QA Lead

As a consultant with our client, you’ll receive:
- Highly competitive market hourly rates
- A 6 month contract with a strong probability of extension
- Remote interview process


Responsibilities
Our client is looking for a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer. The team is responsible for application architecture, development and innovation of new feature development to support consumer solutions. In this role, you will provide guidance and standards to Quality Engineers to provide the highest quality for each release. Support high quality automation test engineering, QA best practices, test strategy and principles. Perform other duties as assigned.

- Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates; prioritizing work with general direction/minimal supervision.
- Expertise in, and owning the testing capabilities across multiple programs/projects and communicate and influence the stakeholders to have collaborated and unified development, processes and initiatives across organization.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to understand project objectives, gather requirements, design automated tests, troubleshoot issues, and implement scalable test solutions.
- Develop high quality test engineering best practices, test strategy and principles.
- Devise and execute training, where appropriate, to develop and elevate skills within the team.
- Partner with Software Engineers, UX/UI, quality Engineers, Product Managers to deliver high performing quality customer experiences that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity.
- Participate in automation script code reviews and provide guidance on automation best practices.
- Responsible for helping to identify gaps and needs of the agile team; including resources, skills, resource allocation, task assignment and delegation.
- Coordinate various test-related activities for project delivery; identifying task dependencies, test schedules, creation of test data and utilization of test environments.
- Develop and monitor test metrics and provide timely communication to key stakeholders on a regular basis.
- Research, identify and implement newer testing technologies.
- Assess readiness and deviation of project performance based on identified risks and testing results.
- Consistently demonstrates regular, dependable attendance & punctuality.

Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or similar.
- 8+ years of experience in QA and/or Development.
- 4+ years of experience as QA lead
- 4+ years of experience in using various quality tools and paradigms.
- 2+ years of experience programming in any object oriented programming language.
- Exposure to CI/CD Tools and frameworks.
- Experience assessing risk for determining appropriate levels of testing.
- Demonstrated skills using code repositories like GitHub.
- Experience with JIRA for project management and defect tracking.
- Experience leading ambiguous situations, dealing with IT issues and coming up with effective solutions to ensure project deliverables on time and within budget.
- Experience with a variety of test tools and software testing practices, including developing, implementing, maintaining and managing manual/automated testing systems and environments.
- Experience assessing risk for determining appropriate levels of testing.
- Ability to clearly write technical specifications and strong estimating and planning skills.
- Able to effectively communicate across teams and roles.
- Excellent presentation skills to present ideas and work to the team and organization.
- Experience presenting testing topics to quality assurance peer group internal and external to work.
- Insightful and logical problem isolation and solving skills.
- Results driven and goals-oriented.
- Walking, seating, talking, working on a computer, using a phone.
- Perform in a very focused and methodical manner with good time management skills.
- Able to independently adapt and thrive through change.
- Ability to lead projects individually and mentor team members.
- Ability to lead and take ownership of testing process and implement them.
- Strong collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Ability to handle multiple large projects simultaneously.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs.


Summary
If you are a QA Lead and the prospect of joining a dedicated team intrigues you, then this role with our high-profile client could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Apply below or reach out to your Randstad representative for more information.


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