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Our world is transforming, and PTC is leading the way. Our software brings the physical and digital worlds together, enabling companies to improve operations, create better products, and empower people in all aspects of their business.

Our people make all the difference in our success. Today, we are a global team of nearly 7,000 and our main objective is to create opportunities for our team members to explore, learn, and grow – all while seeing their ideas come to life and celebrating the differences that make us who we are and the work we do possible.

Job Title and Level: QA Consultant

Role: Provides technical leadership to a team for planning and executing on quality assurance projects. Works closely with a group leader(s) to design the testing approach for a large complex project or multiple small projects. Develops, publishes, and implements test plans for specific software solutions. Develops strategies for implementing and enhancing the use of software test automation for multiple projects. Leads the development of quality assurance standards. The position is organization structure dependent and linked to ownership of cross modules. Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts. Typically requires 7-11 years quality assurance experience in a software development environment and upto 3 years in previous role. Must have solid experience and expertise surrounding software quality assurance and software development methodologies. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish quality assurance goals. Performs a variety of lead technical quality assurance tasks. Utilizes project management skills to meet project timetables and deliverable. Will often lead and direct the work of others and has project management skills similar to a group leader. Up-to-date on current and best practices related to quality assurance. Technical creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a Section Manager/Manager or General Manager. Testing expert in Automation and Performance testing activities and interested in pursuing an exciting and enriching career in the Retail Domain.

Your Impact: Research new automation tools as per changing technology and deliver products faster using the Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Suggest new tools and techniques to improve testing efficiency.

Your Team: Named as the #1 PLM Software by analyst firm IDC, FlexPLM enables retail, fashion, footwear and apparel companies to manage the entire product development process, from assortment planning to design, to full specification development, to sourcing and costing, and pre-order confirmation. FlexPLM offers the most comprehensive Retail PLM capabilities to help address both industry-centric challenges and everyday business pressures.

Your Day-to-Day:

Create, maintain and enhance the existing automation suite for various releases and products.

Support Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery Pipeline.

Responsible for automation script creation, debugging, and ongoing maintenance

* Automation Testing Related -

Automation Tool Framework development and maintenance.

Develop and maintain automated software tests, unit tests.

Code Review and Optimization of the automated tests.

* Performance Testing Related -

Gather Performance Testing Requirements and conduct system performance testing to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability.

Work with testing team to develop performance test plans and cases.

Develop automated scripts in JMeter. Develop automated test scenarios and environments for performance testing.

Analyse test results and coordinate with development teams for bug fixes.

Generate test summary reports for management review.

Analyse root causes of performance issues and provide corrective actions.

Job Roles, Responsibilities, and Deliverables

Role: Technical Leader

Primary Responsibilities

Measurable Deliverables

 Leads the translation of product requirements, use case definitions and functional specifications into a cohesive testing plan for further test execution of the assigned project

 Devises appropriate methodologies and tools for executing the test plan for the project. Provides technical mentoring to the assigned project team for applying the methodologies and tools

 Actively participates in review on all aspects of design and implementation phases of assigned project(s)

 Creates and documents test approaches, test scenarios and testing/result reporting guidelines. Executes on the above approaches

 Establishes testing strategies and participates in the selection of various (testing, productivity and result reporting) tools to be used by the QA organization

 Establishes and enforces standard methods for requirements evaluation, test planning and execution in conjunction with group leaders

 Develops product QA plans in line with important business goals

 Demonstrate expertise regarding the functioning of multiple PTC and related products across multiple system environments

 Serve as technical mentor for multiple QA Engineers and Sr. QA Engineers

 Be an active QA representative for product related Cross Functional Teams (CFT)

 Share technical information with the team and to a wider audience when appropriate

 Provide timely and complete information and documentation to product stakeholders

 Respond to requests for information in a timely manner

 Test Plans

 Test Cases

 Process Documentation

 Logged SPRs

 Status Reports

Role: Project Management

Primary Responsibilities

Measurable Deliverables

 Understands the Software development lifecycle and demonstrates expertise in the use of established QA practices as well as creation of new QA practices in conjunction with Group Leader(s)

 Works closely with group leader to validate accuracy of effort estimates during test planning and execution phase

 Works closely with group leader(s) to analyze technical aspects of task dependencies as well as task definition and assignment

 Oversees, evaluates and reports on the work of test team in the absence of a group leader

 Updates to Project Plans

 Process Documentation

Role: QA Test Environment Support

Primary Responsibilities

Measurable Deliverables

 Maintain a current product environment in accordance to the compatibility matrix

 Ensure assigned QA machines are up to date with latest release or maintenance software

 Promptly resolve any outstanding issues or problems around assigned product areas. Ensuring QA web page reflects current status of assigned systems and their availability

 Follow organization process and best practices with respect to QA

 SPR resolution & closure

 Up to date web pages reflecting latest machine configurations.

Role: Team Player

Primary Responsibilities

Measurable Deliverables

 Helps colleagues decompose complex problems into a set of simpler ones and help evaluate design alternatives

 Attend System Testing and Quality Assurance Techniques seminar

 Attend functional training courses and PTC colloquiums

 Keep current with appropriate technologies

 Provide training to other team members

 Performance Reviews

 Status Reports

 Colloquiums

 Training Material

Role: Mentoring

Primary Responsibilities

Measurable Deliverables

 Mentors new employees

 Technically guides colleagues on design and implementation techniques

 Higher Productivity

Must-Have Skills

Automation & Performance Testing

Automation Tools framework knowledge

Tools Preferred – Selenium, JMeter, REST, Playwright, GitHub CoPilot, Security Automation tools

Pipeline automation tools and techniques

Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Selenium and Playwright

API testing experience using REST

Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, TestNG, POSTMAN & SOAP UI API, Core JAVA, MYSQL, SQL, JIRA, Jenkins, GIT hub, GIT Lab, MAVEN, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA

Experience Required

10+ Years

Life at PTC is about more than working with today’s most cutting-edge technologies to transform the physical world. It’s about showing up as you are and working alongside some of today’s most talented industry leaders to transform the world around you.

If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation, you’ll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us?

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