Job Title- Lead QA Engineer Location: NJ or Chicago (Remote) Duration: 12 Months Rate: DOE
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE We are looking for a skilled and motivated Sr engineer to lead the quality assurance across multiple scrum teams in a major Auditing and Taxation Service Provider organization. Our software products provide management, analytics, and telemetry services to enterprise customers. Our Software Development Engineers use their skills and passion to solve engineering problems of moderately complex scope with limited project direction input. You would be required to lead by example, solve complex engineering problems and work with a large team located globally. You should be able to
- Apply advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert.
- Frequently contribute to the development of new ideas and methods.
- Work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.
- Lead and/or provide expertise to functional project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives.
- Act as an expert providing direction and guidance to process improvements and establishing policies.
- Provide mentoring and guidance to junior team members.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Lead a team of 5-8 talented working either onshore or offshore, motivated engineers and help them deliver while remaining hands on throughout the time.
- Work closely with the Back end, UI, Data Engineers and Product Managers, to write and groom stories, and create and execute test plans
- Create and Manage Automation testing frameworks for applications (web, client, server, and cloud) using JMeter and Selenium
- Design and implement automation to test microservices and components, and data processing pipeline deployments
- Interpret design specifications and develop high-value test plans and automation. Translate user stories to Manual/automated tests that can be reviewed by peers
- Responsible for the review, setup and execution of test plans and test cases, both manual and automated.
- Identify the failures and root causes of issues to ensure the delivery of a high-quality product to customers. Participate in continuous delivery and deployment, take ownership, and strive to become a better problem solver
- Participate in software and system performance analysis, tuning, and demand/capacity planning for business critical, large scale, and high availability applications.
- Work with global teams to capture requirements and co-architect solutions.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to less- experienced staff members.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
- 7+ years strong QA experience.
- 3+ years’ experience leading and mentoring other engineers.
- Experience with automating tests with tools such as TestNG, Junit, Selenium WebDriver, Java w/ Selenium Libraries or equivalent.
- 4+ years of QA/testing experience in microservices and components, and data processing pipelines
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.
- Knowledge on SQL/NoSQL databases. proficient to write queries and validate the data.
- Knowledge on any Cloud related Technologies like AWS, Azure, GCP
- Delivery of one or more large-scale enterprise products is a plus
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