QA Lead
Boston, MA, United States
Job: QA Lead
Location: on-site 2x/week in Boston
Duration: Contract to hire
Job Description:
As QA Lead you will ensure the highest level of quality of applications, working with the cross-functional team in verifying that the product meets the business requirements. Be part of the Agile team and be a partner with Product Owners understanding the business goals, the users' expectations, the business requirements
Work closely with the Developers, Dev Architects and Content System architect in understanding the technology, the application architecture and integration with third-part software
Work closely with the Project Managers in estimating test efforts, in monitoring test progress, establishing quality gates and in advocating quality goals
Lead the test execution during all phases of the SDLC, write test plans, test cases, report bugs, execute tests and develop QA dashboard with test metrics
Supervise off-shore QA Engineers
Design and execute a test automation strategy
Work with DevOps for test environments and CI/CD pipeline
Collaborate with the other QA Leads in standardizing the QA practices and tools, and for any testing area impacting other applications
Experience: 4+ years of experience in Leading software testing projects
7+ years as QA Engineer, creating test plans, test cases, test data, traceability matrix
Experience in defect lifecycle making sure that defects are logged, reviewed, prioritized, triaged, and verified when solved
Working with Agile methodologies
Working with remote Agile teams crossing multiple time-zones
Supervising, coaching, mentoring QA Engineers
Strong Experience in Functional, Regression, End to End testing, manual and automated.
Experience in Load, Performance, Security and accessibility testing
Testing multi-layer Web applications and databases
Creating and maintaining Automation framework and integration in CI/CD
Skills: Strong Selenium/Java experience
Strong Postman and RESTAssured experience
Test Management and Bug tracking tools
Load and Performance testing tools