Lead Test Engineer

Role:

The Lead Test Engineer is responsible for independently leading Test Engineering teams. You will be responsible for developing test plans and implementing those plans against the corresponding test procedures. You will be accountable for the development release and maintenance of test procedures.

You will be a part of team that is responsible for ensuring that all applications and systems meet defined quality standards. The focus is going to be on major areas including (a) functional testing (b) nonfunctional testing and (c) test architecture and enablement. Other key focuses include regression testing browser testing performance testing capacity and stress testing resiliency testing environment management services and infrastructure testing. Develops conducts and evaluates testing processes working closely with developers to remediate identified system defects. Indepth knowledge of automated testing tools and quality control and assurance approaches including the creation of reusable foundational test automation framework for the entire organization.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for system integration testing including automation of newly developed or enhanced applications.
• Responsible for reviewing requirements and design artifacts developing unit integration and system test cases ensuring extensive test coverage for our cloud application.
• Play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete results.
• Lead develop and advise on test automation strategies and provide critical feedback in requirements design implementation and execution phases.
• Develop and improve next generation Test Engineering Automation solutions in a Continuous Integration environment.
• Define design development documentation and maintenance of tools and Automation Frameworks for current and next gen Software Platforms/Frameworks as part of an Agile team
• Partner with different collaborators Product Management Application Development DevOps and other technical teams.
• Supplies to the Automation development of endtoend regression.
• Works closely with business and AD domain experts to continually improve depth and breadth of knowledge for assigned applications/systems.
• Responsible for Project Coordination and Technical Management tasks

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Proven min experience of 57 years with automated unit and integration testing
• Bachelors degree and/or equivalent experience preferred.

Talents Needed for Success:

• Experienced in Agile/Waterfall onsite/offshore work model and coordination.
• In depth knowledge of the software implementation lifecycle (specifically the testing model methodology and processes)
• Experience with Test Engineering methodologies and Test Automation Frameworks
• Expert and hands on automation at all software layers (e.g. UI services APIs etc.) as well as CI/CD technologies (e.g. Cloudbees Jenkins Cucumber Git JUnit Jira etc.).
• Sophisticated java / Selenium development skills with significant experience applying those skills in test environments.
• Extensive experience with testing modern scripting languagebased components.
• Experience with frontend & backend testing.
• Experience in writing sophisticated SQL queries.
• Experience with JIRA Microfocus ALM Bitbucket Git and Jenkins
• Demonstrable ability with test data management is a plus.
• Detailed understanding of smoke testing blackbox and nonblack box testing as well as regression testing
• Experienced in an Agile/DevOps environment in collaboration with BAs product owners and application developers.
• Requires the ability to work well with both business clients and technical team and the ability to work independently both individually and as part of a team.
• Experienced in mentoring more junior Test engineers verifying work products and providing mentorship as needed.
• API testing Python and AWS experience in a plus
• Requires a functional understanding of distributed and/or mainframe test environments