Senior QA Engineer

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.

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Roles & Responsibility -

• Drive and own the test approach for each story delivered
• Driving discussion and ownership around Unit, Functional, performance, and security
• Take an ‘automation first’ approach to all stories, using discussion, debate and risk to find the right balance between automated and exploratory testing.
• Enable and support each person in the squad to think quality and test at the right time
• Drive the collaborative approach by organizing test mobbing and pairing sessions with the squad
• Attend and contribute in all agile ceremonies, and proactively support all members
• Identify risk at every stage and communicate the impact of the risks so that everyone can understand, and decisions can be made by Product Owner, DM, and the squad
• Ensure the outcomes of testing are easily turned into information for others to digest, and use your knowledge and experiences from being a Test Analyst to help and steer others to make the right decisions on risk
• Work with the QA Principal to be aware of software industry developments and continually review testing processes and strategies to ensure that the squad remain current Involvement in the story inception ensuring a test-driven approach is adopted on each piece of work
• That this approach covers all aspects of quality. Functional, Non-functional, internal and external quality of the product

Drive and own the test approach for each story delivered

Driving discussion and ownership around Unit, Functional, performance, and security

Take an ‘automation first’ approach to all stories, using discussion, debate and risk to find the right balance between automated and exploratory testing.

Enable and support each person in the squad to think quality and test at the right time

Drive the collaborative approach by organizing test mobbing and pairing sessions with the squad

Attend and contribute in all agile ceremonies, and proactively support all members

Identify risk at every stage and communicate the impact of the risks so that everyone can understand, and decisions can be made by Product Owner, DM, and the squad

Ensure the outcomes of testing are easily turned into information for others to digest, and use your knowledge and experiences from being a Test Analyst to help and steer others to make the right decisions on risk

Work with the QA Principal to be aware of software industry developments and continually review testing processes and strategies to ensure that the squad remain current Involvement in the story inception ensuring a test-driven approach is adopted on each piece of work

That this approach covers all aspects of quality. Functional, Non-functional, internal and external quality of the product

• 8 years’ experience in QA Leadership
• Strong experience in QA planning, including developing test strategies, schedules, and resource management.
• Familiarity with Oracle Retail applications, including Dropship, OMS, OSL, and WMS
• Strong ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, offering clear and concise reporting of testing outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of modern software testing methodologies, tools and processes
• Strong interpersonal skills that demonstrate and a curious, learning and brave approach to work
• Experience in mentoring teams in their approach to QA
• Experience working in an Agile development process
• Great exploratory testing skills and experience.
• Experience of Test Driven approaches to software engineering (ATDD, BDD & TDD)
• Experience with automation with a level of proficient in one language and have the ability to learn others
• Experience in use of tools to solve test efficiency issues, such as use of SOAP and/or REST API testing, using tools such as Postman, Swagger, SOAPUI
• Experience of non-functional testing, particularly performance and security testing

8 years’ experience in QA Leadership

Strong experience in QA planning, including developing test strategies, schedules, and resource management.

Familiarity with Oracle Retail applications, including Dropship, OMS, OSL, and WMS

Strong ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, offering clear and concise reporting of testing outcomes.

Strong knowledge of modern software testing methodologies, tools and processes

Strong interpersonal skills that demonstrate and a curious, learning and brave approach to work

Experience in mentoring teams in their approach to QA

Experience working in an Agile development process

Great exploratory testing skills and experience.

Experience of Test Driven approaches to software engineering (ATDD, BDD & TDD)

Experience with automation with a level of proficient in one language and have the ability to learn others

Experience in use of tools to solve test efficiency issues, such as use of SOAP and/or REST API testing, using tools such as Postman, Swagger, SOAPUI

Experience of non-functional testing, particularly performance and security testing

• Experience with Jira for managing test cases, bug tracking, and workflow management.
• Proficiency in using Confluence for documentation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
• Strong knowledge of SQL for querying databases, validating test data, and performing backend
• Hands-on experience with Postman for API testing, writing and executing test scripts, and analysing responses.

Experience with Jira for managing test cases, bug tracking, and workflow management.

Proficiency in using Confluence for documentation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.

Strong knowledge of SQL for querying databases, validating test data, and performing backend

Hands-on experience with Postman for API testing, writing and executing test scripts, and analysing responses.

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