Software Quality Engineering Technical Lead

About PEARSON

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, with 40,000 employees in more than 80 countries working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. With revenues over €5.2 billion in 2013 we provide learning materials, technologies, assessments and services to teachers and students in order to help people everywhere aim higher and fulﬁll their true potential. We put the learner at the center of everything we do.

We at Pearson Lanka, a core part of Pearson's global Learning Technologies team. We build and manage some of the industry leading cloud based learning platforms that serve millions of students across the world. Over the years, we have built a strong Agile Development team, and we are now looking to expand aggressively over the next 12 months. The industry leading cloud-based technology platforms of Pearson help educate more than 30 million students across the globe.

The 360+ strong engineering team based out of the Colombo office works dedicatedly to service Pearson technology companies located in North America and Australia.

At Pearson, we aim to be the best company to work for in the world. It is part of our philosophy to provide benefits, profit share plans, development opportunities and a culture that beats anywhere else. If you are 'always learning', and have a passion for technology and creativity, send in your resume and join our exciting engineering culture.

Technical Lead - Software Quality Engineering

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities and domain knowledge should cover all needs of the team
Adhere to company and project standards and guidelines.
Should support initiatives to achieve organization objectives
Participate and coordinate in overall Pearson Lanka testing requirements including down time testing, All hands testing Chaos testing and Release Train Automation test execution.
Keep a track and monitor the Pearson Lanka and SQE department goals and make sure those goals are adhered by the team. Escalate to leadership when required
Support the Pearson Lanka SQE interview and Recruitment process.
Awareness of release process, all SQE artifacts, Tools and methodologies in the organization
Should be able to understand requirements clearly & relationships of new requirements to existing functionality from Business perspective and impact to other sub-systems and work with other teams to mitigate any issues.
Ability to understand requirement and technical reference documents, charts, diagrams without a doubt and able to review and escalate any issues
Responsible for implementing test scenarios and test cases based on designed provided and contribute test designing effort. peer reviewing QA artifacts such as test cases and test scenarios to ensure coverage and guidelines
Ability to design and develop test strategies and review them for better quality
Ability to understand, troubleshoot and differentiate defects and requirement without a doubt
Responsible for On time delivery and timely escalations/update of risks, issues, status and exemptions to leadership
Support the Project team on Automation or Performance testing by creating and executing automation/performance scripts.
Should have a good knowledge of Automation and performance tools, architecture, framework and technologies used
Awareness of DB IDEs used
Effective communication with the team, leadership, internal and external customers covering all aspects of team needs.
Good Knowledge of agile development practice and QA activities in the organization
Actively involve in at least one Practice Area
Effectively participate in training organized by team/Organization and ability self-learn on domain and tools
Ability conduct training on domain/skill area
Maintain high team morale while working with other departments collaborative manner
Should support the team to achieve delivery expectations without task allocation
Actively involved in team events and organizing events
Mentor and manage the SQE Team on delivery and carrier expectations - Give constructive timely feedback to the reportees and follow-up feedback for better improvements
Own and complete successfully any other duties as assigned by the reporting manager

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

BSc in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent professional qualification.
2 year in Associate QA Lead Designation.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Thorough knowledge on Software Quality Assurance and testing.
Good knowledge in software development, the software development lifecycle and awareness of the industry trends.
Excellent Analytical, Problem solving and decision making skills.
Ability to self-learn and grasp the knowledge quickly.
Good understanding in Object oriented concepts and simple SQL Queries.
Basic Knowledge in at least one software development tool
Ability to express and articulate the subject clearly & accurately
Ability to carry the right information & right people
Should have an aptitude in reconciling business requirements with testing requirements with help of other stakeholders.
Should have good knowledge on Test Management, automation and performance tools and should be able to learn and adapt to new tools.
Excellent knowledge and experience in practice Agile/Scrum.
Should have good time management skills and optimistic attitude.
Should have leadership, coordination, presentation, estimation and evaluation skills.Excellent knowledge and experience in practice Agile/Scrum.

Please go to the following link and submit your CV: http://pearsonlankavacancies.peopleshr.com/