About the role

Job Title: Lead Test Engineer

Job Summary

Lead Test Engineers is responsible for developing test strategy, plan, assessing the quality of specifications and technical design documents in order to ensure timely, relevant and meaningful feedback. They are involved in planning and implementing strategies, leading a team, managing defect uncovered, reporting on progress and obtaining sign-off for quality management and testing.

Basic understanding of:

Excel and visualization tool & working experience in PowerBI or Tableau or Similar
Batch and Real time data processing
Agile Process (Scrum cadences, Roles, deliverables) & working experience in either Azure DevOps, JIRA or Similar

Strong In/should have:

Understanding the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
Estimating and obtaining management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
Organizing the testing kick-off meeting
Defining the Test Strategy
Building a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.
Identifying Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills).
Developed the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
Arranging the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
Assigning task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.
End to End data warehousing systems from Data modelling to Reporting
Hands-on experience with Database and reporting testing
Hands-on experience on at least one of the Scripting/Programming languages like Unit or Python
Writing complex SQL queries & working experience in Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift or Similar
Automation testing using Java, Python etc.
Understanding and writing functional specifications/technical specifications/Business rules/Data rules.
Responsible for turning gathered requirements into test cases and scripts in both ETL & Reporting areas.
Author test strategy, test plans, test cases, and/or test scripts required to validate requirements.
Understanding and working experience in AWS Services (S3, Lambda, Athena, EMR etc)
Ensuring content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented and maintained.
Documenting, implementing, monitoring, and enforce all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization.
Reviewing the Test Cases documents.
Keeping track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
Escalating the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager / Sr. Test Manager.
Organizing the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client
Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
Strong Communication with the Client.
Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.
Tracking and preparing the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
Reviewed various reports prepared by Test engineers.
Ensuring the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
Preparing / updating the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.

KEYWORDS: BIG DATA TESTING, SQL, TEST STRATEGY, ETL, DATAWAREHOUSE, TEST PLANNING, BUG REPORTING, SYSTEM TEST, TEST LEAD, TEST MANAGER