QA Test Lead
- Full-time
Company Description
About Eurofins
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.
In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 47,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.
In 2019, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 4.56 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
About Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd (A CMMI Level 3 Company) is a 100% full owned subsidiary of Eurofins. This young captive centre located in Bangalore was established in 2012 to be the largest IT Solutions group within Eurofins to cater to all the internal IT business needs. The primary focus of IT Solution group will be to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, Ecommerce solutions, ERP/CRM system & B2B platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories and businesses.
EITS India is a Young, Dynamic and Growing organization with lot of career growth prospects. We strongly believe that ‘Our people are our assets’ and we ensure that all our staff are provided with great work environment, good benefits and challenging Global projects to enable a fulfilling career. We are committed to provide enriching experience to our employees.
Job Description
POSITION TITLE: QA Test Lead Engineer
REPORTING TO: Manager
REPORTING LOCATION: Bangalore
WORKING LOCATION: Bangalore
SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES:
- Required to lead the Testing Activities of a Scrum team and also be responsible for all the Test Deliverables for the Scrum Team.
- Write test scripts and focus on the more complex scenarios. support the junior automation engineers with coding guidelines and with technical support when they have questions
- Running and keep on running the scripts on a day to day basis. Scripts need to run always on different environments and SW versions. This means that scripts need to be hardened and written very well.
- Since we work in feature teams the team needs to make sure the work is done so sporadic manual testing might be part of the scope to meet milestones.
POSITION & OBJECTIVES:
Job description:
- Design, develop, deploy and support web applications and devise solutions as per business requirements.
- Understand the requirements, transform those into test cases and also execute and perform a review of test cases.
- Collaboratively work with different teams for test data and end to end testing.
- Should be the SPOC for the team he/she is assigned for.
- Ensure that activities are coordinated with all stakeholders according to schedule while ensuring that testing activities are thoroughly documented by the testing lifecycle and engineering activities.
- Provide effective communication regarding issues, objectives, initiatives and performance to plan
- Work with the QA Manager and colleagues to define strategy associated with Functional and Integration Testing.
- Support the Planning of test schedules by project scope/delivery dates.
- Participate in user story reviews to provide input on functional requirements, Acceptance Criteria, schedules, or potential problems.
- Should have good knowledge of Defect Management process and be able to perform Root Cause Analysis of Defects.
- Should be able to Mentor team members and monitor their activities.
- Should drive Daily Status Calls, Meetings with Stakeholders, Sprint Walkthroughs/Reviews, and Grooming Meetings.
- Work closely Application SPOCs.
- Should assist the Automation activity and be the SPOC for the automation team to reach out to.
- Maintain, modify, optimize and extend existing solutions as a part of support and performance optimization projects, if any.
- Working together with other team members to ensure high quality of delivered solutions.
- Ensuring good practices and high-quality standards are implemented and followed.
- Help other teams to link highest-level concepts and actionable requirements.
- Performing other related duties as assigned.
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- 6-10 Years of overall work experience as a Tester.
- At least 2-4 years of experience as Test Lead
- Understand overall requirements and prepare automation strategy (framework, priorities, planning which is to be integrated with overall project plan)
- Prepare Test schedules by project scope/delivery dates.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Collaboration with Software Architect(s) and other technical groups within Eurofins (Includes design, documentation, prototyping and validation)
TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED
- Strong experience in Test automation (Javascript / Python) or other scripting/programming languages.
- Experience with Flutter is a plus
- Knowledge in Database (MSSQL).
- Participate in user story reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
- Understand the requirements, transform those in to test cases
- Should have good communication and be able to interact with the Testing and Dev teams with ease.
- Should be self-driven and ability to deliver with little monitoring.
PERSONAL SKILLS
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal/written Communication, Interpersonal and Presentation skills. And can explain complex functional/technical concepts with ease (via diagrams, flowcharts etc.,).
- Should be a self-motivated, independent, detail-oriented, responsible team-player and exhibit exceptional relationship skills
- Candidate to have a do-it-done attitude; the ability to think critically; enjoy working with teams spread globally and across cultures; a desire to learn in new areas; and the discipline to pay attention to deadlines, details and quality.
- Experience in Agile (Scrum) methodologies needed.
- Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment.
- Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software is necessary
Methodology skills
- AGILE Development (Scrum)
PREFERED CANDIDATES:
- The successful candidate will have a self-motivated, get-it-done attitude; the ability to think critically; enjoy working with teams spread globally and across cultures; a desire to learn in new areas; and the discipline to pay attention to deadlines, details and quality.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills to interact with the team in Europe
TRAVEL: There may be opportunity to travel to Europe (5%) for any Knowledge Transition.
Qualifications
- Engineering Degree in Computer Science/MCA or any other Bachelor’s degree with the relevant experience.