Senior Testing Analyst

Not Applicable

Qualification:

Responsibility:

Knowledge Transition :

• Understand the highlevel requirements and customer technology landscape (ETL/ BI tools) through review of documents (eg Component Design Document/ Requirements document).

• Document the understanding as part of the reverse KT.

• Seek signoff from the client.

• Partner with the Business Analyst to provide suggestions on the requirements to drive clarity based on experience in earlier projects.

• Update/Review KT documents created by Test Analyst.

• Seek review of updated documents with Business Analyst.

• Create an induction manual and share it with the onsite on need basis.

Test Requirements :

• Study Organize and drive the requirement walkthrough session.

• Analyze the requirements and brainstorm with the team to identify the gaps.

• Validate the requirements for testability.

• Identify the preliminary test data requirements.

• Seek clarification on requirement if any and update the clarification tracker with the same.

• Prepare/Review the data flow diagrams.

• Seek clarification on the requirements from the customer and participate in the requirement discussion with the customer , if required.

• Perform Proof of concepts or evaluate different tools( ETL/BI Tools) if required.

• Prepare high level flow documents, if required.

• Document of understanding and Requirement Traceability Matrix based on further inputs received from the customer during the study phase.

• Share updated documents with the stakeholders.

• Followup on query logs & ensure inputs from query logs are incorporated into KT documents.

• EIM QA : Seek inputs from the stakeholders on the data sources and the quality of data.

• Gather inputs on the data source analysis and data profiling results from the client.

• Understand the impact of data quality on the already captured requirements.

• Participate in the business data mapping meetings to understand the requirements.

• Participate in the data quality meeting to understand the requirements related to data cleansing.

• BI Coordinate with the EIM QA team in case of any discrepancy in the data quality.

Test Planning :

• Provide inputs to the Test Lead to create test strategy (that includes release date, types of testing, scope of the project, detail explanation of particular release, risk etc).

• Gather inputs from the client (eg Types of testing, Development teams, Client managers etc).

• Prepare test plan covering timelines, resource (Man /Machine) deployment (How it will be tested).

• Seek signoff on the test plan.

• Provide Test Environment Requests.

• Identify need for test automation along with Test Lead.

• Provide inputs exit/entry criteria and the functionality to be tested.

• Incorporate the previous learning from the earlier test cases in the current test plan.

• Provide inputs from EIM data quality.

EIM QA:

BI QA:

Test Design :

• Identify the test scenarios based on the understanding of systems, interfaces and application.

• Identify end to end business critical scenarios.

• Create/Review the test scenarios (created by the Test Analyst) and RTM.

• Validate with BA to ensure comprehensiveness.

• Participate in customer review meetings if required.

• Based on the changes in the requirement, identify/create regression scenario and the impacted areas if required.

• Review the test cases as created by Test Analyst.

• If required, provide Test Case walkthrough and seek customer sign off inclusive of Prioritization of Test cases, Optimization options.

• Create/ review test scripts.

• Share test scripts with the Test Lead.

• Identify and validate test scenarios for automation.

• Create automation test scripts if required.

• Share created test scripts with Test Lead for review.

• Conduct pilot automation test run to validate the test scripts.

• Upload the test cases in the test management tool (eg QC).

• EIM QA Identify the reconciliation framework points for the ETL testing.

Test Development :

• Identify the test data sources based on the analysis of the requirements.

• Identify the test data requirements to ensure test coverage and share the same with the Test Analyst.

• Seek approval from the stakeholders on the same.

Test Execution/Functional Testing :

• Test the defect and update the status, if required.

• Perform high level/Sanity testing to ensure testing is intact.

• Identify defects and log failures.

• Track defects (defect log as generated from the QC tool) to closure.

• Participate in the defect triages to gather evidence for defect identification on periodic basis for defect prioritization and fix.

• Conduct acceptance testing, if required.

• Track defect metrics to ensure testing effectiveness as generated by QC tool.

• Track # of test cases executed as part of the daily tracker to ensure productivity.

• Provide automation/white box and other NFR status to Test Lead.

• Conduct performance testing for ETL batches/ reporting.

EIM QA:

Test Closure :

• Prepare Test summary Report and share the same for review.

• Identify learning from the projects.

• If requested, participate in release management to share impact of production dates.

• Periodically generate metrics based on the audience.

Production Support QA / Production Validation :

• Identify the known issues and track it in the known issue tracker.

• Share the same with the stakeholders.

• Conduct training for the new users if required.

• Participate in knowledge transition from incumbent or development stakeholders, gather and maintain test inventory (test scenarios, cases, scripts, Known issue tracker, Regression suite details etc).

• Conduct regression testing to approve minor enhancement and release etc.

• Create a deviation document capturing challenges etc.

• on need basis.

• Identify data checks for production data Perform production data checks post production release or ongoing production data validation.

• Collaborate with the support analyst within AVM team to support code development , test data preparation , test environment availability etc.

Delivery Management :

• Provide inputs on the test execution metrics to the Test Lead.

Knowledge Management :

• Create and upload the reusable assets (like Application flow document etc) on the KM portal.

• Review and Update KM documents (eg functional document for each release) as per the tool/application up gradation and customer/project needs.

• Capture and document the business/ application levels requirements details in WIKI that can be used for induction of new members to the project teams.

• Conduct KT for new team members.

• Stakeholder/ Client management Identify and track the risks along with the mitigation for closure.

• Prepare status reports (task planned for the current & next week, tasks accomplished, action items.

• analysis resource workload etc).

• Share information with the Test Lead on the project health.