PEGA Automation Tester Jobs in Cognizant - Kolkata

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Test Requirement Analysis:

• Perform KT on user stories.
• Design estimates (time/effort) based on the requirements analysis.
• In case of critical technology, create test scripts and seek review inputs from the test lead.
• Understand and analyze the requirements (through review of requirement document) to identify the testable requirements.
• Prioritize the requirements based on the time required.
• Prepare high level flow documents.
• Organize and drive the requirement walkthrough session.
• Prepare/Review the flow diagrams.
• Seek clarification on the requirements from the customer.
• Perform Proof of concepts or evaluate different tools if required.

Test Strategy and Test Planning:

• Document the test plan based on the understanding of test strategy (covering project details, items under scope, items out of scope, type of testing, assumptions, dependencies, risks foreseen, entry/exit criteria) for each cycle.
• Seek signoff on the test plan from the client.
• Provide inputs for test plan creation including number of test scenarios and test cases used for estimation of the test cycles /schedule, dependencies etc. in addition to the other dependencies from various teams like environment availability , third party interfaces and test data etc.
• Participate in collaborative sprint goal definition session to determine what the team plans to achieve during the sprint.
• Participation in status calls/meetings between onsite and offshore teams to discuss the project status.

Test Design Techniques (Design principles/tools/patterns):

• Identify the test scenarios based on the understanding of systems, interfaces and application.
• Identify end to end business critical scenarios.
• Assist / support development team in unit test automation, identify environment dependencies, deployment strategies, build release cycle, test data dependencies etc.
• Create/Review the test scenarios (created by the Quality Engineer.
• Identify and validate test scenarios for automation.
• Perform In Sprint automation.
• Perform Automation Script Maintenance.
• Share created test scripts with test lead for review.
• Conduct pilot automation test run to validate the test scripts.
• Validate the test environment set up.
• Participate in customer review meetings and seek sign off by customer on the review comments.
• Identify regression scenario and the impacted areas on need basis.
• Perform effective automation through automated code coverage tools/ manual code review with minimal review comments.
• Develop supporting structures for all test automation including mocks, stubs, & test harnesses.

Test Execution (Automation/Specialized testing):

• Test the defect and update the status, if required.
• Conduct root cause analysis of the defects logged.
• Conduct dry run/smoke testing to ensure scripts readiness.
• Perform high level/Sanity testing to ensure testing is intact.
• Provide automation/white box and other status to Test Lead/Test Manager.
• Develop automated test scripts using technology concepts.
• Create test automation framework that suites the application under test using the identified test automation tool.
• Incorporate the automated tests into continuous integration process.
• Coordinate with the stakeholders to make go-no go decision based on test results and test closure summary report.
• Possess knowledge on continuous integration practices & identify appropriate CI tools based on project development model.
• Ensure CI Setup is done for each round and job creation is done using CI tools.
• Perform Frequent monitoring & Failure analysis will be done.
• Perform Script fixing for any errors/issues.
• Status is shared to onsite across all teams.
• Frequent Optimization /Maintenance.

Qualifications/ Skills:

• Experience : 3 years - 9 years

Qualification:

• Graduate

Must Have Skills:

• Pega Testing
• Automation Testing
• Selenium

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 3 to 9 years in PEGA Testing. 
• Experience in Automation Testing using Selenium Tool 
• As part of the testing team, the primary role would be to develop test plan, prepare effort estimation and schedule for project execution 
• Prepare test cases, review test case result and anchor defects prevention activities and interface with customers for issue resolution 
• Work closely with other QA testers, project team and Test Leads and Architects 
• Test design, architecture and scripting knowledge 
• Knowledge of software test life cycle activities and agile methodologies 
• Mix of Automation and manual testing will be an added advantage. 
• Knowledge of Automation Framework. 
• Experience of 3 plus years is expected with hands on knowledge on automation testing. 
• Experience in handling Pega upgrade project