NEC Software Solutions (India) Hiring for Associate Test Manager/Test Manager – Automation at Mumbai, Maharashtra Full Time

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NEC Software Solutions (India)

On 1st July 2021, Rave Technologies became NEC Software Solutions India. This change brought us under the global NEC Corporation brand. We are proud to be part of an organisation with 122 years of experience in evolution with technology and innovation.

We have more than 30 years of experience in providing end to end IT services across the globe and have earned a reputation for delighting our customers by consistently surpassing expectations and helping them deliver robust, market-ready software products that meet the highest standards of engineering and user experience. Supported by more than 1300 exceptionally talented manpower, we are a hub for offshore support and technology services.

We work with diverse industry verticals which include publishing, media, financial services, retail, healthcare and technology companies around the world. Our customers range from two-person startups to $bn listed companies.

For more information, visit at www.necsws.com/india.

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is recognised as a ‘Top 50 Innovative Company’ globally and the NEC Group globally provides “Solutions for Society” that promote the safety, security, fairness and equality of society. Their main goal is to help create a safer society with their innovations in technologies.

NEC Corporation has established itself as a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies while promoting the brand statement of “Orchestrating a brighter world.” NEC enables businesses and communities to adapt to rapid changes taking place in both society and the market as it provides for the social values of safety, security, fairness and efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential.

For more information, visit NEC at https://www.nec.com.

Job Description

Selected candidate will be responsible for leading and managing Test Automation initiatives across all Public Safety products.

Overall responsibility for the task management of all QA staff allocated to i2n projects, potentially including both onshore as well as offshore resources as appropriate.

Ownership of all phases of testing on projects ensuring all activities are adequately estimated, planned and monitored.

Design & Review overall Test Strategy (Manual/automation), Test plan, and Test Estimation.

Review requirements, specifications, user documentation, help files, and project documents to develop the automation scripts.

Select and develop appropriate test automation tools, applying the latest techniques in test automation.

Use risk-driven techniques to develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites for various platforms.

Build common automation framework which can be used across projects.

Work with Dev team to capture & reuse automated Unit Test Cases, Test Stubs and Drivers, and other Development test objects.

Work with the Release Engineering team to create and maintain an automated nightly build verification (“smoke”) test.

Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test objects developed and test environments used.

Monitor automation tasks across projects.

Update automation test execution status following agreed-upon processes as part of regularly-scheduled test status updates.

Provide test project status reports and metrics (e.g., Test Dashboard).

Provide accurate & precise estimates for assigned task along with confidence levels and foreseeable dependencies.

Provide technical guidance to automation test team.

Review the framework, automation scripts, results, and progress produced by automation team.

Create Automation Test proposal for new projects.

Essential:
Advanced knowledge of software testing theories/practices, and the software development lifecycle specifically experience of working in agile.

Sound expertise in Automation Testing Tools like Selenium, etc.

Experience working on one or more database products including Oracle or SQL Server

A broad background of Testing experience including: –

full life cycle testing of applications (test strategy/plan to customer acceptance)

developing test specifications from baseline documentation

developing test procedures/scripts for functional testing from test specifications.

functional test automation and/ or management of this process.

performance testing using test tools and/or management of this process (Loadrunner)

Other NFR requirements, e.g. Cross-browser, etc.

Management of risk in the test process for Enterprise Applications

Experience of working in a pressured and complex environment requiring prioritization of workloads and negotiation of delivery timescales

Good verbal and written communication and persuasion skills

Experienced in dealing with Key Stakeholders and Senior Management both internally and from other organisations/clients

Proven track record of line management and effective performance management

Ability to work to tight and often changing timescales

Keep abreast of new technologies and their applicability to work requests

Technologies

Essential

Selenium Java / Grid / Web-Driver: 4 to 6

RDBMS (Oracle/SQL server/Postgres): 2+

Agile and Waterfall methodologies: 2+

BDD: 2+

Devops – CI/CD (any tool): 2+

Github: 2+

Desirable

Performance Testing: 2+

Security Testing: 2+

SOAP UI: 2+

Reports (Crystal Reports etc.): 2+

Circle CI: 1+

Additional Information

Overall Project/Task description

Be responsible for maintaining, upgrading, & optimizing the Test Scripts.

Be responsible for On-Time Delivery and Desired Quality from Automation Test Management perspective.

Be responsible for People Management, Stakeholders Management, and Communication / Escalation Management with respect to Automation Team.

Be responsible for Appraisals, Interviews, Trainings, Recruitments, and following Organizational Compliances / Policies.

To ensure effective relationships with customers and internal staff are developed and maintained

To operate according to agreed quality procedures and standards and contribute to their improvement where required

To meet individual deadlines and to contribute effectively to the MIS team targets

To undertake any other duties required that are commensurate with the post