Quality Assurance Lead
New York, NY, United States
Position Summary
The Quality Assurance Manager understands the QA and Testing needs of the Institute. This resource will bring mature QA, DevOps and Automation experience to the Agile Development team. The Quality Assurance Manager will develop, maintain, and integrate Test Automation to be executed as part of the CI/CD pipeline. This resource will be responsible for the administration of all QA related technologies, including Regression Testing, System Testing, Static Code Analysis, Code Vulnerability Scanning, Test Data Management, Performance Engineering, Defect Tracking and UAT. The QA Specialist will need to demonstrate strong leadership qualities and excellent communication skills.
The Quality Assurance Manager is hands-on, and will be challenged to design and implement continuous improvement throughout the Software Development Lifecycle. The candidate will be part of the Production Excellence team and need to have a solid understanding of Devops and Agile practices. This resource will work closely with the DevOps team in the rollout and administration of CI/CD technologies and processes.
Essential Functions
Design, set up, and configure automated testing framework
Integration of automated testing tools into the CI/CD Tool Chain
Work closely with the Development Lead to define QA and Testing Standards for internal and Third-Party applications
Work with Lines of Business and Business Analyst to establish appropriate user acceptance test cases/suites, based on requirements
Work with Development team on the development of Automated Testing Scripts and Policies
Administration, maintenance, and configuration of Automated testing tools, scripts and Policies
Implement regression testing and smoke testing into the Build and Deployment processes
Implement and maintain Test Data Management processes, standards, and automation
Monitor and updates Security Vulnerability Testing and associated policies
Work with Development teams to implement and maintain Static Code Analysis and Unit Testing processes and technologies
Design Performance Engineering processes and implement Performance Testing framework
Work with Development team to implement QA processes and validation in as part of the Release Automation processes
Ongoing maintenance of Defect Tracking processes and Technologies
Coordinate Test environment maintenance with the DevOps/environment management lead
Participate in Test environment issue resolution working closely with Development and DevOps
Participate in Continuous Improvement practices
Manage, train, and mentor Quality Analyst
Defining and tracking Quality metrics for Application Development efforts
Information Security Responsibilities
Attend/complete assigned information security training by the designated completion date.
Read and adhere to published ISMS policies and procedures.
Report timely any observed violations of ISMS policy - or known encroachments on information security - to your department leader and/or the Information Technology Department.
Education and Experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
7+ years background in IT (preferably in Quality Assurance, Agile Development, and DevOps)
Other Qualifications
Highly motivated, enterprising, excellent team player, also able to work autonomously
Knowledge of Quality Assurance procedures and processes
Software Development and Automated Test Script development experience required
Experience with Test Driven Development processes in support of Agile Development
Experience maintaining Test Environments running on Windows and VMWare
Experience with setting up and configuring automated testing tools
Experience implementing and administering automated testing tools including Selenium and QC
Experience working with Static Code Analysis and Vulnerability Scanning tools such as SonarQube and Veracode.
Experience working with Performance Testing and Monitoring tools
Experience Maintaining and Automating Test Data Management and Test Data Masking
Experience with integrating test automation as part of Continuous Integration.
Experience working closely with Software Development and DevOps to troubleshoot Environment issues
Capable of enforcing processes and procedures
Ability to document issues and remedies/solutions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders
Strong desire to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes and capable of enforcing processes and procedures
Internally motivated, able to work effectively both independently and in a team environment
Experience with .NET development environments a plus
Experience with CRM Development and testing a plus
Experience with TFS and other ALM, Orchestration solutions
Understanding of DevOps technologies and frameworks
Knowledge of Software Configuration Management (build/deployment) concepts
Experience with Infrastructure Operations and management of Pre-production environments
Prior experience with both Manual and Automated Test execution