Test Quality Engineer, IBM Corporation, New York, NY (Up to 40% telecommuting permitted):
- Test applications in the Financial Services domain leveraging AI (artificial intelligence), Automation, UAT and Integration Testing.
- Define test strategy, test plan preparation, requirement analysis, test result and metrics analysis, prepare status reports, and root cause analysis.
- Manage global testing teams.
- Work on test automation related activities that include AI and other tools such as FAST, with the goal of converting manual cases into automated scripts.
- Create resource or capacity plans and provide an analysis and estimate of upcoming projects to determine the team’s capacity and allocation to each agile squad.
- Monitor quality assurance and risk management by tracking tests and defects to uphold quality standards and mitigate risks.
- Act as the primary client contact for test-related matters, interface daily with clients to align objectives and maintain project standards.
- Create comprehensive test artifacts and provide leadership with regular updates and insights for decision-making.
- Responsible for process improvement and training including leading initiatives to improve processes and conduct training sessions to enhance team skills.
- Manage ALM tools and Jira workflows, track KPIs, and reporting progress.
- Coordinate test environments and vendors to meet project needs.
- Collaborate with development, analysis, and project teams to integrate testing seamlessly.
- Lead the development and execution of test strategies for critical banking programs, ensuring alignment with project goals and industry best practices.
- Ensure test strategies provide clear guidelines and approach for the UAT (User acceptance team), ensuring proper execution within each Agile squad per PO expectations.
- Attend scrum and agile cadence meetings to ensure test quality; review results with product owners for transparency.
- Create scorecards for each squad and release to evaluate performance, identify best actions, and apply lessons learned to future releases.
- Incorporate the latest automation tools and AI practices in optimizing test cases and execution strategies that will increase testing capacity, coverage and accuracy.
- Utilize: Scrum Framework, Jira, User Acceptance Testing, Selenium, SQL, Agile Methodology, Application Lifecycle Management.
Required: Master’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science or related (employer will accept a Bachelor's degree plus five (5) years of progressive experience in lieu of a Master’s degree) and one (1) year of experience as a Business Analyst, QA/Test Analyst or related. One (1) year of experience must include utilizing Scrum Framework, Jira, User Acceptance Testing, Selenium, SQL, Agile Methodology, Application Lifecycle Management. $193199 to $225000 per year. Full time. V221.
Master’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, Computer Science or related (employer will accept a Bachelor's degree plus five (5) years of progressive experience in lieu of a Master’s degree) and one (1) year of experience as a Business Analyst, QA/Test Analyst or related. One (1) year of experience must include utilizing Scrum Framework, Jira, User Acceptance Testing, Selenium, SQL, Agile Methodology, Application Lifecycle Management.