Test Delivery Lead Test Delivery Lead
- Mufg Pension
- 6 - 10 years
- Pune
- 3 months ago
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Job Description
Overview We are looking for an experienced Test Delivery Lead who is driven and passionate about Testing and Quality, who can lead a team of testers in the analysis, design, planning, preparation, and execution of testing across an enterprise scale application landscape. A strong background in super, insurance and financial systems will be highly advantageous.
Key Accountabilities and main responsibilities
Strategic Focus
- Manage and be accountable for a team, catering to portfolio of programs/projects to ensure successful delivery and taking business on the quality journey.
- Formulate an effective, practical but robust Test Strategy by coordinating with all relevant stakeholders considering a highly complex financial services environment.
- Assess any quality gaps and keep the stakeholders informed in timely manner and suggest solution to resolve any blockers.
- Identify areas of improvement and establish a continuous improvement process.
- Strategize and govern all quality aspects of technology delivery with a key outcome to reduce the cost of change and increase quality into production.
- Manage the full end to end testing lifecycle of assigned projects in a multi-vendor and in distributed delivery environment.
- Define and deploy defect preventive process and measures in distributed delivery model across projects.
- Manage the defect management activities such as prioritization, defect triage meeting with business & technology, work with relevant stakeholders to agree on workaround for outstanding defects and defects resolutions.
- Facilitate the development, implementation, and adherence of testing department standards in partnership with other test team leadership.
- Setup and implement the required test metrics across functional and automation deliverables, covering end-to-end processes.
People Leadership
- Support the project team in leveraging testing tools to improve team productivity and effectiveness (Test Management, Defect Management, and Test Automation, Performance Testing).
- Participate and guide the planning of SIT, UAT and other testing cycles across projects.
- Provide clear roles and responsibilities to testing team across programs and projects and ensure best practises, methods, templates, and tools are implemented as per MUFG guidelines.
- Coach and mentor team members to strengthen testing process related skill.
- Lead and motivate the team to deliver quality and encourage team to strive for continuous improvement of both functional and automation streams.
Governance & Risk
- Review and sign-off of testing artefacts like Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Evidence and Test Summary Reports.
- Liaise with project team members including Development teams, technical analyst, Solution Designers, Architects, PMs, and other internal and external stakeholders to mitigate project delivery risk.
- Review reports produced by the vendor, provide guidance, evolve process, and actively participate in resolving issues/roadblocks to testing progress.
- Governance of Quality Assurance across full spectrum of the SDLC including Unit, SIT, end-to-end, Regression, Business (UAT) and PVT.
- Support MUFG Group assurance programs that deliver effective risk management and compliance practices.
The above list of key accountabilities is not an exhaustive list and may change from time-to-time based on business needs.
Experience & Personal Attributes
Experience
- Minimum 12+ years of experience in a testing role with 3+ years in managing an end-to-end module, for complex to medium E2E integrated financial platform.
- Strong end-to-end test management background within a fast-paced business and in complex IT application landscape.
- Experience in Test Management tools like ALM, Confluence, Zephyr etc.
- Working experience in an Agile scrum environment, expert in JIRA and Confluence or similar tools.
- Hands on experience in improving Testing & QA capabilities with a strong awareness of industry developments and best practice.
- Experience in building process, practices, and test team in distributed delivery model.
- Experience in Superannuation/Insurance/BFSI domain is highly desirable.
- Experience in API testing, Mobile app testing, Automation testing is highly desirable.
- Certification in Domain/Testing/Delivery methodology like ISTQB, Agile is highly desirable.
- Exposure in managing a multi-vendor engagement.
Personal Attributes
- Demonstrate strong thought leadership, strategic thinking, and effective communication in driving and uplifting quality through all stages of the SDLC and within the Test practice.
- Strong commercial / business acumen.
- Excellent communicator and mentor.
- Experience of working on complex/challenging projects.
- Flexible, Self-motivated, team player able to self-organise and deliver on commitments.
- Share experience with other team members and contribute to the learning culture.
- Capable of managing high pressure and short timelines, with the willingness to be flexible
We are looking for an experienced Test Delivery Lead who is driven and passionate about Testing and Quality, who can lead a team of testers in the analysis, design, planning, preparation, and execution of testing across an enterprise scale application landscape. A strong background in super, insurance and financial systems will be highly advantageous.
Key Accountabilities and main responsibilities
Strategic Focus
- Manage and be accountable for a team, catering to portfolio of programs/projects to ensure successful delivery and taking business on the quality journey.
- Formulate an effective, practical but robust Test Strategy by coordinating with all relevant stakeholders considering a highly complex financial services environment.
- Assess any quality gaps and keep the stakeholders informed in timely manner and suggest solution to resolve any blockers.
- Identify areas of improvement and establish a continuous improvement process.
- Strategize and govern all quality aspects of technology delivery with a key outcome to reduce the cost of change and increase quality into production.
- Manage the full end to end testing lifecycle of assigned projects in a multi-vendor and in distributed delivery environment.
- Define and deploy defect preventive process and measures in distributed delivery model across projects.
- Manage the defect management activities such as prioritization, defect triage meeting with business & technology, work with relevant stakeholders to agree on workaround for outstanding defects and defects resolutions.
- Facilitate the development, implementation, and adherence of testing department standards in partnership with other test team leadership.
- Setup and implement the required test metrics across functional and automation deliverables, covering end-to-end processes.
People Leadership
- Support the project team in leveraging testing tools to improve team productivity and effectiveness (Test Management, Defect Management, and Test Automation, Performance Testing).
- Participate and guide the planning of SIT, UAT and other testing cycles across projects.
- Provide clear roles and responsibilities to testing team across programs and projects and ensure best practises, methods, templates, and tools are implemented as per MUFG guidelines.
- Coach and mentor team members to strengthen testing process related skill.
- Lead and motivate the team to deliver quality and encourage team to strive for continuous improvement of both functional and automation streams.
Governance & Risk
- Review and sign-off of testing artefacts like Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Evidence and Test Summary Reports.
- Liaise with project team members including Development teams, technical analyst, Solution Designers, Architects, PMs, and other internal and external stakeholders to mitigate project delivery risk.
- Review reports produced by the vendor, provide guidance, evolve process, and actively participate in resolving issues/roadblocks to testing progress.
- Governance of Quality Assurance across full spectrum of the SDLC including Unit, SIT, end-to-end, Regression, Business (UAT) and PVT.
- Support MUFG Group assurance programs that deliver effective risk management and compliance practices.
The above list of key accountabilities is not an exhaustive list and may change from time-to-time based on business needs.
Experience & Personal Attributes
Experience
- Minimum 12+ years of experience in a testing role with 3+ years in managing an end-to-end module, for complex to medium E2E integrated financial platform.
- Strong end-to-end test management background within a fast-paced business and in complex IT application landscape.
- Experience in Test Management tools like ALM, Confluence, Zephyr etc.
- Working experience in an Agile scrum environment, expert in JIRA and Confluence or similar tools.
- Hands on experience in improving Testing & QA capabilities with a strong awareness of industry developments and best practice.
- Experience in building process, practices, and test team in distributed delivery model.
- Experience in Superannuation/Insurance/BFSI domain is highly desirable.
- Experience in API testing, Mobile app testing, Automation testing is highly desirable.
- Certification in Domain/Testing/Delivery methodology like ISTQB, Agile is highly desirable.
- Exposure in managing a multi-vendor engagement.
Personal Attributes
- Demonstrate strong thought leadership, strategic thinking, and effective communication in driving and uplifting quality through all stages of the SDLC and within the Test practice.
- Strong commercial / business acumen.
- Excellent communicator and mentor.
- Experience of working on complex/challenging projects.
- Flexible, Self-motivated, team player able to self-organise and deliver on commitments.
- Share experience with other team members and contribute to the learning culture.
- Capable of managing high pressure and short timelines, with the willingness to be flexible
Job Classification
Industry: Financial ServicesFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA,
Role Category: Quality Assurance and Testing
Role: QA Team Manager
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: Mufg PensionLocation(s): Pune
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Keyskills: Manager Quality Assurance Test strategy Testing tools Performance testing Agile Risk management JIRA Project delivery SDLC Financial services
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