Quality Assurance Team Lead

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and oversee the members of the QA Team.

• Take complete ownership for testing requirements across all our products.

• Make recommendations based on industry standard to the existing QA policies, tools, and procedures and recommend improvements as necessary.

• Participate in reviews of business requirements and application designs.

• Provide technical testing evaluation estimates and risk analysis on various projects.

• Review and analyze system and project requirements and determine appropriate procedures for testing applications

• Coordinate test schedules, work, and resource plans; manages progress of all test activities against plan.

• Create systems & business relevant automated test scripts, test plans, data and procedures and execute automated test scripts for most complex projects.

• Design, create, and execute manual test cases for functional testing, integration testing, regression testing and exploratory testing (when necessary)

• Render user acceptance testing support.

• Report bugs accurately and concisely, and timely follow-up to resolution.

• Communicate technical details of bugs and automation results to developers

• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.

• Mentor & train team members on test automation solutions

• Learn new technologies, techniques, and processes to contribute to the ongoing improvement of the QA team.

Qualities We’re Looking For

• At least 3 years of experience in a software QA role. 

• Self-motivated and a good team player.

• Excellent understanding of Quality Assurance principles and processes.

• Good understanding of Software Development process including analysis and design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution.

• Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, communication and documentation skills.

• Excellent logical, analytical and root cause analysis skills.

• Experience of working within an Agile development process (Scrum or similar).

• Working experience using test automation tools/applications frameworks like Selenium, Appium, Robotium, etc.

• Working experience in different testing methodologies: Blackbox, Graybox, regression, functional, exploratory, etc,

• Working experience in manual testing: design tests, execute tests, manage test execution, create test report

• Working experience in Security and Performance Testing

• Ability to analyze the requirement (both from a testing and end user point of view) to derive test scenarios and test cases.

• Eager to learn new skills and grow professionally and personally.

• Technical leadership experience preferred, but not required.

• Experience in API testing using tools like Postman is preferred, but not required

• Familiarity with programming languages like Python or JavaScript is preferred, but not required.

• Experience with relational databases and querying tools such as SQL Server is preferred, but not required