Lead Business Quality Assurance

About the role

Make an impact with NTT DATA Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it's a place where you can grow, belong and thrive. Your day at NTT DATA The Principal Software Quality Assurance / Testing Engineer is a highly skilled subject matter expert, responsible for managing every phase of the development process to ensure that the design and software adhere to company standards. This role consults various stakeholders in the development and execution of exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. Key responsibilities: Responsible for ensuring the planning, execution, reporting, and successful completion of QA activities for all new development cycles for various releases. Leads Agile-related user story review meetings and/or works with relevant business stakeholders and developers to understand the new or modified application functionality. Partners with the required user community (such as Regions or the Product Owner) to understand business requirements and upholds quality of for each release by ensuring a comprehensive end-to-end testing coverage. Develops and implements end-to-end test scenarios, as well as debugging and defining corrective actions. Responsible for reviewing system requirements and tracking of quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts). Leads the performing and documenting of risk analysis and record test progress and results. Performs regression testing when bugs are resolved. Works cross functionally to review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback. Creates detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases. Designs, develops, codes, and executes automation scripts. Develops standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness. Makes recommendations that will enable innovation and streamline overall testing processes. Works cross functionally to research new tools, technologies, and testing processes as well as user interfaces for consistency and functionality. Responsible for documenting established QA processes and best practices in Agile Scrum development methodology and influence the continuous improvement of the QA activities. Performs any other related task as required. To thrive in this role, you need to have: Extended expertise in software QA methodologies, tools, and processes. Interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills. Team player with good attention to detail. Excellent ability to understand and analyze complex systems Extended understanding of SQL and scripting. Extended understanding of software development process. Extended expertise in agile development such as Scrum. Extended understanding of software integrated development environments. Extended ability to handle client and customer issues tactfully and professionally. Extended understanding of object-oriented programming. Academic qualifications and certifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. Relevant certifications such as Leading SAFe would be advantageous. Required experience: Extended demonstrated hands-on testing experience in AGILE/DevOps Methodology, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery. Extended demonstrated work experience in software development. Extended demonstrated work experience in software quality assurance. Expert in working in an Agile/Scrum development process. Expertise in performance and/or security testing is a plus. Extended demonstrated hands-on experience with automated testing tools. Extended demonstrated experience working within a geographically dispersed company is desirable. Workplace type : About NTT DATA NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D. Equal Opportunity Employer NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, rac