Job Description
Department overview:
The IHS Markit Data Lake team is responsible for building a new enterprise solution to enable discovery, accessibility, understanding, usability (at scale) of our organization’s massive data assets that span multiple business lines. Easy access to data will enable thousands of data analysts and scientists at IHSM to discover new insights, realize new synergies and savings, and help create new commercial opportunities.
Position summary:
In this role, you will manage a team of talented quality assurance analysts contributing to key parts of the Data Lake mission. You will be an instrumental member in ensuring that high-quality products are delivered to market. You bring a combination of expertise in:
automation, test tools and testing methodologies
SDLC and STLC in Agile methodology
Strong Release management
operating in geographically separated functional teams
In addition, you will be responsible for maintaining and continually improving the quality standards and processes throughout the team. This is a hands on role where you will build and shape test processes.
Responsibilities:
Manage all aspects of the end to end test process including but not limited to
Manage and deliver phases of testing for multiple projects
Create test strategies and test plans
Execute and sign-off on tests
Define the scope of testing within the context of each project / cycle
Monitor and report progress to all interested parties and escalate issues as required
Ensure the acceptance criteria for each test phase is achieved
Responsible for product/release quality prior to UAT and go-live
Liaise with work stream team leads and key business stakeholders to gain issue resolution
Lead and manage the automation test function
Lead and manage all required aspects of functional and non-functional testing
Business competencies:
Education and experience
10+ years’ overall experience professionally developing and testing software products
Create and execute test strategies and plans - hands on and through delegation
Experience managing and mentoring QA teams
Demonstrated successful testing and delivery of software products
Solid experience in STLC & SDLC in an Agile framework
Solid experience in all aspects of automation - UI, API
Experience in functional & non-functional testing
Technical experience required:
Test management tools such as qTest, TestRail
Issue tracking tools mainly Jira
As the QA Automation Test Lead you will be an expert around one of the coding language Java, C#, Python (Python preferred)
BDD tools Cucumber, Behave and like
API automation and UI automation using Selenium web driver
Code config tools such as GIT, GitLab
Desirable Skills & Experience:
Knowledge of Continuous Integration (Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
AWS or Azure
A background with Big Data driven analysis and productization
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