QA Test Lead

QA Test Lead

Visa status: U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. Tax Terms: W2, 1099 Corp-Corp or 3rd Parties: Yes San Antonio, TX

About the QA Test Lead Role

The Quality Assurance Lead will work with multiple sprint teams and product owners to define key KPI's to monitor and test the quality of the applications. This will include functional/non-functional test planning, developing test scenarios, success/acceptance criteria, monitoring, execution of test scenarios, and analyzing results. This position requires working experience on SQL, Snowflake, Unix, Control-M, DataStage.

Responsibilities

• Work across multiple teams to define and implement end-end testing strategy
• Lead the test assessment, creation of the test strategy, test plan, test schedule, test case development, execution, and fixing for both functional and non-functional testing requirements (i.e. performance, usability, penetration testing, etc.) in Agile.
• Actively participate in agile release/sprint planning, user story creation, and acceptance criteria, leading to test case development on Snowflake, Data Build tool, Control-M
• Define testing stories, acceptance criteria, test bed requirement, success criteria for EPICS, Features and Stories working closely with product owner, solution architect and the sprint teams using JIRA / DevOps
• Continuously coach and mentor team to achieve the program goals and release commitment
• Directly engage with development team, business analysts and product owner to understand requirements
• Ensure appropriate level of functional, regression, automated, usability, and unit testing is performed on applications to mitigate the risk and ensure a smooth release.
• Define, track and publish metrics including defects, defect counts, test results, test status, defect root cause analysis, mitigation plan on daily to stakeholders
• Frequently communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to team members and management
• Facilitate test execution status, defect meetings, manage work assignment and monitoring with global teams
• Work with Product and Development teams to identify test requirements and plan testing for features and builds.

• Drive continuous process improvements to increase the efficiency of the testing by epic/feature.
• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems (MIS), or related technical discipline
• 6+ years hands-on experience with test automation with Agile and DevOps (CI/CD tools like GitLab, qTest DevOps, JIRA, Jenkins).
• 6+ years of experience in writing complex T-SQL
• 8+ years of experience in working in data warehousing projects specially ELT
• Experience developing automation scripts and implementing the automation testing using tools such as Cucumber, Selenium with Python, SQL
• Experience developing test strategy, test plans, test procedures, test data
• Experience leading multiple projects and managing multiple teams.
• Experience in Snowflake – nice to have