Project Description: Join this exciting team of testing professionals who serve a bank in Australia. To secure this position, you need to have a proven track record in testing banking applications as well as experience, preferably in Lending. You will be required to work with various stakeholders and have a level of familiarization with Agile testing methodologies. The work involves managing and creating testing requirements for various internal teams. Responsibilities: Test Initiation • Support QA manager in test initiation phase on the requirement analysis and test effort estimation Test Plan • Review and understand the project-specific business requirement • Document the question and get the answer using clarification trackers • Identify the testable requirements, impacted application, and process • Identify the test environment and test data requirements • Provide data point to QA manager to consolidate in the strategy documents • Map the requirement in the traceability metrics • Raise the test environment and test data requests • Prepare the test cases and peer review • Participate in the test review walkthroughs and capture the review comments • Incorporate the review comments and baseline the test plan artefacts Test Execution • Participate in the daily stand-up and raise the concerns and recommendations (if any) • Work on test allocation based on the entry criteria • Execute and mentor the junior resources • Capture the test results and log the defects as per the defined template • Participate in the defect triage and identify the resolutions with the help build team • Retest and close the defects • Support QA manager on the daily reports • Periodically review the test results and traceability metrics and work with QA manager on any deviation (if any) Test Closure • Review the traceability metrics and organise the test artifacts in the designated folders • Review the exit criteria and update the checklist • End state the defects with appropriate remarks • Support the QA manager on the test summary report data points • Participate in the retro / lesson learnt session and contribute • Encourage the junior resources on their outstanding contributions Mandatory Skills Description: • 8 to 12 years of experience as a Test Analyst or Engineer • Exposure to SDLC and STLC • Banking Experience in Lending is mandatory, and good understanding of loan lifecycle • Strong Experience in the testing of Core Banking System • Test methodology - Waterfall, Agile, and DevOps • Testing expertise - Requirement gathering, Test planning techniques, Defect management • Layer Testing experience - Presentation layer (Web GUI & Mobile application), Logical layer (APIs), and Data layer (Database & Reporting tools) • Exposure to API testing tools, e.g., Postman, Soup UI • Exposure to collaboration tools - ex, Jira, Confluence, Teams SharePoint • Exposure to test & defect management tools - ex, ALM and Jira • Clear understanding on test governance
Job Title
Senior QA Analyst (8 yrs as Test Engineer)