QA Test Lead

QA Test Lead (Onsite)

Agency Name: Discount Tire

Place of Performance: Scottsdale, AZ

Period of Performance: 12+ months (Long term)

Scope of work: The Test Lead takes on the testing responsibility for project's success. The role involves quality and test advocacy, resource planning and management, and resolution of issues that impede the testing effort. They will lead the testing teams to deliver project testing efforts. The Test Lead will collaborate with Project Managers, and workstream leads to promote, implement and deliver comprehensive testing services for each phase of the software development lifecycle, instill quality assurance methodologies and standards, and apply QA best practices. General responsibilities include development and oversight of project test deliverables, collaborating with project team to drive development of test scenarios, test cases, and scripts while ensuring data quality; develop and report project testing metrics; acts as a consultant in the adoption and utilization of testing methods, tools and practices across the enterprise.

Responsibilities:

• Support quality processes by reviewing testing documentation and adhering to those standards and processes
• Works independently with minimal supervision performing project tasks
• Leads communication regarding Quality processes and results
• Assumes testing oversight of projects in areas of testing deliverables and timeline adherence, risk management, Business testing workshops and status reporting
• Identify and mitigate Quality risks as they arise. Communicate quality risk status to all stakeholders in a timely and cogent manner
• Assist project resources by answering questions related to testing processes, procedures and services
• Ensures the identification, analysis and documentation of defects
• Facilitates project defect triage meetings
• Facilitates meetings and conference calls; coordinates and leads test training when applicable
• Mentors, coaches and trains testers when needed
• Completes work in a timely and accurate manner while providing exceptional customer service
• Review project solution design, conduct feasibility analysis and determine gap in technical solutions for testing
• Collaborate publish standards and provide governance for all the deliverables for 3rd party vendors
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• 8 years of quality test lead experience well versed in project deliverables such as test strategy, timelines, risk-based testing, root cause analysis, etc.
• Strong knowledge of industry standard testing types Functional, Non-Functional, System Integration, System, Business (UAT, End to End, etc.) testing
• Multi-faceted leader
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Skilled in various methodologies Agile, Waterfall, iterative, etc.
• Excellent organizational skills ability to access work needed to be done and come up with a plan and timeline on completion
• Should be detail oriented along with organized, able to track multiple aspects of a project simultaneously
• A strong working knowledge and implementation practice of software development lifecycle and testing tools
• Strong enterprise integration experience
• Collaboration skills are critical
• Leadership and listening skills must be exceptional
• Ability to quickly ramp up, will need to be creative on delivering on a fast project schedule
• Good understanding of various testing tools and technologies used for test automation
• In depth understanding of different functions of testing like functional, non-functional and security
• Comfortable with Onsite-Offshore collaboration and communication model.

About Us:

InterSources Inc, a Certified Diverse Supplier, was founded in 2007 and offers innovative solutions to help clients with Digital Transformations across various domains and industries. Our history spans over 14 years and today we are an Award-Winning Global Software Consultancy, solving complex problems with technology. We provide strategic and technical advice, and we have expertise in areas covering Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Migration, Custom Software Development, Data Analytics Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions, Cyber Security Services etc.