Tester III - Software Testing
ripplehire
Job Description
QA Strategy & Leadership
- Define and own the QA strategy, test approach, and release readiness for D365 CRM programs
- Lead and mentor manual and automation QA teams; perform reviews and quality audits
- Establish test standards, best practices, and governance across projects
Manual Testing (D365 CRM)
- Plan and execute functional, regression, SIT, UAT, smoke, and sanity testing
- Validate D365 modules such as Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, Field Service, Finance
- Test customizations, plugins, workflows, business rules, BPFs, security roles, and dashboards
- Perform integration testing with ERP, Power BI, SharePoint, Azure, and external systems
- Support data migration validation, reconciliation, and cutover testing
Automation Testing
- Design and maintain automation frameworks for D365 CRM
- Automate regression and critical flows using Selenium / Playwright / TypeScript / Java / C
- Execute API automation using Postman / REST Assured
- Integrate automation suites with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab)
- Track automation coverage, flaky tests, and execution metrics
Test Management & Defect Governance
- Create and maintain test plans, test cases, RTM, and execution reports
- Manage defect lifecycle, triage, prioritization, and closure with Dev and Product teams
- Use JIRA / Azure DevOps / HP ALM for test and defect management
Agile & Stakeholder Collaboration
- Actively participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand ups, and retrospectives
- Collaborate with business users, developers, architects, and PMs
- Provide quality status, risk assessments, and go live recommendations to stakeholders
Mandatory Skills
- Strong experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM QA
- Manual testing across Sales, Service, Marketing, Field Service modules
- Automation using Selenium / Playwright
- API testing (Postman, REST tools)
- SQL for data validation and reconciliation
- CI/CD integration using Azure DevOps or Jenkins
- Test & defect management tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps, HP ALM)