Lead QA Engineer

Key responsibilities:

• Lead a team of QA engineers and SDETs, driving quality initiatives, establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met
• Participate in all aspects of QA product lifecycle: scoping, strategizing, test case creation and execution including feature, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Review technical requirements, author detailed test plan, and test case documentation
• Identify, isolate, and replicate software defects, research root causes, debug issues, and propose regression tests to Client reoccurrences
• Coach, lead and mentor junior/new team members and coordinate internal knowledge sharing sessions
• Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional, design specifications, and requirements
• Escalate any QA issues to cross-functional teams and push for a suitable resolution in a timely manner
• Constantly seek opportunities to improve our quality and testing approach
• Promoting QA productivity through automation, tools, and other best practices
• Report and drive increased test automation coverage in all areas
• Ability to handle multiple projects and adapt to priority changes in a fast-paced environment
• Lead the overall QA Activities, plan and assign tasks to the team to meet project deadlines
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Developers, Content Managers and Release Engineers to deliver projects on-time, ensuring the highest product quality standards
• Participate in interviews, hiring, and on-boarding of new hires

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience testing both web and mobile applications
• 2+ years of experience in leading quality engineering teams, in a highly hands-on role
• Solid understanding of development lifecycles, testing methodologies, and QA processes
• Hands-on experience with test planning, test designing and execution, implementing and maintaining quality test automation.
• Coding experience with object-oriented programming languages, preferably JavaScript
• Experience with automation scripts using tools like, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Protractor, Mocha, Jasmine, TestNG
• Good understanding of web technologies including HTML, CSS, XML, JSON and REST APIs
• Good understanding of modern front-end frameworks such as Vue.js, React, Angular
• Experience with databases, API, backend systems, and mobile testing (iOS/Android)
• Experience with GitLab and continuous integration build system such as Jenkins
• Ability to lead QA teams and mentor junior team members
• Ability to motivate people, instill accountability and achieve results
• Ability to articulate vision and manage deliverables
• Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including effective presentation with a dynamic attitude