Sr. Qa Test Lead

About Us:

At Tech Mahindra (Tech Mahindra | Connected World, Connected Experiences), we live the philosophy of connected world and connected experiences. We thrive on change that is powered by the intelligent symphony of technology and humans designing meaningful and sustainable experiences. Consumer ‘experiences’ are driving and disrupting industries like never before. Businesses must build seamless yet simple enterprises that collaborate, synergize, and drive the change. Change that connects us all and empowers us to deliver experiences that span across the digital, the physical, the convergent, and everything in between. That’s when truly connected experiences manifest.

Extraordinary is when experiences come together – a continuous convergence of digital technologies, touchpoints, and most importantly people. It’s time to reimagine, reinvent, and revolutionize business models & operations as well as to transform enterprises into living, breathing, and connected businesses. We are the Digital Change makers who strive to change the way the world, communities, businesses, and humans interact digitally. We are harnessing the power of change, brought in by technologies, that makes it the most exciting time to be alive in the human history. Our universe, as we build it, disrupt it, and redesign it, is powering the digital change.

Tech Mahindra represents the connected world, offering innovative and customer-centric information technology experiences, enabling Enterprises, Associates, and the Society to Rise. It has 150,000+ professionals working for 1000+ Global Customers (including Fortune 500 companies) in 90 Countries.

About the role:

You will play a pivotal role in the software delivery process to deliver superior quality software solutions to an international market.

We are looking for a hands-on senior quality assurance analyst to lead POSH system/integration testing with emphasis on ATM functionality. The position will entail interacting with other QA analysts, business analysts, project leaders/managers, programmers, and programmer analysts to fully define and document testing requirements, documentation needs, meeting corporate policy requirements with respect to testing efforts and efficient execution of test plans to meet demanding schedule requirements.

As a part of the POSH business unit, you will be instrumental in managing testing efforts, provide guidance/oversight to the group (both development and business partners), manage the testing scheduling, and execution of the testing plans to ensure meeting targeted delivery dates with a high level of quality.

Must have skills:

• A good understanding of the financial industry, self-service financial products, switching, transaction processing and settlement and reconciliation.
• Extensive experience following testing processes and methodologies in a QA role.
• Proficient working in a Microsoft Windows environment, web-based applications, and dealing with hardware and software compatibility issues.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and fault isolation skills.
• Community College or higher, specializing in Computer Science related studies (or equivalent work experience), with at least five 5 full years of related work experience.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL statements, with DB2 knowledge considered an asset.
• Extensive experience with formal testing methodology and software failure analysis.
• Experience in ATM functionality testing
• Outstanding written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
• Experience utilizing payment related test tools such as Paragon ATM simulator, ADVT, MTIP, transaction simulators.
• 3+ years in a QA Lead role
• Extensive knowledge of payment industry standards such as ISO8583, EMV, PCI

Good to have skills:

• Participate as an active member of a small group.
• Strong attention to detail, self-starter with the ability to motivate self and co-workers.
• Ability to work independently under limited direction.
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2 databases
• Can-do attitude with a focus on meeting tight delivery dates with impeccable quality.
• Banking/Financial industry experience.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• UAT defect tracking.
• Gatekeeping efforts to ensure corporate policy is maintained from a testing perspective.
• Reviewing user requirements documents to ensure that requirements are testable.
• Complete testing via ATM simulators (Paragon) and network testing with other simulators.
• Clearly communicate with other teams to understand and define testing efforts.
• Validating that user expectations are achieved during the testing process.
• Create/maintain multiple test environments and test data sets.
• Creating related documentation – user guides, release notes, etc.
• Develop/create test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports on multiple projects of varying size.

Tech Mahindra is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We promote and support a diverse workforce at all levels of the company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence, and performance of the essential functions of their positions. Tech Mahindra provides accommodations for employees with disabilities. If you require a specific accommodation because of a disability (whether temporary or permanent in nature), please contact recruitment point of contact so that arrangements can be made for reasonable accommodations to be in place during the application, interview, and assessment process.