QA Lead and Tester

QA Lead and Tester

LOCATION: HYBRID Albany, NY

Job ID: PRD_518

EXP: 7+

Working for the QA Lead, this role will manage and oversee quality assurance activities initially related to the Fair Hearings System then move on to other program areas within the project. Manage adherence to the program-level testing strategy, quality assurance processes, artifacts, and tools; Manage quality assurance team and deliverables; Liaison with relevant stakeholders, including subject matter experts, users, executive teams, etc., to ensure that projects meet business needs; Oversee adherence to the program-level testing strategy, quality assurance processes, artifacts, and tools; Review deliverables from vendors to ensure system testing and delivery are in line with business needs, as described in the requirements; Produce reports to Management and Project teams regarding status of testing efforts; Manage test environments, test accounts, and test data according to best practices. Manage blended teams of State and vendor resources. Other duties as assigned.

Mandatory Qualifications

• More than seven (7) years of experience working on complex projects with 2 or more years in a leadership role.

• More than seven (7) years of work experience in quality assurance, managing testing across multiple high-profile projects, with complex functional domains, within a matrix organization, while reporting and presenting to stakeholders and senior management.

• A minimum of one year working in an Integrated Eligibility System Program in various workstreams including EECM in a Health and Human Service setting.

Additional Qualifications

• At least seven (7) years of work experience developing testing products including test plans, test cases, automated test scripts, and defect reporting documentation.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with defect tracking and test planning tools such as Jira, Jira-related plug-ins, or HP Application Lifecycle Management/Quality Center.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience in Java scripting or related programming languages within the context of developing automated test script solutions.

• Three (3) to five (5) years of work experience with creating reports and dashboards for test metrics using Jira or other tools.