Test Lead
Company: Cognizant United States, Cognizant Technology Solu
Location: Des Moines
Posted on: March 18, 2023
Job Description:
Test Manager Qualification: Bachelors in science , engineering
or equivalent Responsibility: Project Proposal:
- Gather requirements from the Business Analyst to understand the
client's requirements and the required skill sets.
- Analyze the time and effort required based on the initial
estimation submitted by the Test Analyst.
- Seek review inputs on resourcing and estimation from the Test
Manager.
- Create case studies to highlight experience / credentials for
the proposals.
- Address clients' queries in partnership with the BD team.
- Understand architecture design and peak volume transfer.
- Identify and assess different tools and propose the tool that
matches with the clients' requirements in collaboration with the
Project Manager. Knowledge Transition:
- Gather inputs from the business analyst and development team to
understand technology, business requirements, test data
requirements and application.
- Seek review inputs on reverse KT document from the client.
- Participate in KT session in case of new tools and
technologies.
- Participate in the client meeting to understand the
requirement.
- Design KT plan (that includes KT scope, schedule, and
deliverables like reverse KT document) and share the same with the
customer.
- Provide training to the associates as a part of reverse KT.
- Create portals to upload customer details, application and
testing artefacts.
- Seek signoff on the requirement document (eg SRD) in
coordination with different stakeholders (Development Team Lead,
Business Sponsors, Technology lead, Project Manager, BA,
Requirement Analyst).
- Create ROM (rough order magnitude) estimation to understand
feasibility of the requirement.
- Support the Test Manager in performing high level impact
analysis.
- Only For Onsite Coordinator: Provide support to BA at client
side for identification/documentation of the requirements based on
the experience. Test Requirement Study:
- Understand and analyze the requirements (from the requirement
document) to identify the testable requirements.
- Prioritize the requirements based on the time required.
- Create the traceability matrix.
- Create requirement query tracker (or clarification document) to
track any clarification.
- Identify gaps in the requirements and take actions to close the
same.
- Create ambiguity document (or clarification document) to track
any clarification.
- Monitor the defects logged at the requirement stage.
- Identify gaps in the requirements and take actions to close the
same.
- If requested, identify and document the test data requirement
for the complicated projects.
- Review test data, screen flow documents etc Evaluate and
identify various tools to aid test execution based on the
understanding of the requirement. Test Planning:
- Create the test strategy (that includes release date, type of
testing, scope of the project, detail explanation of particular
release, risk, critical defects) for small and medium projects.
- Seek review from the onsite team and seek sign off from the
client on the same.
- Create/Review test plans (covering scope, risk, responsibility,
timelines, resource (Man /Machine), deployment, exit/entry criteria
etc).
- Identify the skill sets required and resources for the project.
- Seek review inputs from different stakeholders (Business
Sponsors, Development Leads, Business Analyst, Project Managers).
- Seek sign off from the client on the same.
- Review/Create detailed estimate based on the scope and
understanding of requirements.
- Communicate testing phase timelines to the team and seek
approval from the Project Manager.
- Design an incident process in case of any environmental outage.
Test Design, Development & Execeution:
- 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.
- Identify & create Test data required for the testing activity.
- Perform System test Execution.
- Track the downtime and report the same to the client.
- Review the test results and clarify doubts/query raised by team
during execution.
- Review the defects logged by team and assign it to the right
owner.
- Support the team/ client in conducting UAT/BUT if applicable.
- Perform sanity testing to ensure system readiness for testing.
- Upload the test cases in the QC.
- Validate readiness of the test environment for test execution.
- Prepare test lab for test execution in QC.
- Seek sign off from the client at various stages of the cycle as
required.
- Monitor various builds delivered by the development team.
- Organize and conduct defect triage meeting.
- 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.
- Monitor server counters (eg CPU utilization , memory
utilization etc). Process Optimization/ Improvements and Knowledge
Management:
- Conduct/Coordinate training on clients' applications to ensure
training for the resource.
- Periodically, assess the technical capability of resources to
ensure the selected resources are up to mark.
- Organize the boot camp for new entrants.
- Coordinate with team members, to upload the relevant document
in knowledge management portals and keep it updated with the latest
document.
- Select the team to create knowledge artefacts (eg collaterals,
reusable assets) to drive knowledge management.
- Conduct CCP training with the help of academia and share the
results with clients.
- Improvise already existing processes based on the experience.
- Institutionalize systems and processes in place to implement
innovation suggestion made by the team (eg adoption of Cognizant
proprietary best practices / tools, process optimization like usage
of tools, automation, opportunity to utilize NLR products etc).
- Identify the time and cost savings made due to adoption of the
best practices.
- Document the deferred defect information that will be captured
during the next release. Project Management & Release Management:
- Review the daily deliverables and share it with the
stakeholders appropriately.
- Create and share weekly status reports and daily status reports
with the team/ relevant stakeholders.
- Facilitate calls between onsite and offshore teams to discuss
the project status.
- Identify resources based on the estimation and required skill
set.
- (Only For Maintenance/Enhancements Project) Create estimation
for enhancements based on the understanding of requirement.
- Perform POCs on the tools (eg accelerators, performance
enhancers ) if required.
- Coordinate with the release manager to keep abreast with the
various activities in the test environment (eg build schedule) and
to ensure the right components move to the production. Audit:
- Review all deliverables to ensure Test process protocols/
internal quality processes are meticulously followed in project.
- Participate in audit at various stages to check for adherence
to the CTS processes and guidelines.
- Take appropriate actions on NCs/Obs reported (if any). Metric
Analysis & Reporting:
- Prepare daily / weekly metrics / SLA reports.
- Followup with the team to ensure that all metrics have been
recorded correctly and at the right frequency for the audits
conducted internally.
- Identify deviations and alert Test Manager on risks.
- Report reasons for deviations.
- Provide periodic update on the metrics to the client via Daily
Status Reports/Weekly Status Reports/Monthly Status Reports. Defect
Prevention/ Leakage Retrospection:
- Conduct root cause analysis of the defects (UAT,
rejected/duplicate defects etc) Create test closure summary reports
(covering defects passed or failed ).
- Coordinate with the stakeholders to make gono go decision based
on test results and test closure summary report.
- Schedule and Conduct Retrospection meetings with the stake
holders.
- Document the lessons learnt(for the next testing
phase/projects). People Management:
- Conduct goal setting, performance apprais. Must Have Skills
- ETL Validation
- Azure DevOps
- Selenium Good To Have Skills
Keywords: Cognizant United States, Cognizant Technology Solu, Des Moines , Test Lead, Other , Des Moines, Iowa
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