Current Jobs at Tezza Business Solutions Limited

Ref: JOB/15-03

Job Objective

• The Test Lead role performs planning, monitoring, and control of the testing activities on small, medium to large scale projects.
• The role assures conformity to Tezza's and Clients' testing practices and standards across all project as well as coordinating cross portfolio interactions and dependencies.
• This role working with Project Management (Test Managers or Project Managers), Application Development and multiple test teams, manages the analysis, design, planning and execution of testing for major corporate projects and initiatives.
• They lead, guide and monitor the analysis, design, implementation and execution of the test cases, test procedures and test suites and thus they must demonstrate knowledge of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and techniques to enable them manage daily workload of Test Analysts and give direction.

Level of Scope:

• Assignments will be tactical in nature.

Job Details

• Form a working relationship with the clients within which you have responsibility.
• Develop Test Plans for projects within your divisions and feed those into the project plans of the customer’s larger projects.
• Ensure suitable resources are scheduled to the testing projects to allow the testing of those projects to occur within the required time-frames.
• Work from Functional Specifications to ensure appropriate Test Scripts are prepared which cover the testing requirements of a project, and which will test the software to agreed guidelines.
• Manage testing resources to ensure accurate and precise execution of the Test Scripts and ensure documentary evidence is produced and recorded in the agreed format.
• Verify defects are effectively recorded, communicated and understood
• Ensure appropriate test environments are established and maintained.
• Develop a network of internal and external contacts to improve technical knowledge and improve communication channels.
• Produce appropriate documentation for reporting the progress of all software testing in a clear and concise format.
• Communicate effectively with the Test Managers, identifying and escalating issues in a timely manner, ensuring full details are obtained.
• Spend some of your time acting as a Software Tester, writing Test Scripts and executing those Test Scripts, either under your own direction or that of another Test Team Lead.
• Coordinate defect triage meetings for all test phases
• Mentor and provide guidance to testers
• Analyze and ensure test results and changes/defect are reflected in the test case and test cases are updated appropriately based on resolution
• Identify and recommend process improvements as necessary
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

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Reference: JOB/15-02

Job Description

• The Test Manager role has oversight of all testing activities including estimating and resource planning at the program and portfolio level.
• The role also collaborates with Project Management, Application development and multiple test teams in the planning and execution of projects.
• The Test Manager is responsible for the analysis, design, planning and execution of testing for projects and initiatives.
• The role demonstrates extensive knowledge of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and techniques for creating a high value and technically-driven Test Team that is strong, independent, formal and unbiased.
• The Test Manager conforms to Tezza Business Solutions’s testing practices and standards

Level of Scope:

• Assignments will be strategic and tactical in nature

Responsibilities/Duties

• Provide day to day leadership and direction to test teams during all test cycles
• Ensures cross functional training and self-development of test resources across projects.
• This role will publish appropriate dashboards and metrics to project teams, and coordinate across all functional teams for quality and test deliverables.
• This role will also provide continuous improvement of project test standards, guidelines and governance and participate in global test initiatives and governance.
• Overseeing execution of assigned client-specific software testing projects, tools and techniques
• Manages risk/impact analyses for the projects
• Responsible for estimation of testing effort including the creation and management of test schedule and escalation if deviation are foreseen or occur
• Responsible for the creation of project test plans and test cases
• This role will execute test cases and record defects where and when necessary
• Work with the developers to understand the technical requirement/design being built in a project
• Work with the business analyst to understand the business rules and requirements for a project
• Trace Test Cases back to requirement to verify coverage
• Validate Test Preparation of environments and verify all teams are aligned with what needs to occur to build/prepare the test environments
• Coordinate, Track and report regularly on execution of all test phases
• Coordinate defect triage meetings for all test phases
• Assist external testing resources in adopting Tezza standards and processes
• Verify defects are effectively recorded, communicated and understood
• Ensure warranty/support related changes are incorporated into all existing testwares
• Ensure re-use of existing testing documentation for new projects/releases
• Mentor and provide guidance to testers
• Analyze and ensure test results and changes/defect are reflected in the test case and test cases are updated appropriately based on resolution
• Identify and recommend process improvements as necessary
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related areas
• 5 - 8 years of test related experience including 2 - 4 years in a test leadership role.
• Capable of overseeing and coordinating a group of testers (and other project participants when working within the capacity of a Test Project Manager) on any given project.
• Will have accountability for multiple projects or a single large project.
• The ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level certification or similar certification is desirable