Role : Regional QA Lead
Location : US
Experience : 10 years
Job Description
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A Quality Assurance Lead reports to the Engineering Manager and is responsible for leading multiple QA teams / projects and being hands-on at the same time.
You will work closely with Engineering and Product teams to create QA strategies and test plans, identify and troubleshoot defects, and play a key role in the continuous improvement of our testing processes and standards.
The right candidate has strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, is self-driven, detailed while clear and concise, and focused on consistency and standardization while embracing change in an iterative, ever-evolving organization.
This role will require the candidate to implement the appropriate automation techniques to meet the short and long-term goals of the engineering organization with accuracy.
Skill Set Required
- Quality assurance expertise : 3 years minimum leading QA teams and 10 years of hands-on testing experience in manual and automation testing.
- Proven experience creating test strategies and test plans.
- Expertise in identifying the scope of automation and driving automation test development.
- Experience with API testing.
- Technical experience : Proficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript, Java, Python, and tools knowledge.
- Analytical skills : Analytically examine bug reports, prioritize necessary tests, and streamline application functions through automated testing processes.
- Attention to detail : Being detail-oriented is required as they test web and mobile applications to find ways to improve them and isolate problems.
- Interpersonal & Communication skills : Good interpersonal skills; must be a team player; need strong verbal & written communication skills to effectively collaborate with the engineering and leadership teams.
Tools Knowledge
- Automation tools : Playwright, Selenium
- Mobile automation testing tools for Android, iOS.
- Continuous Integration tools : Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub
- JIRA : Defect tracking and task creation tool
- Confluence, SharePoint
- Any Test Management tool
- CI / CD QA automation : Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for automation workflows.
ResponsibilitiesStrategy & Reporting (70%)
- Document & implement overall testing strategy including Automation strategy for the team.
- Define, implement & monitor testing processes for all phases of testing cycle.
- Develop milestones, test plans and publish reports.
- Identify automation opportunities and actively champion to increase automation coverage / shift left.
- Onboard QA team and provide training.
- Represent QA in all forums & act as focal point of contact for the testing team.
- Monitor performance of the team while looking and improving ways of working.
- Partner closely with engineering and product leads and collaborate on finding efficiencies and identifying areas of improvement.
Execution (30%)
- Actively participate in planning and strategy meetings for key initiatives.
- Work with engineers and project leads to triage and prioritize issues for resolution especially for strategic initiatives.
- Analyze requirements, use cases, design docs, etc. and provide inputs from a testing point of view.
- Create test plans for strategic initiatives.
- Create, execute and review test cases for strategic initiatives.
- Create and maintain automation tests and contribute to the automation framework.
- Log, review and triage defects for strategic initiatives.
- Help with production issues / live site testing when needed.
Other Qualifications And Certifications
- Experience in ecommerce applications is preferred.
- Work experience with offshore / nearshore / onshore model is a must.
Experience With Scrum Is Preferred
Familiarity with Elixir and the Phoenix framework is preferred.
Key Measurement
The success of the role will be measured by the delivery of projects to time and quality and the efficient communication, management, and support.
Job Circumstances
Be willing to work extended hours as required by the role and be available to occasionally implement systems out of business hours.
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