Test Lead

Founded in 1910 KONE is a global leader that provides elevators escalators and automatic building doors as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our worlds cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make peoples journeys safe convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.

KONEs vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease effectiveness and experience to our customers and line with our strategy Sustainable Success with Customers we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world escalators and elevators with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop transform manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity business growth and technological curious mindset and innovation areat the core of everything we do and this makes us an integral part ofKONEs success.

IT professionals - KONE Corporation

Should have 10 years of experience in application development specific to quality assurance and quality engineering.

10 years of experience and proficient in test definition capable of developing test plans and test cases from functional technical specifications

10 years of working knowledge (preferably hands on experience) with test automation and driving test automation plan with the tools like Selenium Java exposure to robot framework Jenkins Azure DevOps.

Extensive experience in coordinating and managing the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and End-to-end testing.

Knowledge of GenAI based solutions is preferred

6 years of experience in handling communication with stakeholders

Excellent problem solving analytical and communication skills

Excellent stakeholder management skills.

Skills to engage with the team to expand areas of testing and quality

Self motivator able to learn quickly meets deadlines and demonstrates problem-solving skills

Strong sense of accountability and commitment

Knowledge of software development lifecycle within Agile environment.

Working knowledge of non-functional testing

Experience with SAP testing.

Exposure in working with the test requirement and management tools like JIRA Azure DevOps

Experience in working in and managing teams who are following Agile and DevOps ways of working with geographically distributed teams

Knowledge of release and deployment processes

Experience in vendor management for testing services

Right attitude and spirit of accountability

Excellent communication skills

Key Responsibilities:

End to end test management activities

Be First point of contact to plan and manage test execution and responsible for timely delivery

Monitor daily operations create execution reports and communicate to stakeholders on regular basis.

Maintain QA metrics implement innovations and processes monitor the improvements

Regular connect with stakeholders to understand the test progress outcome and improvement areas.

Regular connect with vendors on the focus points discuss the improvement areas. Manage cross vendor teams and making sure they are delivering to the best of the business needs.

Accurately plan to achieve the business objectives while closely working with the business stakeholders

Actively communicate all relevant information to/from the team ensuring close collaboration within team and with other relevant stakeholders.

Lead direct evaluate and develop your team to achieve the agreed objectives on time and according to budget.

Ensure that KONE and testing practices policies procedures and processes are met by yourself and your team members (including external providers).

Gather best practices to share amongst the teams.

Understand and manage the SLAs as appropriate.

Provide accurate reporting on project delivery.

Establish processes and procedures that increase internal efficiency and effectiveness.

Supervision and mentoring the testing team members

Training the testing team members and customer stakeholders

At KONE we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is being a great place to work we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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