| Duties & Responsibilites : | -We are looking for a technical, highly-motivated, extremely organized hands-on Quality Assurance Lead with an Automation QA background.
-This is a key team player in the successful development and integration of a multi-channel application for a top national retailer.
-This resource should be creative, resourceful, experienced in the Agile SDLC, and have been part of programs/projects with multiple system integrations both internally in the company, as well as externally with multiple vendors.
Responsibilities/Deliverables that the resource will be responsible for:
• Reports to Platform Program Manager
• Collaboratively coordinates testing of program solution with business requirements & designs.
• Responsible for delivering iterative test results/progress
• Works collaboratively with integrated enterprise systems to complete end-to-end testing
• Develop, Maintain, and Execute test scenarios, both manual and automated
• Creates and maintains test plans, cases/scripts, traceability matrix and various testing checklists
• Manage test data requests for platform teams to support development and QA testing
• Responsible for platform environment validation throughout the deployment process
• Produces statistics and track metrics on QA testing against the plan and drive improvement ideas based on those metrics
• Proactively manage automation roadmap and drive team towards continual improvement of the automated regression testing suite
• Proactively identify ways to improve quality of the platform and mentor Quality team members
• Support UAT activities with platform Business Analysts and Business Owners
• Supports enterprise teams for security and performance testing
• Work closely with Business Analysts, Architects, Project Managers, and Developers
• Collaborate with other Mobile platform QA leads and develop testing strategies to create consistent, repeatable thorough testing processes through Mobile.
• Continuously improve QA practices to improve team’s productivity and product quality, including Agile practices.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Testing in SOA (Rest/Soap)
- Webservices Testing
- Driving implementation and maintenance of automation and manual testing– 3 years
- Agile methodology background – 3 years
- Backend/ db testing – 3 years
- Middleware experience – 3 years
- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Experience with Automation Tools such as QTP: Required
- Good understanding of reading and modifying XMLs.
- Knowledge of testing with web services and troubleshooting issues
Industries that would produce fitting candidates:
- Mobile
- Retail
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field- preferred
- Experience in managing and leading QA teams
- 3+ years experience in leading Quality Assurance teams driving implementation and maintenance of automation and manual testing efforts
- 2+ years experience in working on Mobile platform projects (Android, Tablet)
- 3+ years experience with direct management of team resources.
- 5+ years in Quality Assurance and working within software industry in an Agile development environment, building web based systems.
- Experience with cross-functional and remote teams for delivering quality products on a tight schedule.
- Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical co-workers and customers
- Knowledge of testing with web services and troubleshooting issues
- The ideal candidate will have experience in the Retail market sector
- The ideal candidate will have experience managing 5-8 concurrent projects
- The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, capable of managing their own workload as well as the workload of others on the team.
- Must be comfortable in an agile, fast-paced, evolving environment
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