ATDD/BDD Player/Coach

Req ID: 110381 

NTT DATA Services strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a ATDD/BDD Player/Coach to join our team in San Francisco, California (US-CA), United States (US).

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Embed with the customer's engineering Agile teams to coach and guide them throughout their journey to BDD. Be a player-coach.
• The technical coach will aid team in meeting each sprint’s goals, by enhancing their ATDD technical capability and effectiveness over time.
• Share and advocate for best practices in BDD
• Help the team adopt and mature its BDD processes and practices
• Envision and setup KPIs/metrics to baseline and gauge the maturity of the BDD adoption and effectiveness of the coaching
• Assist and consult the teams as they create living documentation and acceptance tests in Gherkin 
• Provide refresher BDD trainings on as-needed basis
• Provide thought leadership around BDD automation framework design and implementation
• Identify and surface challenges in adoption, recommended solutions and effectively communicate to executive leadership.
• Nice to have: Provide architectural guidance around BDD automation framework implementation
• Excellent understanding of Behavior-Driven Development methodology (BDD), roles and responsibilities of different team members
• Understanding of and experience using Gherkin language to describe functional requirements
• Understanding of Cucumber for the execution of Gherkins
• Excellent communication skills, ability to provide consultancy and guidance with certainty, ability to talk to small-to-medium groups of people
• Familiarity with functional test automation concepts
• Familiarity with test automation capabilities and limitations
• Technical ability to:
• Establish BDD ground rules and roles and responsibilities to foster a cohesive BDD team
• Deliver project process improvements across Sprint
  Usage support for tools used for the BDD process
• Best Practices for developing Features files
• Provide methods of categorizing backend (API) and frontend (UI) test cases
• Provide methods of creating one or more Feature files for a User Story
• Provide methods for splitting Feature files appropriately
• Provide expertise in structuring acceptance criteria for Feature files
• Provide expertise for structuring tests and tying them to actual requirements
• Hands-on test automation experience
• Hands-on BDD automation framework implementation/usage experience
• Experience in providing effective methods for testing Microservices-based applications
• Knowledge of the CI/CD pipeline and integration into the pipeline.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience executing ATDD/BDD on a project

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About NTT DATA Services

NTT DATA Services is a global business and IT services provider specializing in digital, cloud and automation across a comprehensive portfolio of consulting, applications, infrastructure and business process services. We are part of the NTT family of companies, a partner to 85 % of the Fortune 100.

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