QA Automation Team Lead

Job Summary

The Software Tester is responsible for giving a testing perspective from business and functional requirements to implementation as a part of an Agile team.

Goals and Objectives

Continually look for ways the team can do a better job of producing high quality software.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with the team to estimate the backlog and help the product owner to prioritize the backlog
Plan the testing approach and testing activities for the project
Setup the test environments and create the test data
Interact with the Product Owner to understand the requirements and work with the team to have clear user stories with well defined acceptance criteria
Create and execute tests at different levels: unit, component, system, regression
Commit and follow QA best practices from both the company and the customers
Understands and implements companies mission, vision, values, policies and processes

Tasks & Duties

Select and apply the adequate test techniques and tools for the given project using automated tests.
(LEAD) Development of custom automation frameworks.
(LEAD) Quality assessment on each new project assignment and test plan elaboration and tracking.
Report bugs and collaborate with the team to get them fixed.
Share the status of the testing activities keeping useful metrics for the team.

Job Requirements

Testing experience: Test Planning, Estimation, Test Case creation, Test Execution, Test Automation.
Education: Software Engineering / B.S in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Experience testing software applications of any kind: API Testing, Mobile Apps, Web Apps, Embedded Software.
Knowledge on testing concepts
Levels: Unit Testing, Integration Testing (E2E), System Testing, Acceptance Testing.
Methods: Black-box, White-box, Gray-box, Agile, Ad-hoc.
Types: Smoke, Functional, Usability, Regression, Performance, Security, Compliance.
Artifacts: Test plan, Test case, Test script.
Tech stack: Selenium, ReadyAPI, OO programming (C# preferred, Groovy), SoapUI, JUnit, NUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, Specflow, Gerkin, Jenkins, Postman, Jenkins and Azure DevOps (desired).