Quality Assurance Lead

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Responsibilities

• Create testing artifacts such as test plans, test cases, test reports, and tests.
• Review product requirement documents in close collaboration with product managers and tech leads to create and document test plan and test cases for features.
• Review test plan and test case documents as needed with key stakeholders.
• Work hand-in-hand with the developers and product manager as a manual tester for new features under development.
• As a quality engineer, understand the technical stacks and technology powering the applications.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing as a prerequisite for test automation, for time-sensitive delivery scenarios and for unscheduled hotfix releases.
• Develop and execute automated UI tests for regression and feature testing.
• Develop and execute manual tests for regression and feature testing.
• Perform pre-release automated regression testing for scheduled feature releases.
• Uplevel overall QA team maturity by contributing to cross-functional efforts such as for nightly tests, monitoring test failures, and improving the frameworks that run the tests.
• Work with Jenkins to schedule tests, analyze test results and share metrics and feedback with key stakeholders.
• Perform testing in both automated and manual testing forms based on team needs

Skills

• Active communicator in both written and verbal forms.
• Demonstrated ability to work as a self-starter in a collaborative, self-directed manner in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working in agile product teams (Scrum and Kanban).
• Interest in software system internals, e.g. “how things work”.
• Has a strong orientation towards delivering results incrementally.
• Experience improving quality through a combination of tests, dependency testing, and monitoring.
• Self-starter who can collaborate effectively with the members of the product development team (product managers, architects, developers, etc.) and with cross-functional QA team members.

Required Qualifications

• 10-12 years experience in the following areas:
• Experience testing financial/banking applications
• End to end/functional UI & API test case creation & automation
• Writing automated end to end/functional API tests leveraging frameworks like TestNG
• Designing test strategies, test plans, and test cases from requirements, design documents and specifications for testing across different platforms and with an emphasis on automation
• Strong mastery of either Javascript or Java
• Direct experience creating, maintaining, and extending jobs used to run automated tests in Jenkins
• Git and modern principles of deploying software across distributed teams via source control
• Experience writing & maintaining Docker images
• AWS (i.e., ELB, Elastic Beanstalk, SQS, RDS PostgreSQL, S3)
• Experience in creating tactical and adaptable automated test frameworks for web applications or other software Deep understanding of how browser-specific internet traffic works in modern web applications, including HTTP, SSL, and JSON Test case management tools: Test Rail, Zephyr, etc
• Agile development fundamentals and the Scrum framework
• Behavior-driven development & testing methodologies
• Selenium
• Cucumber

Nice To Have Qualifications

• Experience with nightwatch.js
• PHP
• Experience testing windows (VM) based applications
• Web-based application fundamentals (CSS, jquery, HTML)