Our client, a Health & Wellness company, is looking for a Lead Engineer, Quality Assurance to join their team. We are looking for a dynamic and self-driven Lead Engineer, QA who can take on and overcome challenges in a fast-paced technology organization.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the testing efforts of a diverse team of Quality Engineers across multiple workstreams
- Architecting testing solutions, helping to resolve technical problems and challenges, and establishing and applying testing standards.
- Develop customized testing strategies that maximize test coverage while minimizing execution effort.
- Act as a quality champion by striving for excellence and driving continual improvements within the team.
- Identify risks and proactively mitigate and communicate them
- Serve as a subject matter expert on the Company's Enterprise Tech applications
- Regularly communicate and disseminate information; collaborate with Project Managers, Product Managers, Software Engineering Leaders, and others to ensure smooth integration of QA into the SDLC
- Research and stay up to date on the latest tools, technologies, trends, and approaches with the QA space and incorporating the ones that make sense.
Qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent
- A minimum of 6 years of experience in the Testing/QA/QE field with a passion for quality and a demonstrated track record of continuously improving
- A strong passion for quality, an attention to detail, and the proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate and articulate to stakeholders and management across multiple business functions
- Proven history of successfully coordinating and executing all aspects of testing efforts from project inception to post launch
- Strong risk management skills and a knack for recognizing and anticipating things that would eventually turn into problems (problem avoidance vs reactiveness)
- Experience executing Functional, Non-Functional, Integration, System, Regression, and End to End testing
- Ability to develop a testing strategy that is customized and optimized for the situation and communicate it effectively to stakeholders
- Strong knowledge of web application architecture and extensive experience in testing web applications
- Deep understanding of how to leverage automation in testing efforts and the ability to identify tests that would be optimal candidates for automation
- Ability to effectively utilize issue/defect tracking tools such as JIRA and test case management tools such as TestRail
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with E-Commerce and one or more of the following technologies - ATG, EBS, SOA, AWS is a plus