QA Lead

Job Title: QA Lead

Location: Brooklyn, NY 11201

Duration: 12 Months

About PruTech

Founded in 1998, PruTech is dedicated to problem-solving, creating solutions, and maintaining strong partnerships with its clients. PruTech serves a diverse list of clients in different industries from government to finance, retail, and manufacturing. PruTech has offices in New York City, Washington DC, North Carolina, and two nearshore offices in Mexico City and India.

With over 20 years of Information Technology and system integration experience, PruTech provides multiple ways to assist organizations with future technology requirements including:

Project based system integration

Custom software solutions

Package implementations

Consulting and advisory services

Big data and analytics

Nearshore and offshore services

SCOPE OF SERVICES:

The QA Lead will work with the Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) team and share responsible for leading all testing modifications to the NYC Design System and rollout across nyc.gov guided experiences because of enhancements, defect fixes, platform upgrades, and software maintenance, among other things. Responsibilities include reviewing requirements for completeness and testability; preparing and coordinating test plans; assigning tasks to other QA analysts; tracking the progress of the team members; developing and recording test cases; executing test cases and analyzing and reporting results; mentoring team members with appropriate tools and OTI processes and standards.

TASKS:

• Understand the details of the NYC Design system and guided experiences.
• Ensure the QA process is organized according to OTI standards and best practices
• Contribute to the review of requirements and other project artifacts with the project team; provide QA comments and sign off.
• Develop and own: Test Strategy & test plan; Detailed Test Cases; Test Scripts; Traceability matrix; Test estimates; Progress reports for test execution; Defect reports.
• Provide estimates for required testing efforts and collaborate with the Project Manager to have testing tasks properly scheduled.
• Load and maintain test scripts into the test management system, and participate in loading and maintaining requirements in the appropriate system.
• Maintain necessary documentation in the SharePoint project site and other shared repositories.
• Assign tasks to QA Team members and track their progress.
• Acquire/create/verify test data.
• Execute test cases according to the test plan.
• Work with project teams to track, report, and resolve defects using the test management system.
• Assist the support team in deployments.
• Contribute to identifying appropriate test cases for sanity testing and regression testing.
• Identify test scenarios suitable for test automation and automate them where applicable; Contribute to identifying scenarios for performance testing.
• Make sure all assigned tasks’ statuses are properly reported and documented.
• Execute all other QA tasks throughout the SDLC.

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• At least 8 years of experience in the field of Quality Assurance with a minimum of 5years as a QA Lead working with complex enterprise solutions.
• Experience testing public-facing software
• Experience in using SLDC management systems (like Azure DevOps, QC, or JIRA) to track and execute test processes. Experience using Azure DevOps (former TFS, Cloud TFS, VSTS) is preferred.
• Experience with UI test automation tool: Selenium WebDriver using Java.
• Experience in covering requirements with test cases.
• Must be able to assist in the validation of technical requirements for integration between system components via real-time and batch data transfers.
• Experience with the specifics of functional and compatibility testing of browser-based UI (HTML-based).
• Understanding the specifics of test tasks for HTML-based UI vs. desktop applications or “thick clients”.
• Understanding the purpose and use of the test tools for APIs/Web services, like SoapUI or Postman.
• Understanding the specifics of various text file formats (CSV, XML, JSON) and their use.
• Understanding the purpose and scope of the performance testing process and tools.
• Must be a proficient computer user with experience using standard productivity tools, including Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio, for document development, data preparation, and handling.
• Must be able to take strategic direction from executive management and participate in strategic planning activities throughout the lifetime of the project.
• Must be able to see tasks through to completion without significant guidance.
• Strong issue resolution and investigation skills.
• Ability to articulate and document the steps taken to resolve an issue.
• Excellent oral and written communication/soft skills and the ability to clearly articulate to all project members and stakeholders; must be a team player who works well with technical and non-technical resources.
• Must take initiative, be a decisive decision-maker and show confidence in decisions made. 
  
  

  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.