QA Lead
Summary
| Title: | QA Lead |
|---|---|
| ID: | 47957 |
| Location: | Minneapolis, MN |
| Department: | Information Technology |
Description
For one of our multiyear projects we are looking for a QA Lead out of Minneapolis, MN.
We are looking for a QA Lead to manage a large international project. Customers are located in Australia. The technology stack includes a Web application with a huge SQL data store. The downstream systems have batch jobs run on CA Workload, with Informatica for ETL transformations executed on the SQL Database, creating flat files and XMLs for downstream applications.
This is a highly visible position who will be building relationships and leading the QA portions of the project across multiple geographies. Candidate uses his communication skills, good analytical skills and the intent to get into details every day to work with international teams based across USA, India and Australia.
Requirements:
Responsible for leading test efforts and test resources, including large complex QA projects/programs (multiple sub-projects) across functional areas or multiple systems.
The ideal candidate for this position should be hands-on and will possess most of the requirements below. This candidate should be able to give an example for most of the requirements below from previous experience.
Works closely and collaboratively with IT, Business Teams, internal, and vendor resources to ensure that projects are delivered with quality by adhering to standards, processes and procedures and applying industry best practices where appropriate.
Coach and mentor other QA resources, and provide workload management support. Drives and implements opportunities to uplift QA capability.
Understand that there will be changes to scope and adapt to Change. Guide the QA team to adapt and move the QA delivery forward for changes. Help the Project team understand QA effort and timeline variance for the change and be an advocate for correct QA processes.
Provide high level and detailed estimations for new work, project current and future resource needs
Ability to understand complex business and technical requirements. Work with the BAs and developers to get detailed information on requirements and design to help the QA team move forward
Ability to work with teams in multiple time zones and join conference calls / meetings occasionally as early as 7 am Central time or as late as 7 pm Central time
Ability to come up with test strategy and test plans, create project QA reports, create a test closure / end of test report documents
Conduct test strategy, test planning, defect triage and test closure meetings with various audience
Understand Databases and data flows to help the team with set up of test scenarios / data when needed
Understand job execution in CA Workload and help the team run batch jobs when needed
Be an advocate for automation, Assess prospective automation candidates and provide guidance to project team on the benefits, Once approved, work with the automation team to get it implemented.
Plan regression strategy and work with the team to execute regression for each project
Work with PMs on time management and get allocation for projects
Additional Requirements Specific to This Role
-Understands data (SQL, ETL) and automation (Selenium in this area)
-Forward-thinker, understands new technology
-Team leadership is required, but this is not a coordinator/manager as the primary skillset
-Able to do hands-on work, but as an exception.
We are looking for a QA Lead to manage a large international project. Customers are located in Australia. The technology stack includes a Web application with a huge SQL data store. The downstream systems have batch jobs run on CA Workload, with Informatica for ETL transformations executed on the SQL Database, creating flat files and XMLs for downstream applications.
This is a highly visible position who will be building relationships and leading the QA portions of the project across multiple geographies. Candidate uses his communication skills, good analytical skills and the intent to get into details every day to work with international teams based across USA, India and Australia.
Requirements:
Responsible for leading test efforts and test resources, including large complex QA projects/programs (multiple sub-projects) across functional areas or multiple systems.
The ideal candidate for this position should be hands-on and will possess most of the requirements below. This candidate should be able to give an example for most of the requirements below from previous experience.
Works closely and collaboratively with IT, Business Teams, internal, and vendor resources to ensure that projects are delivered with quality by adhering to standards, processes and procedures and applying industry best practices where appropriate.
Coach and mentor other QA resources, and provide workload management support. Drives and implements opportunities to uplift QA capability.
Understand that there will be changes to scope and adapt to Change. Guide the QA team to adapt and move the QA delivery forward for changes. Help the Project team understand QA effort and timeline variance for the change and be an advocate for correct QA processes.
Provide high level and detailed estimations for new work, project current and future resource needs
Ability to understand complex business and technical requirements. Work with the BAs and developers to get detailed information on requirements and design to help the QA team move forward
Ability to work with teams in multiple time zones and join conference calls / meetings occasionally as early as 7 am Central time or as late as 7 pm Central time
Ability to come up with test strategy and test plans, create project QA reports, create a test closure / end of test report documents
Conduct test strategy, test planning, defect triage and test closure meetings with various audience
Understand Databases and data flows to help the team with set up of test scenarios / data when needed
Understand job execution in CA Workload and help the team run batch jobs when needed
Be an advocate for automation, Assess prospective automation candidates and provide guidance to project team on the benefits, Once approved, work with the automation team to get it implemented.
Plan regression strategy and work with the team to execute regression for each project
Work with PMs on time management and get allocation for projects
Additional Requirements Specific to This Role
-Understands data (SQL, ETL) and automation (Selenium in this area)
-Forward-thinker, understands new technology
-Team leadership is required, but this is not a coordinator/manager as the primary skillset
-Able to do hands-on work, but as an exception.
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