MetLife

Position: Test Consultant

Job Location: Pune, India  

Work Arrangement: Hybrid  

Assignment Category Grade: Full-time GG10

Technical Skills: QA – Testing (Manual, automation)

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 Test Consultant, a senior 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
• Provides technical expertise in the analysis, design and execution of testing processes. 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.
• Provides technical expertise in the analysis, design and execution of testing processes. Formulates technical test strategy, develops effective environment and data strategy as per organizational needs. Evaluates best practices to influence technical direction to maximize testing efficiency and effectiveness. 
• Provides recommendations for tools and technologies relevant to testing. Develops programmatic testing scripts that can be executed on a single or repeatable basis utilizing specialized testing tools.
• Ensures that the appropriate testing infrastructure and frameworks are established. Leads planning, coordination, development and execution of test automation and/or performance scripting.
• Play important role in test estimation
• Should have knowledge on Test automation and respective tools

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