• Oversee all quality testing, maintenance, and deliverables associated with Digi’s information technology initiative. Manage continuous quality improvement to ensure the delivery of the best possible IT services. Oversee all activities conducted by the quality assurance team, including testing, evaluating, and optimizing applications and information technology processes. Develop and promote best practices and protocols to be followed in quality assurance testing. Ensure all IT initiatives meet government legal and regulatory requirements. Analyze data and test applications as well as the overall IT framework and make suggestions to senior management with regard to overall quality improvements. Identify and resolve any issues that may arise in testing and quality assurance procedures of systems and deliverables. Directly involved with risk assessment, identification, and resolution with respect to applications, deliverables, and systems. Adhere to SOA governance, business and financial process through daily governance meeting.

You are:

• Positive thinker, highly ambitious and willing to take challenges with good working attitude
• Confident and able to work with stakeholders of any level in the most professional and effective manner
• Active Listener and possess good interpersonal & communication skills

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Your Responsibilities: ​

• Collaborate with project stakeholder and vendors to lead, develop and deliver Master Test Strategy & Plan.
• Review System Integration Test (SIT), QA UAT & User Acceptance Test (UAT) approach and strategy for the respective application to develop end to end test strategy.
• Lead and manage the following activities for all impacted systems:

• Test cases preparation & execution
• Test data preparation including Test User Mgmt (user creation, access mgmt.)
• Data migration preparation & execution
• Performance & Stress test preparation & execution
• Dry Run test preparation & execution
• Operation Readiness Testing preparation & execution
• Non-functional Test preparation & execution
• Product configurations Testing (Proof of Concept)
• Prepare Product Application on Test Environment

• Lead, coordinate, manage and monitor SIT, QA & UAT process:

• Manage and govern end to end testing providing quality assurance
• Manage, track & triage defects and issues until closure
• Track and prioritize the daily testing execution progress and defect status.
• Conduct daily checkpoint meeting to update testing status & progress

• Prepare and publish reporting dashboard on overall test management tracking status and progress
• Lead & manage testing environment readiness and configuration changes.
• Schedule cross team meeting (if required) for complex defects/issues.
• Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
• Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
• Organize the testing kick-off meeting
• Define the Strategy
• Build a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.
• Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills).
• Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
• Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
• Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
• Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
• Check / Review the Test Cases documents.
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.)
• Attend the regular call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
• Communication with the Vendor (If required).
• Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
• Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.

Your Merits:

• 5+ yrs. experience in a Test Manager capacity
• Strong understanding of large IT Project Management, Integration and/or Business Application QA Testing.
• Demonstrated experience leading Testing for Telco Applications Charging & Billing, CRM
• Charging & Billing upgrade experience required
• Expert level experience with HP Quality Center/ALM, JIRA, Rally or other Test Management Tools
• Must be a disciplined, self-starter and have the ability to execute on assignments independently.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail with superior written, verbal, and problem solving skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Strong capacity for operating in a flexible, dynamic environment where creative and strategic thinking is required.
• Ability to work with demanding users in a high pressure environment
• Ability to multi-task is essential

• JIRA
• Senior QA Tester
• Rally