This hybrid Test Lead role focuses on designing executing and optimizing complex test strategies for enterprise systems built on Mainframes SAP MDM NW GDS and IBM TPF within a global MNC environment. The role spans planning coordination and defect governance to ensure high quality releases that support resilient travel and related services platforms while collaborating with diverse cross functional teams.
Educational Qualifications
- Possess professional experience between eight and eleven years in quality engineering or software testing with significant exposure to complex enterprise platforms
- Demonstrate strong hands on expertise in testing Mainframes based solutions including batch processes online transactions and integrations with peripheral applications
- Exhibit practical experience with SAP MDM NW GDS testing such as data synchronization master data governance and integration with other enterprise resource planning components
- Show proven capability in validating IBM TPF based platforms including transaction flows performance considerations and high availability behaviors within transactional environments
- Apply structured test design techniques familiarity with test management tools and defect tracking platforms to maintain traceability from requirements to execution outcomes
- Bring working knowledge of travel intermediaries domain as a desirable skill including understanding of booking distribution settlement and partner integration processes to enhance test relevance
- Communicate clearly with distributed stakeholders documenting test results risks and recommendations in an accessible manner suitable for both technical and nontechnical audiences
- Adopt a collaborative mindset within a hybrid work model managing coordination across onsite and remote participants while maintaining accountability for test milestones and deliverables
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate end to end test planning activities for Mainframes SAP MDM NW GDS and IBM TPF initiatives ensuring comprehensive coverage across functional integration regression and user acceptance scopes
- Develop detailed test strategies and test scenarios that align with product requirements technical designs and quality standards for large scale enterprise applications
- Create optimize and maintain reusable test cases and data sets tailored for Mainframes SAP MDM NW GDS and IBM TPF systems to improve consistency and reduce execution effort
- Oversee daily test execution cycles in a hybrid work model ensuring defects are logged prioritized and tracked to closure in collaboration with engineering and product teams
- Analyze complex defects across Mainframes SAP MDM NW GDS and IBM TPF layers identifying root causes and providing clear actionable insights to development and architecture stakeholders
- Coordinate with business analysts and product owners to validate requirements and acceptance criteria translating them into measurable and testable objectives that minimize production risk
- Implement risk based testing practices that balance coverage and effort focusing on critical travel and transaction flows that have the highest impact on customer and business outcomes
- Collaborate with environment and infrastructure teams to ensure stable and compliant test environments including test data refreshes and interface connectivity for upstream and downstream systems
- Prepare and present structured test status reports highlighting progress key defects quality risks and release readiness indicators to project and quality governance forums
Work Experience: 6 to 9 years
Location: Chennai, Hybrid, India
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