QA Lead with POS & Mobile Applications experience

LOCAL CANDIDATES OR THOSE IN NEARBY STATES WILLING TO RELOCATE IMMEDATELY ONLY AT THIS TIME. POSITION REQUIRES OFFICE PRESENCE 3 DAYS PER WEEK AND ABILITY TO TRAVEL LOCALLY BY CAR TO STORE LOCATIONS. VEHICLE AND VALID DRIVERS LICENSE IS REQUIRED.

• Candidates might be required to perform real runs testing (which involves driving around with the apps) as and when required.

Job Description

• Working closely with QA Center of Excellence to implement improvements.
• Coordinating with other members of engineering teams to ensure project goals are met.
• The QA Team Lead must be able to take on leadership responsibilities and influence the direction of the automation effort, and its schedule and prioritization.
• The QA Team Lead will work with management, developers, and quality assurance personnel
• goals.
• Providing technical support for existing automation systems by troubleshooting malfunctions and performing maintenance tasks
• Develops automated software quality test suite to ensure the applications have appropriate
• automation coverage.
• Build and execute unit, component, acceptance, integration, load, security, scalability, usability, and platform tests.
• Leads the maturity and improvements to the QA automation framework using industry standard tools and approaches.
• Leads in developing enhancements to QA standards, guidelines and procedures as needed
• Leverage and enhance coding standards and best practices for automated QA code
• Guide team members on automation best practices, as well as effective use of test automation tools
• Implement Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) approaches
• Keep up the automated quality assurance code/systems with the evolution of the software products
• Participate in analyzing Major Incidents and Emergency Change controls to identify opportunities to automate software quality test cases to reduce or eliminate those
• Design, implement and execute cross-system integration tests and regression tests for each release
• Build and manage automated QA test suites which can be handed over to Reliability and NOC teams who can execute these at-will in Production environment for operational validation of systems
• Help manage appropriate test environments.
• Keeps abreast of current and emerging technology and trends in automated software testing
• Help evaluate new tools, products, upgrades and vendor/multivendor solutions
• Conducts code reviews to ensure consistency, quality and reusability of test automation artifacts
• Define and manage test automation code artifacts across multiple systems
• Ability to communicate quality metrics of the applications to leadership.
• Ability to coordinate with Leads and development managers.
• Provide hands-on leadership and mentoring of junior team members. This includes performing
• reviews of other engineers within your team.
• Support the team and delivery managers in planning program-wide efforts.
• Participate in interviewing and onboarding of new staff.
• Perform People "HR " Management responsibilities.
• Be an advocate for positive organizational change by understanding and promoting emerging organizational models and demonstrate how this supports and improves Client's business goals.
• Support the estimation of upcoming work and coordination of work across peer teams.
• Demonstrate features and provide status of managed services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance program with Agile practices
• 7+ years of experience in Automated Software Quality Assurance practices including BDD/TDD
• 7+ years of experience of Secure Development Lifecycle processes
• Experience with automating QA for eCommerce, Point of Sale, and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.
• Experience with identity and access management including user registration, access provisioning, role-based access control and user de-provisioning
• Experience with automating QA for Mobile websites and Native Mobile applications (iOS, Android, Windows)
• Experience with high-availability architectures in a large heavy-traffic environment
• Experience with the implementation of automated testing process, tools and services including JUnit, QTP, Selenium, PlayWright, node.js, grunt.js, Cucumber, SoapUI
• Experience testing web applications developed in JavaScript, CSS, XHTML
• Experience in automated testing of backend applications and APIs developed in Java/C# with SQL, NoSQL, ActiveMQ and caching technologies such as Hazelcast
• Experience in automating SQA for apps running on various underlying components including Apache web server, NGINX and IIS that use SOAP, REST, and custom web services with JSON and/or XML as payloads
• Must have experience operating within Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) environment
• Must have experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Jenkins (or similar) and pipeline scripting (Groovy)
• Must have experience with source code control systems such as Git, Github, Stash etc.
• Must have good understanding of network topologies and technologies
• Must have good understanding of data management practices including good experience with SQL
• Experience in Automated QA tool evaluation, selection and implementation
• Experience in the design and implementation of complex technical solutions
• Experience with full life cycle software deployment using Agile practices