Test Consultant Job Description
Test consultant
provides test automation consultancy to software and infrastructure development teams in regards of testing and software quality aspects.
Test Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Evolving the automation approach to testing and the services
Determine types of automation and performance testing and types of monitoring that may be required
40% - Technical Test Automation Consulting on Projects and Programs
10% - Test Automation COE Support
Setting up policies and guidelines for test automation and test tooling including research of new tooling
Coordinating test automation activities with CoE software development and CoE tooling
Securing and expanding content knowledge on test automation
Deploying and leading the appropriate testing framework to meet the testing mandate
To be applied against the Product under test
To be applied against the Testing Team
Test Consultant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Test Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ISTQB, ITIL, ISEB, EC, PCI, OSCP, CISSP, CSQE, ASQ, MCAD
Education for Test Consultant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the test consultant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Business, Education, Technical, Business/Administration, Computer, Management
Skills for Test Consultant
Desired skills for test consultant include:
Infrastructure
Jira
Testing tools
Current industry wide quality & test processes and practices
Data and environment management
Tools and techniques - their applicability and impact
Software development life cycle
Automation
Jenkins
Non-functional testing
Desired experience for test consultant includes:
Planning, deploying, and leading the testing effort for any given engagement / release
Testing Process
Develop strong and effective working relationships with Project management, Business Analysis, IT Development/Support and test teams
Performance Consulting on Large Projects and Programs – 10%
Automated testing consulting and training 30%
Work in client premises
Test Consultant Examples
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Test Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a test consultant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for test consultant
- Maintains a “big and complete” picture view of the project/programs, its dependencies, business goals, technology arena, and helps guide & direct the functioning of the Testing delivery teams appropriately specific to test automation
- Develop and implement automation standards
- Design and create test scenarios/cases for DEV/SIT & load these scripts into ALM review test cases and adhere to strong high level standards in this area
- Demonstrating products to technical and non-technical audiences, at executive and/or technical levels, and at pre- and post-sales meetings
- Leading architecture design discussions and recommend an appropriate combination of technical solutions for production deployment
- Preparing and present technical proposals
- Collaborating with sales representatives to ensure all aspects of the sale are aligned
- Identifying market and product requirements based on field experience and customer input
- Partnering with our Sales and Product Development teams to develop enterprise solutions
- Ensuring total customer satisfaction with the customer’s implementation experience
Qualifications for test consultant
- One year of experience providing IT consulting services to clients on behalf of a global consulting company
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering (any), Statistics, Mathematics, MIS, CIS or a related field
- One year of experience providing IT consulting services on behalf of a global consulting company
- Being a master of your domain – CA encourages and expects on-going learning
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office 2013 or higher Applications (Project Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Microsoft Visio
- Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM_ from the Project Management Institute preferred
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a test consultant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for test consultant
- Reviewing the project document including Result and Resource Framework (RRF), partners’ progress report, Mid-term Evaluation report, exit strategy report, TCN progress report, donor report to gain understandings on progress and results achieved so far
- Coordinate with technical Institute partner especially TCN, government agencies such as Women and Children Office (WCO) at the project districts and other local CSO partners to identify 229 women trainees and entrepreneurs and manage for their skill testing certification by NSTB in eight different occupations
- Coordinate with 229 women of Bajhang (85 women entrepreneurs), Doti (62 women entrepreneurs) and Kailali (82 women entrepreneurs) district and get the applications submitted to NSTB
- Coordinate with NSTB to plan skill testing date for different occupations
- Manage skill testing venue, equipment, materials and other logistics arrangement of the participants
- Manage transportation of the participants to the training venue
- Coordinate with NSTB to collect skill testing result and hand over to the participants
- Upon submission of an inception report presenting a clear work plan with timeline and specific tools and techniques to be utilized followed by clearance of Unit Manager, WPS Unit (20% of total contract, within two weeks time)
- Upon submission of progress report of the orientation and preparation class conducted for the women entrepreneurs and field visit followed by clearance of Unit Manager, WPS Unit (50% of total contract, within four weeks time)
- Upon submission of final report of the whole process undertaken for the conduction of skill test along with the completion of skill test exam taken by the women entrepreneurs and certificate received by them followed by clearance of Unit Manager, WPS Unit (30% of total contract, within four weeks time)
Qualifications for test consultant
- Adheres to approved IT project management standards and controls
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Project, Excel, Visio and Powerpoint
- Understands Remedy to review release schedules
- Understands Cognos for financial processes
- A minimum 5 years’ of experience working in the field of gender equality and women’s empowerment issues, including peace and security
- Experiences in facilitating group of entrepreneurs for providing skill test
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a test consultant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for test consultant
- Manage test/prototype projects as assigned
- Establish project objectives, timelines, risk analysis, milestones, deliverables, and budgets
- Researches and analyzes activities that may impact productivity and makes suggestions for revision to improve workflow and resource management
- Collaborates with stakeholders, business representatives, and technology to identify requirements for functional and design changes and test plans
- Identifies, defines, and analyzes risks and issues associated with a project
- Develops mitigation plans when appropriate
- Ensures timelines for key activities are met to keep the project on track for delivery
- Compiles data to assist with management discussions concerning health of a program/project
- Provides technical expertise in the analysis, design and execution of tools and technologies for the testing processes
- Plan and deliver data warehouse and storage architectures
Qualifications for test consultant
- Experience in facilitating group of entrepreneurs in skill testing (20)
- Experience working with government system including local governance (10)
- Writing skills based on samples submitted (20)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering (any), Computer Science, Information Systems, CIS or a related field
- One year of experience providing IT consulting services to clients in the financial services industry on behalf of a global consulting company
- Get the chance to become a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) through our industry recognised training!
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Our company is hiring for a test consultant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for test consultant
- Deliver data to end users using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Microsoft Excel, PowerPivot and Microsoft SharePoint Performance Point
- Create documentation for test scenarios, expected results and test cases based on business requirements
- Lead and manage resources at on-shore, off-shore from testing perspective
- Actively manage tool users to optimize license costs
- Enforce adherence to IT Testing and Deployment standards and deliverables
- Work closely with project teams to improve quality of test planning and preparation
- Work closely and continually mentor project teams to improve quality of test cases and test case reviews
- Conduct quality assessments during preparation, execution, and implementation phases of projects
- Provides expert advice and interpretation of requirements to design in-depth testing strategies (testing objective, methods of testing new functions, total time and resources required for the project, and the testing environment) for internal/external clients
- As the SME, collaborates and partners with stakeholders, business, developers and test analysts to develop complex test plans, conditions and cases (set of inputs, execution preconditions, and expected outcomes developed for a particular objective, such as to exercise a particular program path or to verify compliance with a specific requirement) to be used in testing
Qualifications for test consultant
- Experiences working with local governance system and procedure
- Excellent communication skills and intercultural sensitivity
- Good knowledge of computer applications especially Microsoft Office applications such as word and excel together with a good presentation skills
- 5 years’ of experience working in the field of gender equality and women’s empowerment issues, including peace and security (30)
- Get involved with our blogs and speak at conferences
- Experience testing Web Services technologies (XML, SOAP, JSON)
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a test consultant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for test consultant
- Configuring SAP SolMan Adapter, SAP SolMan SEE and BPCA
- Create and maintain automated test scripts using HP ALM
- Customizing HP ALM, HP UFT frameworks, SAP TAO CBASE as required
- Coordinate and gather detailed functional test cases with End users, Functional consultants, Process owners and Business analysts
- Management of Test Data Management and authorizations
- Planning and execution of lights-out regression testing
- Reporting and presenting the result of the test execution to Management
- Setting up a Test CoE with external and internal personnel
- Continuous improvement of CoE best practices
- We will be running the next Graduate Assessment center 27th Sept2017
Qualifications for test consultant
- The ideal test trainee has a MBO level 4 degree in IT or a study related to IT
- Bachelor candidates are also requested to apply, there will be a different course created
- You are eager to learn new technologies and test methodologies
- Test experience is preferred (due to internship experience or job experience)
- Overall Test Process Consulting At least 5 year experience
- Solution Business Development and RFP Proposal Support At least 5 year experience