Calypso QA Lead - Ampcus Incorporated

Title: Calypso QA Lead - Fixed Income/ Derivatives/ Money Markets/ Advances / LCs and Equity products (workings and lifecycle events).

Work location: Remote

Duration: Contract to Hire

Job description

STRONG CALYPSO QA LEAD. Someone who has and can lead QA teams of 10+ folks and be fully hands on and work in a multi – vendor environment most collaboratively.

Purpose:

Acts as a team lead of a Quality Assurance team and supports the QA vision to deliver consistent and value-added testing solutions that align with business needs/goals. Adheres to QA standards, applies QA methodology, develops test strategies, and ensures robust repeatable, maintainable, regression for the Calypso platform. Collaborates with technical and business teams and communicates risks and issues to ensure high quality solutions. Maintains awareness and recommends best industry practices to improve overall QA processes and enhance efficiency.

Quality Assurance Responsibilities:

· Lead QA efforts on Calypso initiatives and follow scaled Agile best practices.

· Lead in requirement analysis, design and development phases and determine testing approach for the Calypso platform.

· Leverage extensive Calypso Domain expertise to develop test plan and provide direction to the QA team for test case authoring and execution.

· Drive test automation hand-off practice and support the development of test cases in manner designed for automation (e.g. using dynamic data), and thereby significantly reduce if not eliminate manual testing

· Lead the test case peer review process and support the maintenance of authored test cases.

· Lead the test execution of developed solutions and deliver test reports. Types of testing include smoke, system, integration, regression (manual and automated), data/test-driven, and end-to-end testing.

· Develop QA close-out deliverables including requirement traceability matrix and test acceptance report to support go/no-go decision.

· Collaborate with Test Automation team to develop, optimize and enhance automated regression test suites, and coordinate automated test execution.

· Work with Business users to create and maintain test data for functional and regression testing.

· Collaborate with the Calypso development team and test automation team to evaluate new test automation tools and solutions for Calypso API and functional regression testing.

· Support and facilitate user acceptance testing.

· Lead meetings and workstreams sessions with team members, cross-functional teams, and business partners to align on business needs and deliver value.

· Lead defect triage and collaborate with business partners, internal, and/or external implementation partners on system failures, root cause analysis, and track defects to closure.

Lead Responsibilities:

· Lead a team of employees/consultants.

· Work with onsite and offshore Calypso QA team members to plan, prioritize and manage testing tasks and deliverables.

· Monitor team performance and report on metrics.

· Client training needs and provide coaching.

· Ensure that the team is consistently delivering quality solutions to the highest standards.

· Understand and communicate process methodologies used in the bank.

· Communicate timely, content relevant information to stakeholders including escalation of key issues and risks