QA lead

Direct client: Kroger

Position: QA Lead

6 months contract

Onsite/Hybrid Accepting candidates only locals to: ( Cincinnati OH; Boca Raton FL; Charlotte NC; San Jose CA; Portland OR and Deerfield IL)

Must have skills:

This will be a technical QA Lead that is well versed in test automation as well as core QA process (test coverage root cause analysis defect management and metrics). Selenium/Appium and Karate (preferred) will be the tools utilized.

QA lead supports quality assurance programs and processes in alignment with QA strategy and deliverables in an Agile/Scrum environment. The Quality Engineer III is responsible for providing feedback on artifacts developed during requirements and analysis phase within client projects; authoring test cases/scripts; and performing test execution for both project and support related activities. The Quality Engineer III is expected to leverage technical expertise to develop maintain and execute automation tests. As well the Quality Engineer III should help identify opportunities to improve application code quality by increasing unit and integration test coverage. The Quality Engineer III would also be engaged in leading testing efforts involving coaching mentoring code reviews and contributing to improvements to frameworks tools processes and best practices.

Specialization/Role Requirements for Lead

• 5 years of recent relevant QA lead experience
• 1 years of relevant experience in test automation (Graphical User Interface/ Service Oriented Architecture/ ETL) utilizing tools (Selenium Appium Mocha Test NG CA Dev Test Rest Assured IDQ DVO etc.)
• 1 years of relevant experience in Object Oriented Programming (Java)
• Assess quality and test process maturity level.
• Define/implement strategies to implement QA best practices.
• Ensure that projects follow prescribed software development life cycle standards.
• Strong understanding of collecting analyzing and sharing QA metrics
• Experience in creating sharing implementing and driving roadmaps.

Skill/Experience Requirements

• 8 years of QA experience
• Experience working with CI tools (Jenkins TeamCity GitLab etc.)
• Experience driving QA processes and deliverables in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Proficient in defect tracking and analyzing root cause utilizing tools (Jira Rally etc.)
• Strong understanding of automation and performance concepts and approaches.
• Experience working or leading remote teams.
• Understand and utilize riskbased testing technique.
• Provide leadership to quality engineers i.e. mentoring onboarding training etc.
• Strong experience in test environment and test data management
• Strong communication leadership and collaboration skills to challenge the norm.

Key Responsibilities

• Support quality assurance programs and processes in alignment with QA strategy and deliverables in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Responsible for providing feedback on artifacts developed during requirements and analysis phase within client projects; authoring test cases/scripts; and performing test execution for both project and support related activities.
• Leverage technical expertise to develop maintain and execute automation tests.
• Help identify opportunities to improve application code quality by increasing unit and integration test coverage.
• Engage in leading testing efforts involving coaching mentoring code reviews and contributing to improvements to frameworks tools processes and best practices.