you can demonstrate:
A genuine passion for technology
A clear commitment to creating brilliant products that will give our clients the edge
A willingness to work fluidly and respectfully with our talented team