Job Description

Overview


We are PepsiCo PepsiCo is one of the world\'s leading food and beverage companies with more than $79 Billion in Net Revenue and a global portfolio of diverse and beloved brands. We have a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes 22 brands that each generate more than $1 Billion in annual retail sales. PepsiCo\'s products are sold in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo\'s strength is its people. We are over 250,000 game changers, mountain movers and history makers, located around the world, and united by a shared set of values and goals.

We believe that acting ethically and responsibly is not only the right thing to do, but also the right thing to do for our business. At PepsiCo, we aim to deliver top-tier financial performance over the long term by integrating sustainability into our business strategy, leaving a positive imprint on society and the environment. We call this Winning with Pep+ (Pep Positive). For more information on PepsiCo and the opportunities it holds, visit www.pepsico.com




S&T Org, Digital Products and Services (DPS Team) at PepsiCo The Digital Evolution is critical to driving PepsiCo\xe2\x80\x99s ambitions around being FASTER, STRONGER, and BETTER. Under the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization, the Digital Products & Services team designs, builds, and stands up digital solutions across the value chain, that are embedded into business processes to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain high ROI. Guided by PEPSICO\xe2\x80\x99s global priorities, the Digital Products & Services team create user-centric digital products that can be scaled globally by leveraging the leading technologies, advanced analytics algorithms and latest user research. For more information on the PepsiCo Digital Hub, refer to the link: https://www.pepsicojobs.com/strategy-and-transformation


Software QA Associate Manager


Location: Gurugram

The Software QA Associate manager will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization. Software Engineering is the corner stone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCo\xe2\x80\x99s value chain. You will work closely with the user experience, product, IT, and process engineering teams to develop new products and prioritize deliver solutions across S&T core priorities.
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Responsibilities

• Participate in creation of test plan, test strategy, test scenario and test case and provide estimate of QA effort
• End-To-End responsibility for functional testing of new features, including both writing the STD and automating it
• Identify gaps in regression test automation coverage
• Scale test automation to cross OS, Devices and beyond.
• Design and automate cross-functionality integration tests
• Work with a project team to build E2E performance engineering solutions by understanding the application landscape, end user behavior and business requirements
• Play a major role in designing and maturing the automation framework
• Participate in full product release cycles, from feature design to version release
• Day-to-day leadership, management & support of Testing projects, oversee implementation, supporting infrastructure, and ongoing maintenance of the test suite.
• Act as a QA sign-off for Release Committee to validate test coverage, execution, results and general quality standards of the Platform.
• Develops reporting metrics and KPIs to measure the performance, quality and on-time delivery of the Software Test team; works with Test Managers to maintain dashboard metrics; produces monthly software test performance reports for executive leadership.
• Responsible for Testing sign off for releases, working closely with the Test Leads and Build Managers
• Take ownership of the test estimation Process and deliver estimates as per the defined SDLC.
• Ownership of overarching Delivery Test strategies and Test Approach for project.
• Ensuring QA/Testing Process and Procedures are followed across each project and team.
• Lead multi-discipline, high-performance work teams distributed across remote locations effectively. Build, manage, develop, and mentor a team of engineers.
• Interact with executives across the company to lead the narrative around software engineering
• Develop and expand DPS capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences
• Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
• Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business

• A Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Master\xe2\x80\x99s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant software testing experience with delivery experience.
• Expertise / Programming experience in at least in one Code language (Java, Python, JS/Typescript)
• 9+ years of experience in the automation in Tools like Appium(Mandatory), WebdriverIO, Selenium, Test NG, Maven, Git, Jenkins, SOAP UI, Java script, Xpaths
• A good amount of exposure to Mobile automation on different Operating Systems (iOS, Android, Windows Phone)- 5+Yrs
• Expertise in practical knowledge of debugging tools on web and mobile platforms
• Expert in API Automation testing and exposure to REST API framework , Automation experience using any of the tools \xe2\x80\x93 Postman, Rest assured will be effective for the role.
• Strong Experience in Integration testing (SIT) and ability to understand the system/Data Flow architecture and guide the team to build effective test scenarios.
• Good Experience working with SQL and large volumes of data.
• Experience with Continuous Integration (preferably - Azure)
• Thorough understanding of the role and the place of QA in SDLC, testing processes and methodologies
• Knowledge of Espresso & XCUITest (nice to have)
• Knowledge of white box testing (nice to have)
• Exposure about Device Farms like browserstack ,Saucelabs
• Experience working in distributed team (nice to have)
• Experience in Android platform is a plus
• Good understanding on SOLID design Principles and Performance testing principles.
• Strong QA and Automation experience as part of career progression.
• Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design
• Expert in implementing and optimizing agile development and continuous integration / continuous delivery methodologies
• Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with high throughput cloud native distributed systems
• Experience in testing and consuming large-scale web services

• Strong people management skills, with a proven ability to hire and grow talented programmatic and user-level personnel
• Experience leading large initiatives with the ability to course correct as needed
• Inclined to see problems from the point of view of the customer and of our customer base as a whole
• Strong attention to detail and extremely well-organized
• Ability to run a large team of software engineers
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing priorities
• Ability to be able to interface with the business and recognize their needs and priorities
• Ability to work cross functionally with product, service design and operations across the organization
• Demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to Engineering services, education, and support
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to navigate through a complex and matrixed internal environment
• Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global partners in other functional units
• Ability to navigate a complex organization and to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level