EY Testing-BCM Functional-Senior Manager 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

470633151

The opportunity

• As a senior manager in our quality engineering practice, you will work across our consulting teams to identify, sell, design, and lead end-to-end, complex, functional and automation test engagements in Captive and Auto Finance Sector.

• Your primary focus will be to work with our leading clients and their executive teams to define delivery approach, design, plan and execute functional and automation testing services and to support large scale agile transformation programs that drive growth and deliver long term value. You will also lead business development, driving discussions with clients and delivering market leading ideas and proposals to clients.

• You will design the approach to delivering the engagement, assembling teams to deliver each work stream. You will also manage the relationships with clients and guide the overall delivery of value to clients. You will manage multiple high performing teams and lead the development of careers of colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and direct quality engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain robust testing strategies and processes, and ensure they are properly implemented and followed.
• Participate in planning, estimation, and scheduling processes for all testing activities.
• Ensure the execution of functional, integration, system, and regression through Manual and Automation test processes on Captive and Auto Finance Sector applications and platforms like FIS, ALFA etc.
• Develop/Customise automation frameworks using BDD/Cucumber, JAVA to perform functional/regression/Data migration test cases.
• Review application designs, requirements, and specifications to create comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Implement and manage quality control standards, methods, and procedures to ensure the software meets both technical and customer requirements.
• Identify, analyse, and mitigate risks related to software quality at each phase of the software development process.
• Coordinate with different teams, including software developers and project managers, to understand and incorporate their input in the testing processes.
• Maintain a detailed record of test results and relay these results to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
• Manage resources effectively ensuring on-time delivery of products.
• Mentor, coach and train the quality engineering team, promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Continually research and implement best testing practices, tools, and methods.

Technical/Functional Skills:

• Candidate should have good knowledge on Captive and Auto Finance Sector applications and platforms like FIS, ALFA etc.
• Hands on experience in building, scaling, migrating and maintaining automation frameworks.
• Handled large scale automation transformation programs for clients from varying domains and geos.
• Create roadmaps in test automation to lead to future state.
• Craft and pioneer solutions related to Test automation.
• Focus on today’s customer problems related to automation, with an eye out for the future.
• Build stronger automation teams and mentor them towards excellence.
• Ensure decisions are made using data to prioritize and solve for problems.
• Apply new technologies to real world in-store customer problems while balancing the cost to scale.
• Work with product, technology, and design to engineer automation solutions in short cycle times.
• Exposure and experience in architecting Gen AI initiatives towards test automation

Attributes for success:

• A passion for people — our people are our greatest asset. We need you to be able to lead project teams to bring out the best in our people and help them to develop and grow.
• Ability to build exceptional client relationships — our clients are at the centre of what we do. Through the delivery of engagements, you will be responsible for managing key client relationships to make sure that we deliver quality and value.
• Ability to think strategically and to solve complex problems . You will demonstrate strong critical thinking skills focused on developing solutions, creating logical arguments or analysis, assimilating largest amounts to complex information, identifying, or anticipating issues or challenges.
• Ability to communicate , making complex systems and situations simple to understand. You’ll communicate visually, verbally and in written reports.
• Ability to manage projects –we help our client solve their complex business challenges and then deliver the test services to have a positive impact.
• Ability to learn new ideas and capabilities rapidly through self–driven learning and research. You’ll need to be able to assimilate new ideas and information rapidly, making sense of the world around you and at clients.
• Leadership capabilities that accept responsibility, build high performing teams, scale through appropriate delegation and teamwork, share clear direction, gain support and commitment from others, provide feedback openly and learn from feedback from others whilst admitting mistakes in order to learn.
• Intellectual curiosity and passionate about solving complex problems. We are looking for people who are purpose driven and ask better questions to seek better answers.

To qualify for the role, you must have.

• BE/BTech/MCA/M.Sc.
• Minimum 14-16 years of total experience in quality engineering in which 5+ years of experience in managing Medium/Large scale test engagements.
• Hands-on experience in creating and maintaining frameworks.
• Working experience in Agile environment

What we look for

• A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience, and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment.
• An opportunity to be a part of market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.
• Opportunities to work with EY practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries.

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