MetLife

Job Description and Requirements

Role Value Proposition

The MetLife EMEA Technology organization is evolving to enable MetLife’s New Frontier strategy. With a strong vision in place, we are a function focused on driving digital technology strategies for key technology functions within MetLife including.  In partnership with our business leaders, we develop and deliver seamless technology experiences to our employees across the entire employee lifecycle. Our vision and mission is to create innovative, transformative and contemporary technology solutions to empower our leaders and employees so they can focus on what matters most, our customers. We are technologists with strong business acumen focused on developing our talent to continually transform and innovate.  

As part of Tech Talent Transformation (T3) agenda, MetLife is establishing a Technology Center in India. This technology center will perform as an integrated organization between onshore, offshore, and strategic vendor partners in an Agile delivery model.  

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Test Analyst I, a junior position with hands-on in QA (Testing). He/she should be responsible for the design and testing of software development solutions within a defined system, platform or product, based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise data, reduce risk and promote efficiencies in support of the organization’s goals and objectives. 

This function ensures quality control of application and infrastructure changes. The group is responsible for testing to ensure delivered code or infrastructure changes meet quality standards and end-user requirements. They are responsible for the compliance of the testing component of the end-to-end system development life cycle (SDLC) process.

Key Relationships:

Internal Stake Holder – EMEA ART Leader, ART Leadership team, India EMEA Technology AVP, and Business process Owners for EMEA Technology.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering to design test cases
• Designs and documents test cases, execution of test cases, recording test results, defects tracking and performing test coverage analysis. Identifies, recommends, and implements changes to enhance the effectiveness of quality assurance testing strategies. 
• Creates test plans and manages changes to test plans. Provides estimation input to Team. Reviews/collaborates with team including PO to gain acceptance of test plan. Reviews outputs from testing including test cases, scenarios, results, and reports. Owns defect trend analysis and root cause analysis.
• Communicates and leads test scenario reviews, test case reviews, and defect triage calls. Communicates and provides continuous updates to Team on status and progress of work. Creates SOX and other compliance documentation. Identifies, recommends, and implements changes to enhance the effectiveness of quality assurance testing strategies. Implements test processes and assist test process improvements to current procedures. May coordinate activities of the project team and assist in monitoring project schedules and risks.
• Identifies opportunities for automation and assists in automation feasibility analysis and ROI calculations. Defines test automation strategy. Prepares, executes, maintains and may review automated test scripts utilizing test automation frameworks. Regularly provides usage data for automated scripts. Develops and reviews stress and performance test scenarios.

Education:

• Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent.  

Technical Stack:

• Main Skill: QA

• Certifications
  • SAFe for Teams
  • Microsoft - Azure Fundamentals

• Competencies: Limited Experience
  • Collaboration
  • Technical Troubleshooting
  • Writing & Executing Automated Tests
  • Code Testing, Evaluation and peer review
  • Product/business/Industry/Knowledge
  • IT Environment
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Application & System Testing
  • System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • System Testing Tools

Soft Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.  
• Ability to balance technical innovation with business value delivery.  
• Business acumen: A level-headed, clear communicator to gain detailed level of understanding of organizational business requirements and business dynamics. 
• Self-Motivated and able to work independently. 
• Attention to detail 
• Collaborative 
• Team Player 
• Decisive 
• Supportive 
• Passionate 
• Professional 
• Accountable