Seeking a Test Consultant responsible for QA in software design and testing, ensuring compliance with quality standards and implementing effective testing strategies.
Description and Requirements
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:
Education:
Technical Stack:
Soft Skills:
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
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
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Top Skills
Automation
Qa
Testing
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