QA Lead Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a QA Lead to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Communicate and Track any quality risks, gaps or issues;
- Communicate the status of testing initiatives to the stakeholder groups and lead triage meetings;
- Verify and review software and business requirements;
- Continually improve the testing infrastructure, tools, and processes;
- Have responsibilities in the process of traceability of requirements through to functional tests and defect lists;
- Own the process of creating metrics to measure and monitor product performance;
- Establish, document, and enhance QA processes; train team members on those processes;
- Define quality metrics and implement measurements to determine test effectiveness, testing efficiency, and measure the overall quality of the Product;
- Candidates must lead the planning and execution of testing for the conversion of admin systems;
- Plan, develop, and execute test strategy across products and platforms;
- Work on building a Quality driven engineering culture that helps ship products rapidly and with good confidence;
- Act as the primary point of contact for all quality aspects of releases;
- Develop, maintain, and operationalize test plans;
- Implement and evolve QA processes to get effective test signal and scale testing efforts across multiple products;
- Work with engineers and project leads to triage and prioritize issues for resolution.
Requirements:
- Experience testing web and client server based applications;
- Knowledge of Oracle Database concepts and testing using SQL or other database platforms;
- Must have expertise with Databases (SQL, Oracle, DB2);
- 5+ years of hands-on Quality Assurance experience in which you played a key role in building and enhancing a QA function;
- 3+ years of quality assurance and test engineering experience;
- Work in conjunction with the Application Lead to Ensure Software QA practices related to Design Review and Code Reviews are being performed;
- Oversee the development of the System and Integration Test plans;
- 5 years of experi ence in defect tracking tools;
- Experience developing test deliverables like test plans, test cases, test data, traceability matrix;
- Ensure that defects are correctly captured, reviewed, prioritized, and triaged and that Break-Fix resources are assigned to resolve defects;
- Report to AAP Director/PM and track overall status and QA governance;
- Onshore and offshore co-ordination;
- 5 plus years of experience in testing, automation, performance and load and security testing;
- Experience with product development life cycle and test cycles (e.g. unit, integration, smoke), including test approach and case review;
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering discipline or equivalent experience.