Quality Assurance Team Leader - Software

Job Description

Main Purpose of Job: Lead the quality assurance team and ensure that the QA team engineers are on the right track all the way in the project/product, resolving conflicts across team, review the schedules and plans, mitigation of the risks, checking quality in phases, update management, build a challenging and motivation environment.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in business requirements reviews and work with business analysts/developers to fully test application/system changes.
• Testing new and updated systems for bugs and other issues.
• Scope the required tests.
• Estimate the test effort and team.
• Check the status of each assigned task daily and resolve any issues faced the team members with their tasks.
• Ensure that each team member is optimally occupied with work (i.e. each QA Engineer should not be too overloaded or too idle).
• Escalate and obtain resolution of the issues related to the test environment and team.
• Plan, organize and lead team meetings and ensure action is taken based on the team discussions.
• Provide feedback to the development team and ensure the work is carried out in accordance with the schedule and the quality requirements.
• Sending clear status to the QA Manager and Project Management.
• Have team meetings at appropriate time to understand & review the current risks and motivate team to resolve the same.
• Provide advice on how processes and procedures may be improved to promote quality assurance and control on future system implementations.
• Provides resolutions to extensive range of complicated problems.

Job Requirements

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of software testing principles, testing processes and methodologies.
• Attentive to detail, highly organized and able to multi-task.
• Experience in testing Desktop Applications, Mobile Applications and Web Applications.
• Familiarity with the principles of technical design and programming, both OOP and procedural.
• Excellent communication skills and adept in reporting test status on timely basis to QA Manager, Project Manager and Head of R&D.
• Works under limited direction.
• Independently determines and develops approach to solutions.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of databases (SQL Server, Oracle etc.), structured query language and stored procedure.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
• Minimum 7+ years of QA and SW testing (QC) experience
• 2+ year as lead QA/QC, managing teams of 4+ testers
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project and time management skills with a proven ability to focus on priorities, solve problems and meet deadlines
• Excellent command / highly proficient in spoken and written English