Job Description

Job Title: Senior Specialist - Manual Testing
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ABOUT BRISTLECONE


Bristlecone is a leading provider of specialized digital transformation services for the intelligent enterprise. We empower our customers with speed, visibility, automation and resiliency – to thrive on change. By combining our industry focus, supply chain expertise, consulting-driven approach and proprietary accelerators, we create unmatched business value.
Our transformative solutions in Digital Logistics, Cognitive Manufacturing, Autonomous Planning, Smart Procurement and Digitalization are positioned around key industry pillars and delivered through a comprehensive portfolio of services spanning digital strategy, design and build, and implementation across a range of technology platforms. We are the strategic partner of choice for your ongoing transformation journey.
Bristlecone is ranked among the top ten leaders in supply chain services by Gartner. We are headquartered in San Jose, California, with 14 global hubs and over 2,100 consultants. Bristlecone is part of the $20 billion Mahindra Group.
ROLE DESCRIPTION

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  Lead and drive the definition, preparation and execution of testing strategies for client project engagements including Unit, Functional, System Integration and User Acceptance test phases according to the defined QA Framework
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  Manage dailyweekly progress reporting and defect tracking and resolution progress
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  Facilitate communication within the Bristlecone team and the client
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  Review and provide input to project schedule tasks, levels of effort, duration, testing risks and dependencies
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  Create requirements traceability matrices and conduct reviews with business analysts and technical development staff to ensure understanding of business requirements and complete test coverage
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  Create comprehensive test strategies and test plans and conduct reviews
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  Hands on execution of test cases, update documentation accordingly with results
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  Manage other QA analysts onshoreoffshore for daily QA tasks
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  Escalates issues and risks to project leadership in accordance with best practices
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  Lead testing efforts for projects that impact their core area of testing responsibilities, which includes acting in a leadership role to acquire test data and ensuring proper tests are executed in all testing environments
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  Must be able to work as a team to ensure execution of smoke, functional and regressions tests in all levels of the environments
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  Conduct testing postmortems to define and document lessons learned and translate them to improvement to the QA framework
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  Must have strong technical aptitude and analytic background needed to understand applications and data infrastructure

QUALIFICATION / EXPERIENCE

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  Requires 5-7 years of related quality assurance, technical experience
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  Associate or Bachelor degree preferred, or equivalent experience
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  Able to meet aggressive deadlines and handle multiple complex projects
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  Cross browser testing Windows Firefox, Chrome, IE, Edge Mac Book Safari, Chrome, FirefoxInvolves UI and UX testing.
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  UI User Interface UX User Experience
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  Knowledge of testing types such as Localization, Domain Separation, Accessibility Testing
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  Good knowledge of software development lifecycles
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  Good knowledge of software testing lifecycles
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  Knowledge and experience of testing multiple platforms, browsers and mobile devices
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  Good knowledge of API Testing with REST and SOAP
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  Experience of testing with ServiceNow is a plus

SOFT SKILLS

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  Excellent communication skills, verbal as well as written
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  Positive attitude with flexibility and maturity to work in a challenging client environment
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  Ability to drive project responsibilities in a dynamic and proactive manner
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  Ability to showcase three Mahindra RISE Pillars e.g. Accepting No Limits, Driving Positive Change and Alternative Thinking

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Bristlecone is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Information Security Responsibilities:

• Understand and adhere to Information Security policies, guidelines and procedure, practice them for protection of organizational data and Information System.
• Take part in information security training and act while handling information.
• Report all suspected security and policy breach to Infosec team or appropriate authority(CISO).
• Understand and adhere to the additional information security responsibilities as part of the assigned job role.