Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Recruit22 LLC

Lead QA

Job Description

• Working closely with QA Center of Excellence to implement improvements.
• Coordinating with other members of engineering teams to ensure project goals are met.
• The QA Team Lead 1 must be able to take on leadership responsibilities and influence the direction of the automation effort, and its schedule and prioritization.
• The QA Team Lead 1 will work with management, developers, and quality assurance personnel
  goals.
• Providing technical support for existing automation systems by troubleshooting malfunctions and performing maintenance tasks
• Develops automated software quality test suite to ensure the applications have appropriate
  automation coverage.
• Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests.
• Leads the maturity and improvements to the QA automation framework using industry standard tools and approaches.
• Leads in developing enhancements to QA standards, guidelines and procedures as needed
• Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code
• Guide team members on automation best practices, as well as effective use of test automation tools
• Implement Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) approaches
• Keep up the automated quality assurance code/systems with the evolution of the software products
• Participate in analyzing Major Incidents and Emergency Change controls to identify opportunities to automate software quality test cases to reduce or eliminate those
• Design, implement and execute cross-system integration tests and regression tests for each release
• Build and manage automated QA test suites which can be handed over to Reliability and NOC teams who can execute these at-will in Production environment for operational validation of systems
• Help manage appropriate test environments.
• Keeps abreast of current and emerging technology and trends in automated software testing
• Help evaluate new tools, products, upgrades and vendor/multivendor solutions
• Conducts code reviews to ensure consistency, quality and reusability of test automation artifacts
• Define and manage test automation code artifacts across multiple systems
• Ability to communicate quality metrics of the applications to leadership.
• Ability to coordinate with Leads and development managers.
• Provide hands-on leadership and mentoring of junior team members. This includes performing
  reviews of other engineers within your team.
• Support the team and delivery managers in planning program-wide efforts.
• Participate in interviewing and onboarding of new staff.
• Perform People "HR" Management responsibilities.

• Be an advocate for positive organizational change by understanding and promoting emerging organizational models and demonstrate how this supports and improves Domino's business goals.
• Support the estimation of upcoming work and coordination of work across peer teams.
• Demonstrate features and provide status of managed services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance program with Agile practices
• 7+ years of experience in Automated Software Quality Assurance practices including BDD/TDD
• 7+ years of experience of Secure Development Lifecycle processes
• Experience with automating QA for eCommerce, Point of Sale, and Software as a Service (SaaS)
  applications.
• Experience with identity and access management including user registration, access provisioning, role-based access control and user de-provisioning
• Experience with automating QA for Mobile websites and Native Mobile applications (iOS, Android, Windows)
• Experience with high-availability architectures in a large heavy-traffic environment
• Experience with the implementation of automated testing process, tools and services including JUnit, QTP, Selenium, PlayWright, node.js, grunt.js, Cucumber, SoapUI
• Experience testing web applications developed in JavaScript, CSS, XHTML
• Experience in automated testing of backend applications and APIs developed in Java/C# with SQL, NoSQL, ActiveMQ and caching technologies such as Hazelcast
• Experience in automating SQA for apps running on various underlying components including Apache web server, NGINX and IIS that use SOAP, REST, and custom web services with JSON and/or XML as payloads
• Must have experience operating within Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) environment
• Must have experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins (or similar) and pipeline scripting (Groovy)
• Must have experience with source code control systems such as Git, Github, Stash etc.
• Must have good understanding of network topologies and technologies
• Must have good understanding of data management practices including good experience with SQL
• Experience in Automated QA tool evaluation, selection and implementation
• Experience in the design and implementation of complex technical solutions
• Experience with full life cycle software deployment using Agile practices
• Nice to have experience with performance and load testing of web applications
• Nice to have experience querying Splunk for application metrics for operational behavior
• Nice to have experience with Java Spring Boot framework
• Nice to have experience with Kubernetes and container-based application deployment and
  operations
• Must have excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Demonstrated mentoring and coaching capabilities.
• People Management Experience.

• Candidates might be required to perform real runs testing (which involves driving around with the apps) as and when required. "Vendors would be required to carry the additional insurance required for performing real run testing.”