QA lead level 2

Job Description:

The highly experienced quality professional who works under limited supervision, learns quickly, and brings ideas and passion to their daily responsibilities and executes work to completion with excellence in a timely manner. Able to lead a team of 5-8 QA Engineers through both Manual and Automated testing. 

Skill/Experience Requirements:

• Experience working with CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab etc.)
• Financial Experience is a must
• Experience with QA processes and deliverables in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Proficient in defect tracking and analyzing root cause utilizing tools (Jira, Rally etc.)
• Strong understanding of test automation concepts and approaches.
• Experience working with or on remote teams
• Understand and utilize risk-based testing technique
• Experience in test environment and test data management
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, to challenge the norm
• Specialization/Role Requirements for Automation
• 5+ years of experience writing Selenium tests in Java or JavaScript using (Web Driver , Web Driver IO, Marathon , Appium etc.)
• 1+ years of experience with SOA and integration testing, checking logs. 
• 5+ years of experience with test runners (Junit, TestNG, Mocha, Jasmine)
• 3+ years of experience with CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab)
• 3+ years of experience with Selenium Grid
• 5+ years of using Jira for defect tracking
• 3 +years of working with SQL for back-end database validation
• Prefer Selenium being utilized in the current/most recent project
• Prefer Kibana or Splunk tool experience 
• Prefer Agile methodology being utilized in the current/most recent project
• Prefer experience in the SAFe Agile approach
• Develop and maintain functional automation test scripts utilizing modular frameworks and best practices

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively lead a team of QA Engineers in a fast-paced environment utilizing the Agile methodology

• Develop and maintain functional automation test scripts utilizing modular frameworks and best practices

• Execute test scripts to validate correct functionality of application

• Use SQL for back-end database validation

• Perform various types of testing including smoke, white box, black box, integration, end-to-end, regression, and system testing as needed

• Participate in requirement & design review sessions; evaluate requirements & design docs from a quality test automation standpoint

• Manage test coverage based on risk analysis

• Document defects and evaluate priority of defect based on overall application functionality

• Coordinate test script reviews with stakeholders as appropriate.

• Adhere to requirement review, defect writing & test script writing guidelines

• Ensure completion of all deliverables within schedule, budget and quality constraints.

• Participate in Root Cause Analysis sessions

• Ensure that projects follow prescribed software development life cycle standards.

• Develop and maintain good relationships with project team.

• Multi-task to meet assignment deadlines

• Accurately estimate work assignments

• Show assertiveness

• Identify obstacles and roadblocks; and offer suggestions to work around obstacles

• Help drive and improve QA process within the team you are assigned