The role is more autonomous and likely to involve more complex test requirements and proactive issue recognition and resolution. Business and technical knowledge should be apparent in pragmatic decision making

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Participates in software design discussions, reviews and test strategy sessions
• Creates test data and maintains regression test suites
• Proficiency in developing, maintaining, executing, reviewing and enhancing comprehensive test plan and test cases to cover functional and non-functional tests (incl performance, load and volume tests)
• Collaborating closely with the Product and Development teams to determine requirements, designs and dependencies, including automation
• Report, research, analyses and validates complex defects with consistent high quality
• Proactive in issue and risk escalation, tracking, owning and resolution throughout test cycles
• Communicating testing status on a timely manner to QA lead
• Competency in creating complex testing artifacts with high quality and capability to work in a complex or distributed testing environment
• Provide test estimates and schedule
• Develop, maintain and execute test automation
• Contribute in retrospectives and defect escape analysis for projects accomplished
• Participate in improvement initiatives within QA and EXPERIAN SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
• Design and implement testing strategies specifically for cloud-based applications and services.
• Ensure comprehensive testing coverage for cloud infrastructure, including security, scalability, and reliability.
• Utilize cloud-based testing tools and platforms to enhance test automation and efficiency.
• Monitor and analyze cloud performance metrics to identify potential issues and optimize testing processes.
• Collaborate with cloud engineers to integrate testing processes seamlessly into the cloud deployment pipeline.

• Good knowledge of relevant computing platforms and automated test tools

• Strong knowledge of Quality Assurance methodologies, including automation and performance testing and other specialist areas

• Ideally development or good technical skills

• Good automation skills at intermediate level

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

• Good estimation skills

• Good time management skills

• Good oral and written communication skills

• Good influencing skills

• Strong attention to detail

• Pragmatic decision making based on business awareness

• Positive demeanor