Performance Architect | 6 to 12 years | Pune

Job Description

• Deliver Test Architect responsibilities over multiple testing projects in Personal Banking. Provide support to QA leadership team by taking ownership of some of the key strategic initiatives.
• Brings in industry expertise and knowledge into testing to drive innovation and new capabilities for testing. Play anchor role in test design, test scope definition, test automation and quality metrics.
• Demonstrates strong understanding of application(s) and business domain(s)
• Able to Interface effectively with business and technical stakeholders for requirements and design clarifications
• Experience in conducting static testing to identify defects early in life cycle
• Identifies reusable and innovative ways of testing approaches and methods for testing application or domain
• Drives test team to adhere to test schedule in conjunction with project schedule, Collaborates with other work streams to recover slippages
• Assesses and effectively communicates impact on the existing systems/business processes and estimates the effort involved in implementing the change
• Takes unpopular stands if necessary to deliver the best outcome
• Encourages direct and tough debate but isn't afraid to end it and move on
• Energised by challenges
• Risks are foreseen and raised at appropriate forum
• Suggests mitigation for Risks identified
• Exposure on working and guiding in a team environment on testing projects
• Domain Knowledge in Retail Banking and testing experience in one or more core banking product platforms/systems such as Accounting and clearing / General Ledger, Savings & Insurance products, Online/mobile payments, Customer & Risk systems, and Debit Cards and payments.
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently on all aspects of the testing lifecycle
• Experience in working on multiple projects of 6 months duration or more with global teams.

Primary Skills

• Deliver Test Architect responsibilities over multiple testing projects in Personal Banking. Provide support to QA leadership team by taking ownership of some of the key strategic initiatives.
• Experience in HP Quality centre, JIRA or Agile Central (Rally) and similar test management tools.
• Hands-on experience in one or more technical areas of Personal Banking technology platforms.
• Mainframe - COBOL, IMS, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, TWS, File-Aid, REXX
• Open Systems and tools – Selenium, Java, Jenkins, J2EE, Web-services, APIs, XML, JSON, Parasoft/SoaTest –API testing

Secondary Skills

• Mid-Tier technology – MQ, WebSphere, UNIX, API 3 rd party hosting platforms
• Good Knowledge of various industry standard testing terminologies, processes and tools
• Strong analytical capacity.
• Aptitude to quickly learn new tools/apps/processes/domains.