**Test Manager**
**Qualification**:
Graduate (Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or related field)
** Responsibility**:
**Test Requirement Analysis**:
- Create/modify/review Master Test Strategy docuement for large engagements.
- Create/update/review Test Estimations, Project/ Sprint Planning effort.
- Leverage previous project experience/learning like Retrospection Report, Lesson Learnt for better requirement analysis.
- Review architecture & design work products by adopting White Box testing techniques to identify defects by leveraging predefined checklist and cognizant solution accelerators(if any).
**Test Strategy and Test Planning**:
- Create test strategy (that includes release date, types of testing, scope of the project, detail explanation of particular release, RAID Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies etc).
- Gather inputs from the client (eg Types of testing, Development teams, Client managers etc).
- Prepare test plan covering timelines, resource (Man /Machine) deployment (How it will be tested).
- Seek signoff on the test plan.
- Involve Project/ Sprint Planning to define the sprint goals, scrum review meetings, identify the product backlogs & provide risks/issues to scrum team for quicker remediation.
- Review & seek signoff from customer on Retrospection Report, Lesson Learnt for every release.
**Test Design Techniques (Design principles/tools/patterns)**:
- Review the test scenarios and seek review as required.
- Track the root cause of the review comments and take actions to resolve them.
- Review the test cases and traceability matrix to ensure total coverage of requirements.
- Track the downtime and report the same to the client.
- Support the team/ client in conducting UAT/BUT if applicable.
- Perform sanity testing to ensure system readiness for testing.
- Upload the test cases.
- Validate readiness of the test environment for test execution.
- Prepare test lab for test execution.
- Seek sign off from the client at various stages of the cycle as required.
**Only For Onsite Coordinator**:
- Support Business Lead at client side to perform UAT.
- If requested identify the test data for UAT.
- Create Run Plan document that captures priority of test cases based on complexity.
**Coding Practices & Defect Management**:
- Posses holistic view of quality Domain, User experience, Black box, White box testing.
- Able to estimate and commit task level effort and deliver activities on time.
- Review the defects logged by team and assign it to the right owner.
- Effective technical communication by participating in architectural/design reviews.
- Speak the developer language.
- Support Quality Assurance goals.
- Adhere to all customer standards, policies and governance practices.
- Comprehensive understanding of full development lifecycle and is actively involved in all phases.
- Involvement with development teams, architects early in the project life cycle to identify the dependencies on architecture design, low level design components & coding standards, test data dependencies, environment dependencies etc.
**Test Execution (Automation/Specialized testing)**:
- Design & implement bestinclass automation framework based on AUT.
- Review the test results and clarify doubts/query raised by team during execution.
- Prepare Test summary Report and share the same for review/ Review the test results/test reports submitted by the test analyst.
- Capture lessons learnt and the best practices adopted.
- Periodically generate metrics based on the audience.
- Review metrics to identify areas for process optimization.
- Create robust test automation scripts.
- Web Services Design the Web Services testing framework.
- DevOps Define, deploy & monitoring metrics configuration.
- Has expert knowledge of multithreading & other QE tools & technology.
- Discussion with the development, release & deployment team stakeholders to make gono go decision based on test results and test closure summary report.
- Possess specialist knowlege on Continous integration/deployment & delivery using industry best tools & technologies.
- Perform Frequent monitoring & Failure analysis will be done.
- Perform Script fixing for any errors/issues.
- Status is shared to onsite across all teams.
- Frequent Optimization /Maintenance.
**Technology consulting Research & analysis**:
- Code quality, coverage & productivity analysis to ensure all areas of program are exercised by test suites.
**People Management**:
- Organize the boot camp for new entrants.
- Develop and sustain positive relationships with peers.
- Identify training needs of team members.
- Identify, groom, reward and develop high performers.
- Resolve escalated conflicts and grievances.
**Knowledge & Innovation Management**:
- Mentor/coach the team to create knowledge artefacts (eg collaterals, reusable assets) to drive knowledge management.
- Improvise already existing processes bas
