Senior QA Lead

  • Brooklyn, OH
  • Posted 18 hours ago | Updated 6 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Leadership
Motivation
QA Management
UI
Workflow
QAS
Estimating
Testing
Shared Services
Programmable Logic Controller
Collaboration
Partnership
Performance Management
Project Management
Preventive Maintenance
Exploratory Testing
Communication
Analytical Skill
Reporting
Quality Assurance
Organizational Skills
Automated Testing
Test Execution

Job Details

Role: Senior QA Lead
Location: Brooklyn OH
Duration: 12 months plus extensions

Top things looking when reviewing resumes:
  • Program Level Leadership Experience
  • Program/Conversion Reporting
  • Working across development, QAS and Lines of Business.
  • Testing Traceability
  • Defect Triaging
  • Leadership
  • Clear Communication
  • Solution and Data Driven
  • Self-Motivating
Description:
  • The Senior Quality Lead coordinates all of the planning, execution and recap functions involved
    in testing and injecting quality safeguards into the development and deployment of software
    applications.
  • This individual leads other QA professionals and fosters collaboration and
    cooperation with the greater project team in the pursuit of delivering a high quality product.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
  • Leads the QA team for a large transformational project and may lead multiple quality
    leads and is answerable to all activities conducted to ensure quality.
  • Oversees the quality in all phases of the project including Requirement review, test
    script preparation, and test execution and recap.
  • Identifies gaps and confusions in the user interface and/or the workflow , etc. and
    highlights to the project team the risks associated with technical debt, schedule
    slippage or other areas of concern.
  • Schedules resources, estimates QAS portion of project estimates and forecasts,
    manages testing needs with Shared Services, manages the PLC tollgates, calculates and
    manages traceability and test coverage, assist with test result triage, reports on overall
    application/project health and intercedes, when appropriate, with remediation efforts.
  • Creates a collaborative partnership with the Tech Lead, the PM, the Client and other
    project participants and actively engages in grooming sessions, status meetings and
    other project meetings.
  • Highly valued as a thought leader contributing to the final
    product.
Competencies and Skills:
  • Command of the types and number of resources needed for each effort and the ability
    to maximize their assignments to generate the greatest impact.
  • A process optimizer - - sees the opportunities for automation, can spot tasks and tests
    that do not add value and can eliminate waste to optimize the resources at-hand.
  • Expertise in exploratory testing and guiding others in exploratory test paths to
    maximize coverage.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Able to lead in all phases of the project and can communicate with others in the
    organization about the status and risks of the effort in detail.
  • Solid analytical skills to assess and report on quality metrics, app health, and project
    risks.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.
Experience:
  • Three plus years of experience in quality assurance with keen organizational skills, an
    ability to both delegate, lead and "dig in" with extensive knowledge of quality
    assurance practices and methods.
  • Understands the test automation coverage and guides exploratory testers to fill the
    gaps.
  • Intimate understanding of an application domain, the release schedule, the user
    community, and can work with the other members of the project team to drive
    delivery.
  • Understands how to assess an application's functionality by risk, impact and importance
    in order to prioritize the test execution and concentrate test coverage appropriately.
    KeyCorp Internal
  • Domain knowledge or the ability to quickly understand the core functionality an client
    experience of an application.
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