Functional Test Lead

Stakeholder Management

• To ensure that all stakeholders are engaged in timely fashion and made aware of the overall testing strategy/process to ensure their participation in the testing phases in the relevant capacity
• To be accountable for ensuring that all test plans are agreed, required expectations are met and all sign-offs obtained from the relevant stakeholders
• In case of complex and wide testing requirements, to plan and run the testing war-room with co-located stakeholders - managing all aspects from scheduling to obtaining required sign-offs - with a tight day-to-day plan
• Socialise and agree the fix-release plans upfront with impacted stakeholders including regression and functional UAT plans

Test Strategy and Overall Testing Ownership

• Act as the owner of overall testing across all phases
• To define the overall test strategy, centrally coordinating across various business streams, technology, vendor and other stakeholders - and get agreement on the strategy from all stakeholders
• Prepare and own the detailed test plans to ensure the integrity of overall project schedule
• To review test cases ensuring completeness of UAT coverage

Communication and Change Management

• Communication with the various stakeholders at all levels - at appropriate forums - including PWGs, Periodic Test Progress Calls, Results walk-throughs, Sign-off calls etc.
• Communicate the test progress with accurate reporting on a periodic basis (daily, weekly or as per phasing) to appropriate stakeholders
• Follow up with various task owners to ensure the timely completion of tasks and any delays or risks are reported / escalated

Governance & Testing Process Improvements

• To bring in the testing best practices and to implement overall process improvements
• Push the testing automation agenda with a view to improve the productivity and to cut-short the regression testing window
• Review the lessons learned from previous releases / phases and to ensure that follow up / corrective actions are taken on time to ensure the smooth execution of upcoming test phases

• 7+ years of experience in a business facing test-lead and/or project management role
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with prior experience in running war-rooms or test-focused working groups
• Domain knowledge in FTP - from a test lead or business analyst capacity
• Familiarity with SDLC and strong insights on various testing phases, methodology and tools
• Agile Project Methodology - preferable with experience in automated regression testing
• Ability to write multi-application test strategies, test plans, and detailed test cases with expected outcome
• Experience in executing and supporting all test phases, knowledge of SQL, defect tracking and issue closures
• Experience with waterfall & agile methodologies
• Proactive, self starter, autonomous & highly organised
• Oversee all end-to-end testing activities for all phases of testing and co-ordinating with different stakeholders involved i.e. T&I, Treasury, FOT, GFS, Vendors
• Prepare, manage and walkthrough the overall test strategy / test plan with stakeholders and seek their sign off
• Track and monitor the test plan and ensure is executed as planned schedule
• Collaborate with T & I /Vendor to ensure readiness of test environments including data and follow up on bug fixes for ETA , across impacts analysis as needed
• Track & Monitor FOT/Business stakeholders test validation and help with issue resolutions
• Work closely with IT&I and Vendor teams to ensure that Test Environment is prepared with agreed test data set as per business agreements and SDF guidelines
• Ensure test scenarios/cases are prepared prior to test commencement and reviewed and signed off by FOT, test results are captured and uploaded on project SharePoint , issues are logged, tracked and followed up in Defect Management tool i.e. JIRA
• Run daily Defects call with T&I, Vendor, FOT to understand the blockers and move to resolution
• To prepare and send daily test status report on day to day testing progress to all stakeholders involved
• Prepare and get sign off from T&I/FOT/FTP Policy/ Treasury / GFS on Final test report