Job Purpose:

We, at Jet2 (UK’s third largest airlines and the second largest tour operator), have set up a state-of-the-art Technology and Innovation Centre in Pune, India. We are looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Manager to join our team. We are looking for a dynamic Senior Test Engineer who must possess a zeal to develop and configure test automation, consistently seek, and capitalize all sorts of opportunities to automate test execution thereby adding ultimate value to product stability.

Responsibilities:

• Prior experience in leading QA teams with a track record of successfully validating and delivering high-quality and scalable products.
• Hands-on QA experience including testing automation. Deep knowledge of automation best practices and industry StandardsSolid experience testing server-less applications
• Hands-on experience with all test levels, methods, and types
• Experience with software testing metrics
• Strong attention to detail and quality, and the ability to direct the team to adopt best practices.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changes and maintain high team morale and efficiency.
• Ability to work collaboratively with teams to address their needs, motivate them throughout the project, and identify opportunities to add their support directly when needed.
• Ability to provide oversight and analysis of work estimates and defend and articulate work efforts.
• Ensure the team adheres to established test case standardization & best practices.
• Ability to coordinate training sessions for senior and junior team members.
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams with other specialized individuals.
• Instill team empowerment, ownership, and accountability
• Able to work in a fast-paced, technical environment with minimal oversight and in a professional manner.
• Ability to measure team and individual manager's performance through standardized key performance indicators, and the ability to push the quality bar higher.
• Staying on top of the cutting-edge testing techniques and trends, implementing the technologies, and ensuring higher quality products on projects.
• Build test plans, test scenarios and test data to support development projects and project requirements and design documents.
• Develop/build test automation strategy/framework as required and focus specifically on maximizing reusability for regression.
• Helping teams to Design, build and execute automated tests to validate data centric applications.
• Identify regression testing needs and create and maintain an Automated Regression Suite.
• Work as part of cross functional teams spread across India and the UK for developing and implementing Test automation in an Agile environment.

Essential Qualifications:

• 12+ years of QA Engineering and QA automation experience
• 5+ years managing software testing teams and writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test strategies and plans
• 4+ Years working in DevOps and/or Agile environment
• Prior experience of working with UK or other regions such as North America/EMEA/APAC.
• Good analysis and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience working with the following: CI/CD, BDD, Agile/SCRUM/Kanban methodologies
• Good knowledge of different .net
• Exposure to Microservices architecture
• Good understanding of database querying using SQL Server.
• Automation using C#, Selenium and Protractor.
• Experience in Web Application Testing, System Integration Testing.
• Bachelors/Masters/Doctorate in Computer Science or equivalent

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience with Microsoft Test Manager, TFS / VSTS is a plus.
• Exposure to containerized deployment model
• Exposure to Azure or any other cloud platforms.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional and cross-domain environment and drive discussions with various leaders across the company